Stuck!! Part 2

True to form, our airplane decided it was time for an unscheduled maintenance stop even though we are a thousand miles away from our home field mechanic Kent. I noticed oil all over the nose wheel fairing, dripping onto the asphalt and down the strut. Fortunately Goodland has an excellent shop including chief mechanic John and newest member of the team Levi. We pulled the plane out of the wind into a hangar, and the guys determined that the O-ring seal on the nose wheel strut was blown. While we all ate lunch in the airport cafe along with the many racers still here, Levi and the team pulled the nose wheel (during which time the plane looked really pathetic!), cleaned it all up, replaced the O-ring and refilled with oil and air. Good to go! Thanks so much guys for your help. Meanwhile, the sky at Goodland is blue and cloudless (with gale force winds of course!), but we know that on the route forward it's low clouds and frontal thunderstorms. Someone sent Barb a photo of the ramp at Columbus which sits under a low grey overcast and is pouring rain in sheets. So here we still sit, looking for our window!