We left DXR at 5PM on Thursday the 24th. The weather was iffy for the first 50 miles and rather than get run around by New York Tracon we took our chances VFR and headed out to the west at 1700 feet. Once we were west of the Hudson river the ceiling lifted appreciably and we planned on making Wilkes Barre PA.
As we were approaching Wilkes Barre we asked the controller for the weather in Willimasport PA and he replied Clear and 10 so we changed our destination with him and headed on along.
Judy checked the weather on the garmin/XM and we saw that although there was some heavy stuff in the Bradford PA area we were going to be south of it and it was miving north east to our westerly heading.
We decided to go onto Cleveland's Burke Lakefront airport where we arrived in good weather at 8:30PM. The kind folks at Landmark got us a rate at the Hilton Garden Inn downtown and gave us a ride there as well.
Up the next morning at 5:20 we lifted off from Cleveland at 7:30 am enroute Toledo, South Bend Fort Wayne Kankanee Rockford, Janesvill Madison then Oshkosh.
We encountered IMC at Kankanee and climbed to 8000 to stay on top. We checked the weather at OSH and the whole east central wisconsin was marginal VFR to Low IFR. Judy had said she needed to use the laides room an hour back and presented with the possibility of going missed at OSH we diverted to Rockford where we ate lunch used the facilities illed the tanks and headed backout IFR to OSH.
We did the VOR 27 approach into OSHkosh and broke out at 1500 4 miles final. When we switched to tower we heard all sorts of people sneaking in VFR and it amazed me that people would be that cavalier to pick their way along in low seilings and visibilities. Anyway we're here and aside from sunburn we're ok!
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