I've done more flying than racing this year. A charter member of a flying club we started last year, I've been enjoying the change. We've recreated the Reno Air Race, did an air rally following Route 66, followed the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul in helicopters, "Sand and Snow" - from a point in west Africa over the Sahara over the Himalayas to a city in east China using any aircraft you like (I used a P-39 stripped of military equipment and fitted with a P-38 engine and modern instruments). In our recreation of the Australia Air Race of 1975, in which you could use any aircraft which actually competed, many of us decided, as an adjunct to the race, to fly from our home airports to Perth, Australia. I flew a 1938 Beech D17 from Columbus, OH, through the Pacific Northwest, through Alaska, across the Bering Strait, south through Siberia, Kamchatka, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and into Australia. Had to stop for fuel roughly every 700 miles; thought I would have to turn back from Siberia til I found a small airport 920 miles away; leaned the engine to the most economical cruise I could and hoped for the best. Landed five hours later with less than seven gallons of fuel remaining.