Road trip: Fly-in theater
Do something cultured with your flying partner
Yes, pilots are willing to fly just about anywhere for just about any reason—but this was a stretch for me.
“Watching a musical may not be your idea of a great time—but your wife would absolutely love it. And let’s face it, you’ve probably dragged her to plenty of aviation events that she wasn’t terribly excited about attending,” Harrelson said.
And so, I headed to the Goodspeed Opera House in coastal Connecticut to, get this, see a play. For an uncultured lout like me, the idea of sitting through 2.5 hours of singing and dancing sounded about as painful as a tooth extraction.
But Harrelson, the record-setting, earth-rounding Lancair pilot and his wife, Sue—two people who have been just about everywhere—convinced me this was a good idea.
Our group saw The Music Man, and the experience wasn’t as traumatic as the root canal I was expecting. More important, the spouses seemed eager to return. And since the three-hour round-trip flight to Goodspeed was longer than the performance, that’s still a good deal for this flier.
