I didn't get a heads-up in my e-mail on the aerotow for Champaign-Urbana this year, did I miss it? Hope not, weather was gorgeous the past week & today, rain predicted all thru the coming week.
My amazing discovery was a new flying site near my home. I've been flying off a scraggly vacant lot only 6 minutes from home, but it's getting crowded and this month surveyor stakes started blooming in the field, signaling this is the last season there. Drove along a little bit further, found a bigger, better field with knee-high soft grass to land on. The road sign next to it, I took for a sight from Above: "Happy Landings Drive" I sierra you not. Here's hoping it stays vacant for a few seasons at least. Anyhow, if heading to the JR Aerotow in Central Illinois, a fun stop for the family is the train museum just outside of town, for about 60 bucks, you can drive the diesel engine yourself, for much less, you take a 15-minute ride into town on the train's private line, get an ice cream, and ride back. Many piec es of rolling stock to see, including the Shedd Aquarium's "nautilus" car, a Pullman converted to haul live fish to the museum from the gulf coast. A really nice museum on the outskirts of Peoria is called 'Wheels Of time", a little bit of everything, cars, planes, inventions, you can touch stuff!. 45 minutes south of Springfield Illinois on route 55 is a huge car lot/museum where all the exhibits are on sale, I added a ton of pictures to my antique hood ornament collection, some really rare stuff there. Also this year, the new Abe Lincoln Presidential Library & museum opened in Springfield, and it's every bit as high-tech entertainment as something from Disney EPCOT or Universal Studios, most impressive stuff. 45 minutes from the Aerotow site, can't miss it. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
