So.... How?

When I first decided I would visit OSH, or more correctly, Airventure one day I was amazed at how many different possibilities there are as how to experience it. It is complicated by it's success to a large degree. I mean any smallish place will struggle to support an influx of approximately one million visitors over the course of a week. This obviously puts strain on the local infrastructure and means that simple things like finding accommodation becomes a bit of a sprint race. Many hotels and motels have standing reservations which makes it all seem a bit impossible to the newbie.
Accommodation comes in many options from Hotel to Motel, from university halls of residence to camping on the airfield. All with their own level of complexities and unknowns for the newbie. From the beginning I changed my mind every year and still never really decided on the likely outcome. Just as well I never actually went!
Since this was going to be 'the year' we had to come up with something that seemed doable. After much discussion with many people we finally decided to hire a camper van or more correctly an RV in Americanspeak. With the RV we would camp on the airfield at camp Scholler. This, we believe will give us a reasonable level of accommodation while enjoying the atmosphere on the field amongst the other aviation buffs.
Still many questions remain, just how good is the shower block? Will I have to see parts of a Ginga that could scar me for life?
Is driving the thing going to be hard? What about shopping and groceries? Will we want to go off field? If so, how?
These are just a couple of the questions we have. Follow us along and see how we get on.. Hopefully we will add info to help others in other years.
We launch in 2 days so strap on a computer (an iPad if you have any sense) and join the Skycouch Potatoes as we visit the airshow of all light aircraft air shows.


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