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 …
Cooper has graduated to the real headset (my first headset, from 17 years ago). Super cute hearing him “talk” over the intercom today.
We had nice, partly cloudy skies today, for the first time in a while. We flew over …
It had been a few weeks since we had a family flight, so we planned to finally head out to Hoquiam to check out the cafe there. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t great, so we decided on a quick trip over …
Haven’t been doing too much flying lately, with the bad weather and all of us having colds for a couple weeks. I did get up last weekend to do a couple practice approaches, which you can see here at 16x …
Went flying with Kelly and Cooper for the first time since August, before the plane was painted. It was great to fly with them again, though it was pretty cold. Here’s a picture of the little man sleeping instead of …