Never ones to refuse a trip south during the lingering days of a Seattle winter, Hal Bryan, Mike Singer, and I recently flew to San Diego to attend the Mutual Concerns of Air & Space Museums seminar. This year's event gathered together movers and shakers from air and space museums all over the world.

When airplane fanatics get together the lines between work and play blur a bit, but the trip wasn't all fun and games (although rumor has it Hal and Mike made a quick side trip to Sea World, apparently justified by taking a picture of the Mission Bay VOR while everyone else was looking at the fish).

 Hal did a great write-up of the trip, which he turned into this article.