We could have continued on into Oshkosh , but it would have made our arrival time in the afternoon, and we decided we wanted our arrival to be early in the morning, when we thought the airspace around Oshkosh would not be so busy, with everyone else getting there. (Not to mention, my wife thought an additional night at a motel sounded more desirable than an additional night in a tent!) We got up Tuesday morning, anticipating our short hop into our destination, Oshkosh! I had studied all the information I had collected before the trip, as I didn’t want to make any mistakes. We approached Ripon, as instructed, and saw airplanes converging from every direction. Quite a sight! We fell into line and followed along the railroad tracks, and as we approached the spotters on the ground, they gave us instructions to rock our wings to acknowledge they had identified us, and we understood they meant us.