July 29, 20196 yr When I moved to Napa, we were a hick town, not considered much worth a visit, and even more challenging, without a car you could not go anywhere, let alone get to an airport. This man, who I knew because he eventually located his airporter/tour/charter bus company close to a hotel I came to manage, put Napa on the charts as a place for all people, from rich and great to just the average Joe, as a place to enjoy from time to time. I left Napa, but Don has never left my memory or the memories of Napans and especially, those of us who could have a career in tourism, and later building the IT tourist infrastructure we have today, like myself. He also helped link Napa to the Vallejo SFO bay ferry and our wine train as well, so he was into planes, trains, automobiles, and any other means of communication, which is what transportation, especially flying, is part of. John https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/napa-schools-say-goodbye-to-don-evans-a-man-who/article_b48534d2-7fa0-551f-b970-2f8fc7966b13.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-2
July 30, 20196 yr Not exactly a hick town ion those days John. It was the home of the State Mental Hospital. Noel Edited July 30, 20196 yr by birdguy The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
July 31, 20196 yr On 7/29/2019 at 8:55 PM, birdguy said: Not exactly a hick town ion those days John. It was the home of the State Mental Hospital. Noel I did not want to bring that up...... That hospital was horrific from what the patients that made it out alive told me. "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" the movie described it I was told. I learned from the mentally ill, since I live in a senior and mid to low income part of town, that Mental Hospitals should just let the patients rest, rather than trying to reprogram them with all such psychobabble they use. We pilots learned to communicate in the direct, ATC way, and I feel pilots are better handling mentally ill people than the way psychology has become today. It is because we see the details that the pscyhorabble misses, because they learn their rabble by trying to memorize books, whereas we old geezer pilots just use the "stick and rudder", which I feel came from President Teddy Roosevelt, who was a distant cousin in my family tree. John
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