When Your Daughter Wants to Fly to an Air Museum

Seize the opportunity

When planning something to do on a weekday we both had off together, Audrey asked to fly back to the Tillamook air museum. We had been new years day, just a few weeks before, but this time visit the museum itself and have lunch.

I've made this flight a number of times, but it really is a nice stop. Only 20 minutes from Twin Oaks, nice view of the coast range on the way over, and some great coastal scenery. Can't get board of that.

Driving out to Stark's we encountered some increasing fog, forcing us to consider destination options reachable by car. Within a 1/4 mile of the airport, we were greeted suddenly by blue sky and clear visibility.

Climbing out before turning west, we looked over our shoulders to the east still covered in fog. Audrey has over flown clouds and fog in the past, but was really interested by the realization that we were circling out over the fog we had been driving through a short time earlier.

As we gained altitude approaching the coast range, my little girl next to me was also very interested in the current number of feet off the ground, and how that compared to altitude flown on our trip to Japan (commercial flight), or distance from home around the block.

The museum was enjoyable, as always, but the highlights were sharing time together having lunch, talking about the history and parts of the aircraft on display, listening to Audrey give details of our flight with the staff, and pointing out interesting things below in-route.

After returning to Twin Oaks, we were able to spend a little time chatting with Betty, and left for home with a good size bag of her peanut butter cookies. Cookies that didn’t last the weekend.