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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,…

Our morning in El Paso included our second really classic early 20th century US Post Office, which we now seem to be collecting (there was one in Phoenix, too), and a ride on El Paso’s amazing restored trolley cars which…

We wandered around downtown Phoenix in the morning waiting for the weather to clear and the winds to settle further east, then flew at 9500 feet most of the way from Phoenix to El Paso. Here’s what was notable today:Tim…

We actually REALLY DID start our trip yesterday, and this morning we are in Phoenix!We didn’t plan to be in Phoenix. We planned to spend the night in Gila Bend, Arizona, and indeed that’s where we landed, after routing through…

How I would love to tell you that we landed in Gila Bend, Arizona, yesterday afternoon, and drank margaritas at their Cinco de Mayo Festival!But I would be making it up because we never got off the ground yesterday. We…

That’s Corona Municipal Airport, an hour outside Los Angeles, where we’re starting from. Yesterday I had my first flight in One Bravo Juliet, with Eric Cordova as my instructor  – joining the circuit and landing at Riverside, then Chino, and…

2 May 2024I write this sitting in a Best Western Courtyard in Corona, California. Tomorrow begins my biggest flight adventure ever, though it takes some topping (“Flying across Kenya,” “Niagara Falls from the gun turret of a Lancaster bomber,” “A…