Glad your trip worked out, Jay... And pleased that US customs was not
on a power trip when you reentered the country... After all, we all
know that all muslim fanatics have surnames like Honeck and come from
iowaay with a load of american teenagers...
Yes, Cedar Point is fun to fly past at low altitude, all you can see
are open screaming mouths as the big coasters go over the top...
BTW, ya gotta tell those plains farmers to stop growing them lines of
thunderbumpers out there in the mid lands and then sending them
cruising off to the east... Like you I had to adjust my flight plans
both weekends, and I wound up fetching a load of grandkids back to
Michigan a day early on Saturday because yesterday looked iffy along
the Southern shore of Lake Erie...
Leaving Port Clinton Saturday I was a bit concerned because with 5
people and baggage the Fat Boy was a few pounds over gross on a warm
day... Not to worry though, he popped off well before the half way
point on the runway my personal abort marker and grunted into the sky
at close to his usual climb rate... Both engines are running well in
spite of a steady diet of leaded crud for the past month and a half...
I'm waiting with bated breath for a fouled plug - gonna happen as those
O-320's don't like lead...

It's trips like that I am greatful for having two audio systems in the
plane... The back three headsets are on their own system and it was
noiseeee back there... The Peanut back in the dungeon (seat in the
baggage compartment) was singing 'Old Mcdonald' over and over, and the
middle two seats were having a dumb joke contest, shouted as loud as
they could... About an hour later I realized I couldn't hear any
cacophony over the engines and I turned around... They were all out
like a light - well, they had spent the day out on the Sea Doo's as
well as running around madly... Very peaceful for the remainder of the
trip...

denny