As long as you are enjoying the experience, enjoy the experience
I fly with my neighbor off his grass strip once a month or so. He was a Navy F-4 Phantom pilot and is almost 70. Very professional.
I really wish I had the bandwidth for an RV series. I've helped build a few and the level of workmanship of the kit parts equals retail aircraft.
I am in Yakima, Washington this week. We are setting up our unmanned aircraft services office here. We hired two young, local pilots to get started with training and drone flights.
One of the young men is from one of the families here that own a large amount of acreage and also have a processing plant for hops, apples, cherries and blueberries.
They own a Cessna 182 and I went for a ride yesterday afternoon. Flying out of Yakima on a clear day is really an unbelievable visual experience: Adams, Rainer...you can reach out and touch them.
After the flight we stopped by and talked to these folks:
http://www.cubcrafters.com/carboncubss
Wow.