Oh, well, you can still take the SL-C out for a night run! I can imagine that view through that panoramic cockpit...it would be like piloting a fighter jet as you come over than hill and down into Brownwood, I bet!
I've been to Zephyr, love the town, I'm from a small town and can't wait for the chance to move away from the urban insanity that has become Houston, TX! I own a vacation/project/retirement home in SW Kansas and the path I choose when I drive there is from Houston to Austin to Brownwood to Abeiline to Shamrock to Canadian and then through the OK panhandle and into SW Kansas at Liberal. From Liberal the "High Plains Hacienda" is only 90 miles.....probably about a 45 minute cruise in an SL-C. I can imagine the way the coyotes would howl at the sound of that 3-rotor engine you're using......believe me, nobody out in that desolate corner of the world has ever heard one of those!
Zephyr is a bit bigger than the small SW Kansas town in which the "High Plains Hacienda" is located. It is on a U.S. Highway, U.S. 160, and it's 4 blocks long, 3 blocks wide, and has a total population of 118. I tell my friends that the conversation goes this way as you approach and leave the town: "Gee, that's a nice little town we're coming to, wasn't it?"
But the peace and tranquility is mesmerizing....I can sit outside and watch the traffic go by in the evening on U.S. 160--two, maybe three cars an hour. Rush hour is a bit different, it lasts about 30 seconds and probably includes as many as 10 cars. West of the HPH, there's a 127 mile stretch of road between Springfield, CO and Trinidad, CO, the last time I drove that stretch we saw 14 vehicles, and two of those were dirt bikes with kids riding between farm fields to check on the livestock. I envision a late night banzaii run on that 127 mile stretch in a 40, just to see how quickly I can travel that far---the road is so straight you could have laid the center line with a laser!
Love hearing about your adventures, Brian.....keep it up!
Doug