What is that a go kart?

What I want to do is build my own airplane and fly from AZ to CA. I am going to give myself 3 years and 2,000 hours. I hope to strap myself in and fly to CA before I turn 50. Before I moved to Chandler I never even knew that people really did things like this. My only experience with airplanes was LAX. When we moved to Chandler we found out there was a small airstrip in our neighborhood. When I say in our neighborhood, I really mean in our neighborhood. A couple of people we go to church with have planes in their garages (they call them hangers). They can start up their plane, drive out of their garage over to the airstrip and take off. I had heard and seen small planes, but this was something new.

Wanting friends I got to know Boyd. He is a cop in Phoenix. He has a plane parked on the airstrip. He invited me to go on a couple of flights with him. It was interesting, but I could tell there was some strange addiction to flying that he and others had. I did not have that, nor do I have it now.

On one of our flights we went to a hanger across town. I was so new to flying was still trying to understand what all of the things were that made a plane fly. Obviously there were the wings and the engine, but there were so many other things that were completely new to me. In the hanger were sitting a couple of partially built KR2's. I had no idea what they were. I thought they were go karts. Boyd told me what they were and that the guy who had been building them intended to fly them. I was incredulous. Later that evening I got on the internet and found a website dedicated to the building of KR's.

The original KR was designed and built by Ken Rand. Could I do this? Would I drive Kim crazy before I was done?