On 2007-04-08, Jay Honeck wrote:
We've flown coast to coast, Canada to Mexico, for the last 12 years,
and we have seen a lot of beautiful sights. There are way more than
five flights to make before you die -- but these are my Top 5. Can
you add yours?

Well, by definition, you have to do them before you die, so the 'before
you die' bit is kind of redundant :-)

Your list is a worthy list - Oshkosh should definitely be done at least
once (if only to experience that kind of traffic density, and how the
rules on what constitute VFR tend to get moderately flexed).

But I'd substitute the coastal flying with flying in the mountains - get
some mountain flying training, and go to airstrips *in* the mountains.
The video doesn't do it justice, but I did just that in August 2005:

http://www.alioth.net/Video/BackCountry.mp4 (use VideoLAN Client, which
is free at http://www.videolan.org if your media player isn't up to date
enough to play MP4 video)

We got up at 5 in the morning, and flew the Cessna 180 up to Idaho from
my friend's local airfield in Salt Lake City so as to get there before
the day started really heating up. Flying into Lower Loon was quite an
interesting experience, but not as interesting as flying out of it again
:-) (860 feet of usable runway at about 5000 ft above mean sea level,
surrounded by mountains - you really don't want to be there if it's even
slightly windy!)

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