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The La Gartia Creek Ranch Fly-in to southern Colorado was on the last weekend of May, organized by the Colorado pilots group — http://flycolorado.org.  The Fly-In was very nice – even though it was a drive-in for me and Susan – forecast thunderstorms on Friday when we needed to arrive.  Lots to do.  Lots of parking, and the field is quite adequate with trike gear airplanes as well as the conventional gear, though my preference would be for conventional as the occasional bit of hi