Thursday, September 10, 1981
64 degrees – Anaheim 6:00 AM
Up at 5 – bfst – Called Karen to have David meet me at gate. Ankle ok with anacin but don’t know. Helen took me to Disneyland Hotel for 6:05 bus to LA airport $6.10
Stop at Beuna Park for pickup. 7:25 Terminal. Bg checked at curb 7:44 on Plane seat 5A – 3:50 min to Dayton at 33,000′. Boeing 727 aircraft. 8:15 push off from terminal. Hazy overcast 8:33 Take off over coast & ocean thro clouds into sunshine. Circling to S. – Catalina Is peek above cloud like cotton batting solid: circling to E – mts above clouds in haze 8:45 – Headed E out of clouds – Palm Springs area 9:00 mts rising out of barren sandy desert – aswsome – Colo R aqueduct thro mt. Alkali lake bed – Parer Co. Colo R 9:10. London Bridge from 33,000′ – 9:16 Bagdad open pit mines – 9:35 mesas – twin Buttes – 9:40 – Bfst over 9:58 – Santa Fe to right. 10:00 Deep Gorge? – Baldy 10:07 – Wheeler Pks. 12,441′ – huge mesas 10:15 square fields more green on mts – less rugged – Cimmaron in rugged area with flat farmland to N. – Section Line Rd obvious 10:36 – Pratt Kans – Lafayette Hildreth’s descendants – Flat irrigated farms. 10:45 Cheny [sic] reservoir – 10:47 Arkansas River 10:50 green fields many rivers 11:06 Kansas City – some wooded areas. 11:18 over Missouri River N of Jefferson City – 11:23 parallel to I-70/ 11:22 Miss & Illinois River 11:25 over Miss 11:50 Terre Haute – Green fields woods – hilly 11:57 Ind. Speedway I-70 R. 40 12:02 Wabash River 12:07 Fountain City to N. Hills Roses greenhouse w side of Richmond. 12:09 Ohio! Flat – green – corn – woods – my kind of country 12:16 Dayton landing. 12:48 take off. Weather clear & 75 in Cols 12:52 Springfield 12:57 Over 270 W 12:59 Scioto & Olentangy 1:00 over 270 W 1:05 Landing.
David arrived at baggage area after I waited about 1/2 hr. He & Hink drove up from Cinci. Got to Marion at 6:00 & they marched in parade. I went to see Mother & she said Mary & Kenny were watching Parade at Church so I went to Trinity – not there but I had a seat with the Cottrells. David took bus back to Cinci.