Monday, September 07, 2026

Huntington

Job texted last night and wanted to go flying this morning. So I got up around 7 am and got ready and met Morgan out there at Kokomo. I pulled out the T-6 and flew us to Huntington. Met up with Job and Curt Lewis and those T-6s, and we went up and did a 3-ship with a "phantom 4". It mostly went well except for me and crossunder signals that I goofed up, but flying wise it went well. Came back in and I flew Bob H's T-6. It has a manually locking tailwheel, something I haven't flown before in a T-6, so that was different and interesting. The locked tailwheel acts more like a normal tailwheel. The controls feel looser, but otherwise it was just another T-6. T-6 #18 to be precise. That's kind of fun.

Morgan and I got back, I had her fly us home, I put our T-6 away, and then we went to Culvers because we were starving. Sat and talked for a couple of hours. Kaylee was stalking me and she had me bring her some ice cream, so I brought Steve a milkshake too as he'd been working outside all day in the sun. 

The rest of the evening I'm just watching "The Runner" and getting ready for tomorrow's flight to Erie, Pennsylvania in the 340 with Logan.

Nothing else...

Oh yeah. My urinalysis during the blood work came back and said I had nitrites and bacteria...aka a UTI! I haven't had one of those since I was like 21 that I can remember. I didn't notice much so I kind of ignored it for a few days, but then I googled it and there's absolutely no other reason for those findings, and you don't want to let that stuff go. So I did a virtual doc visit with the walk-in clinic in Kokomo at 11:30 pm. Filled out the form and figured they'd just send me antibiotics or something. Instead, they put an actual doctor on a video chat with me who asked me legit, actual questions. I answered, she verified any meds I'm on, any allergies, all the things, and then she prescribed antibiotics and sent them to CVS for me, where I picked them up this afternoon. That was super easy and painless. I started them tonight. This morning I woke up to my Oura ring telling me there were several biological markers that indicated my system had 'major stressors' physically. Temperature is up, heart rate is up, etc. In other words, I have an infection. So. I started the antibiotics today and hopefully in a few days it'll feel better and clear up. The power and wonder of modern medicine!

Tomorrow is Erie, Pennsylvania in the 340 because the Cirrus is still down for maintenance.

Also, a deal has been made and we will be keeping the 172RG and the RV. We will be painting the RV with a Checkertail scheme.

Morgan in the back today

More photos from Marion fly-in





Me from the front of Bob's T-6

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