Flight to Chicago

: Norm and  Leola Neiderer went with us in the airplane on a trip to visit the brokerages that we sold spuds to. Before we got to Wyoming there was a black cloud that didn’t look very big. Jess started to fly through it and all at once the plane was pulled straight up in the air. We bumped our heads on the top of cab and then all at once we fell straight down. The instruments went crazy.

      We visited Garth and Jolene in Denver, then on to St. Louis Missouri, Indianapolis and Chicago. It was seven below, when we left Chicago, with a strong head wind, and the wings started to ice up, so we had to land at Rock Springs. Norman had worn a Stetson cowboy hat, the entire trip, but when he stepped off the plane, his hat was gone forever.

       When we got to Palisades , the ground visibility was limited and Jess didn’t know which canyon to fly up. We had only gone a short way up one canyon, when Jess pulled the plane straight up and said, “That canyon is not the right one.” I could see Jess’ face turn white, before we got back high in the air again.