Socrates'N Suitcase

Seventeen years ago, October of '89 to be exact, fighter pilot Casey Finnegan and I, the author, flew a 90hp, 1946 J-3 Piper Cub about 1700 miles from North Dakota to California. It was the ending of a total of four round trip flights starting in 1985----Pomona to Detroit Lakes, Minnesota and return.

In Detroit Lakes, the Cub went through a metamorphosis! Bingo! We were flying a float plane from the "Land of a Thousand Lakes", from June to early October.

Our ground speed, while covering what seemed like half of the country, was about 1/10th the speed of sound---76mph!

In the Piper Cub it took us, flying only under strict VFR (visual flight rules) three days with two RON's (remain over night). If we were flying our jets, it would have been 2 hours, 23 minutes!

But we has a hell of a lot more fun!!

As you read the map and study our stop overs, you will see Casey and the author purposely by-passed Las Vegas. Maybe it was our age, or lack of self-discipline, or experience---or sumthin'---but we didn't have the money to lose at the tables, or spend on the lovely, buxom, vigorously full-bosomed young ladies!!

So, we probably saved our money, our health, and----our marriage!