Monday June 30

Our day to fly home. We met Alison and Linda for breakfast. A local resident volunteer tooke us over to the airport about 8am. We checked weather, not good, but this time we could file an IFR flight plan. We sat and waited while Boston center re-wrote our original route for about 30 minutes, and then 10 minutes after we were in the air, the whole thing got rewritten again. But it was clear on top at 6000' and we had a smooth flight home. We took lots of pix while we flew, but I wasn't as organized and didn't write all the airport names down this time. Arnie and Russell were watching us on Flight Aware software on the computer as we crossed Long Island Sound and headed for home. They were waiting for us at Perkiomen Airport. Russell filmed us landing, and it was a great landing. Russell had a cake for us with one of the pix from our start on it, and that was edible! He made Mary and I collage of pix he had enlarged from the newspaper stories written from interviews we had before we left. It was a great welcome home.