November 30, 2022
Closing out my west coast adventure I headed to Ramona, California for the first in person development meeting with my team since before Covid. Long overdue to see the guys. My plan had been to visit my friends who bought SV Strikhedonia for a few days and some formation flying in Oxnard before mother nature decided other plans for us.…
October 4, 2022
The seasons are changing and with it weather to deal with when flying. I was able to skirt storms on the front and back side of my trip and keep it all VFR.
December 31, 2021
Total flight time was 169.0 hours (309 days from first flight to NYE, just over 10 months of flying) All told I flew to 15 states; Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada, Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Kansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Missouri, and South Carolina Hard to tell exactly the number of miles flown but it is around 30,000.…
November 29, 2021
Hot on the tail of our big North and South Carolina trip we had to load up the plane and head south to Las Vegas. Weather permitting it is a short three hour flight but over some nasty terrain should there be an issue. The side benefit is that the views are breathtaking… Oh and on the way out we…
November 15, 2021
Just about a year ago my childhood friend (and maker) Andrew came and spent 10 day helping me build N241VP. It was such a blast working together and it only seemed fair to make a visit out to his home in North Carolina. First, it is a haul to get there from Steamboat, so we opted to break the flight…
October 3, 2021
I have a group of friends who I met whitewater kayaking and we have been doing a yearly mountain biking trips for a number of years. Last year we were overwhelmed with the crowds at Cuyuna and with my friend Nora moving to Duluth we decided to change it up and use her house as a base for the weekend.…
August 1, 2021
I’ve attended Airventure a bunch of times. Always camping but sometimes driving and sometimes flying. I’ve experienced the mass arrival at KOSH, I’ve spent hours waiting to depart after the show, and experienced the nearly every year big storm. Well this year checked most of those boxes but the most important new one, flying a plane I built. Big shout…
July 8, 2021
Whew, so this made for good learning… I needed to fly back to Steamboat to head off on my annual adventure motorcycle ride. The weather pattern between Minneapolis and Steamboat had been locked in place for days with low clouds and some areas of thunderstorms along the route. As I watched the weather I found a window that looked doable…
April 23, 2021
I built my plane for travel and it was exciting to take her on my first “big” trip after a week at home. Yeah, yeah I know – no grass grows under my feet. I left Steamboat fairly early in the morning but after my wife left in our car (maybe I shouldn’t have sent her a picture from the…