Tuweep, Arizona. about 2,500' of uneven dirt, usually overgrown. At the uphill end there's a small homemade awning with a picnic table under it. A sign hangs from it that says "Concourse A."
It's a 20 minute walk to the edge of the Grand Canyon, and there are no gaurd rails. No running water. Few tourists. No electricity.
It sits in a small valley adjacent to Mount Trumbull. It's the kind of place you fly to just "be."
Seattle is good. Any place you can fly that has an air museum. (Yipsillanti, Polk City, etc). Oshkosh at the end of July. Any airport with crop dusters.
Bad airports? I went from Rabaul (PNG) to Lae. Rabaul is beautiful, an island paradise (with an oddball approach using a short left turn on final to avoid a volcano). Lae is also beautiful from the air, but a riot was in progress on the ground. We overnighted there, and had to have an armed escort everywhere we went. I sat in the terminal there for a little while; the only food available was either coke or orange crush, and hardtack crackers. As an experiment, I timed how long it would take for something to be stolen. I started with my orange crush. 30 seconds max. Look away, look back and the drink is gone.
Three of us sat at a table in the cafe, such as it was. We heard some noise and stood up to look. Sat back down again, and all the food was gone. Looked over at another little table and several PNG DF soldiers were eating our food. I had a white shirt and sunglasses, they had FN FAL rifles...I smiled and moved on.
Some places just don't cry out "come on back again soon, y'all." That was one of them.
It's a 20 minute walk to the edge of the Grand Canyon, and there are no gaurd rails. No running water. Few tourists. No electricity.
It sits in a small valley adjacent to Mount Trumbull. It's the kind of place you fly to just "be."
Seattle is good. Any place you can fly that has an air museum. (Yipsillanti, Polk City, etc). Oshkosh at the end of July. Any airport with crop dusters.
Bad airports? I went from Rabaul (PNG) to Lae. Rabaul is beautiful, an island paradise (with an oddball approach using a short left turn on final to avoid a volcano). Lae is also beautiful from the air, but a riot was in progress on the ground. We overnighted there, and had to have an armed escort everywhere we went. I sat in the terminal there for a little while; the only food available was either coke or orange crush, and hardtack crackers. As an experiment, I timed how long it would take for something to be stolen. I started with my orange crush. 30 seconds max. Look away, look back and the drink is gone.
Three of us sat at a table in the cafe, such as it was. We heard some noise and stood up to look. Sat back down again, and all the food was gone. Looked over at another little table and several PNG DF soldiers were eating our food. I had a white shirt and sunglasses, they had FN FAL rifles...I smiled and moved on.
Some places just don't cry out "come on back again soon, y'all." That was one of them.
