West Virginia, Ohio and Michigan

In my efforts to entice the members of the engineering Class of 1967 to come to the 50th ONU reunion, I learned that Jack, one of my close mechanical engineering classmates now living in Missouri, is seriously into sports car racing. It so happened that his carclass was among those racing on Sunday, June 4th […]

June 5, 2017: Photos taken at the National Air Force Museum, Dayton, OH Monday, June 5th, Jean and I re-packed the Jeep and headed off to the National Air Force Museum, four miles from our previous evening’s lodgingsin Dayton. The newly updated museum currently consists of 4 major hanger-shaped structures interconnected by a central hall

Jean and I figured it would be a real stretch (for the Jeep and ourselves) to reach our intended temporary base camp in Blowing Rock, NC from Highland, OH. So, we selected the Cumberland Gap area connecting Virginia and Kentucky as a stop for the evening of June 6th. June 6, 2017: Cruising the southwestern

The morning of June 7th we drove through the tunnel that passes under the actual Cumberland Gap from Kentucky to Tennessee and proceeded south to Grandfather Mountain in the northwest corner of North Carolina. It is always a thrill to cross over the ridges of the Appalachian (I like to pronounce it “apple chain”) Mountains

At Jean’s suggestion, we decided to extend our stay in Blowing Rock, NC through June 8th rather than immediately making the run to our home in Cary, NC some 5 hours away. This worked out nicely, providing me an opportunity to catch up on correspondence and both of us time to decompress before completing our