Rich points out:
I flew in from Minneapolis, VFR no less, and you had
to drive from Des Moines? What's up with that? :-)

Tall people get nervous scud-running. Too much negative conditioning bumping
their heads, a problem I've never had. (John is roughly 1.7 Stellas in height)

OTOH, after a day driving under the overcast, we arrived just in time for the
clouds to clear and watched the lunar eclipse from Highflyer's hangar!