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===Business=== Barnstormers offered plane rides for a small fee. Lindbergh, for example, charged five dollars for a 15-minute ride in his plane.<ref name=minnesota>{{cite news| author1 =Bruce L. Larson| title =Barnstorming with Lindbergh| url =http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/52/v52i06p230-238.pdf| work =Minnesota History| publisher =Minnesota Historical Society| date =Summer 1991| pages =231–238| access-date =2015-03-26| archive-date =2014-07-01| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140701053607/http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/52/v52i06p230-238.pdf| url-status =dead}}</ref> However exciting and glamorous, it was not an easy way to make a steady living. To make ends meet, the barnstormers—including Charles Lindbergh—often had to moonlight as flying instructors, handymen, gas station attendants, etc.<ref name=pbs/> Barnstormers often traded plane rides for room and board, both for commercial lodging and in private homes.<ref name=minnesota/>
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