"David Johnson" wrote in message om...
Another option would be to ask around the airport you are stranded at
to see if you can find a ride to or near your home base.

Yep, after our bouts with ignition problems we were heading over the bay one day
and she started misfiring. Sure enough, one mag was completely messed up. We
brought her into the nearest airport, and it only took a few minutes of asking around
until we found some guy in a Maule who was willing to fly us home. Amusingly, after
he agreed to do this it turns out he had been at one of the rec.aviation parties at our
house (he was the flight instructor of one of the crowd and they stopped off at our
place in the middle of his instrument XC).