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Sherri L. Smith and I were royally hosted by the Warren County Public Library at the Aviation Heritage Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky on Sunday, 7 July 2024. We did our American Wings double act beneath the wings of a…

 It’s nearly two weeks since this wonderful couple of days, but better late than never to tell about it and say thank you, right? My novel Stateless was on the shortlist for this award, along with eleven other books by…

I write this sitting on the Mt. Gretna porch.It was so weird flying back to the east coast on United 2213, from Orange County airport to Newark, in less than five hours, yesterday.On Friday, however, it took us close to…

We landed in El Paso on Wednesday and suddenly couldn’t steer the plane down the runway.“Exit the runway at Uniform 2 and taxi via Hotel,” came the call, or something similar, and we were like, “Um, can we exit here…

Bringing you the latest from Deming, New Mexico, where we landed this afternoon after an epic visit to El Paso, Texas. More about that in the next instalment – I need to catch up with the beginning of the week!One…

We spent Friday in Clinton, Mississippi, avoiding Weather, and continued our trip west on Saturday, This time we ended up in Shreveport, Louisiana. You guessed it: lunch included more catfish. Shreveport is on the Red River, where the “Great Raft,”…

After being stuck in the Golden Isles for three days to avoid bad weather, which was really like being on a three-day beach vacation, we are now on our way back west. We set out on Wednesday with the intention…

We are on the East Coast!We said we wanted to fly across America some day, and we did it!We’d intended to do two legs on Saturday, meaning to take off from Hammond, Louisian, and end up in Tallahassee, Florida, with…

I write this sitting on a porch in Andalusia, Alabama, but I’m two days behind with my record-keeping so you’ll have to tune in tomorrow to find out how we got here!Thursday was a downtime day because of weather. We…

“Nous demandons à boire, mais nous demandons aussi à communiquer.”(“We need to drink, but also we need to communicate.”)– Antoine de Saint ExupéryIt’s one of my favorite literary aviation quotations – the pilot, rescued from a crash in the desert,…