Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Abilene, TX (USA)
[last flight as a Navy pilot - briefed at 0800 - flew with Mark over to Abilene to do touch and gos - weather was great - a couple more landings back at NAS JRB - last landing ("Naval Aviator, last pass") bitter-sweet - fire trucks sprayed my plane - maintainers dumped icewater on me (kids did too) - lots of photos, video and shaking hands - had to do some meetings for Raul in the afternoon - drove over for my first VA appointment (near intersection of I-820 and I-30) - spent about two hours there (finished at 1700) and then drove home (via I-820) - rested at the house until it was time to go get Katie at the airport (2230 arrival) - traffic OK - but then tried to go in North Entrance and got burned (highway completely closed!) - found my way back to the entrance (side roads) and met Katie right after she got to the bag claim area - used South Exit and got home pretty quickly - stayed up late, talking...]