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I'm sorta sorry for covering Buffett again as I know a lot of people hate him, but no big deal. Its hard to find people that write lyrics that are actually worth listening to and he just cranks em out. Also, I'm a serious Buffett fan to the point where I based a college application essay off one of his songs (I was not accepted to that school)
'Volcano' [video | lyrics] is one of Buffett's more well known/overplayed tracks, but it's still one of my favorites. I've listened to it a ton of times and just recently realized that I didn't understand one of the locations he lists off at the end of the song as places he despises. Here is the full verse:
"But I don't want to land in New York City
I don't want to land in Mexico
I don't want to land on no Three Mile Island
I don't want to see my skin a-glow
Don't want to land at Camanche Skypark,
or in Nashville, Tennessee
I don't want to land in no San Juan airport
or the Yukon Territory
Don't want to land no San Diego
Don't want to land in no Buzzards Bay
I don't want to land on no Ayatollah
I got nothin' more to say"
Some googling turned up an interesting and very old thread on the straightdope message board[1] and revealed some cool info about "Camanche Skypark". Like all the other sites he mentions, it's real, and it is pretty shady looking. There is a dilapidated airstrip of sorts near the Sierras named Camanche Skypark that is hard to imagine planes carrying musical legends ever landed there. But it turns out Buffett and Jackson Browne were flying in there to play the 1978 Mountain Aire Festival, at Calaveras County Fairgrounds and this place was the closest landing strip to the fairgrounds.
His tour manager says: "As we circled the runway to make our landing, there were stunt planes flying all around us, and off the runway was a plane that had crashed while landing at the strip. This made Jimmy and all of us very concerned."
[1] Yea its not a great 'source' but the accounts seem to all line up as far as the dates are concerned. Incidentally, the story behind the thread itself is pretty interesting as well.
