We’re headed home! The trip has been great, but after a couple weeks, I think we’re all ready to be back at home. We had about an hour to head north before reaching the familiar central valley of Idaho. We …
We didn’t make it to the four corners area the night before, so we decided to depart Santa Fe, fly over four corners, then make our fuel stop in Moab (Canyonlands Airport). From there it’d be a short flight to …
The night before in Austin, we decided to fly the next day to Farmington, NM and drive out to see four corners. By the time we left Austin, it was already getting hot. Heading out, I realized that despite being …
Before the trip, Kelly and I joked about not having a detailed plan. She’s a planner, so the flexibility of general aviation is not necessarily a plus. We had a plan to get to Montgomery, but not really a plan …
Whaddya know? Another beautiful morning! We’ve really lucked out with the weather to this point, aside from the first day.
At this point, the mornings were becoming something of a ritual. Kelly was inside feeding Cooper and watching him crawl …
After a great few days with the Baers, it was time to keep going. The weather was nice once again as we were loading up in Erie.
Though I’ve flown over Kansas a couple times, I hadn’t landed there, so …
After our unplanned overnight stop in Boise, we were eager to continue. A much cooler, smoother morning greeted us.
Our plan from Boise was to head pretty much east and across the southern part of Wyoming, then turn south to …
The departure day for our trip had finally arrived! We’d planned a relatively long first day: approximately 6 hours to Erie, Colorado (near Boulder). I’d been obsessing about the weather for days, which wasn’t very useful. It had been looking …
Kelly and I had been planning this trip for almost a year. The goal was to fly from our home base in Seattle to Lake Martin (north of Montgomery, Alabama) the weekend after Memorial day, for a family reunion. We …
Annual is done! And for the second year in a row, it was much more than just the annual (last year was remove/repair/reinstall right fuel tank). Extra things I had to do this year: 1) return the strobe driver box …