Off the ground about 5.5 hours late
Stopping at the Executive Jet Center at Redding for lunch
Entering the Bay Area from the north
Being overtaken by a Pilatus. I guess they _can_ be somewhat faster than a Cherokee....
Stopping for gas in Hollister after diverting from KHAF and Watsonville.
Welcome to exotic Hanford, CA!
Morning in Hanford. Time to... fly?
Reuben cleans the plugs while we wait for the fog to clear.
1.5 mile visibility through the valley. Well, down there.
Approaching the Grapevine.
Passing over Gorman
Morning at KHND Henderson in Las Vegas, NV
The approach to Furnace Creek, Death Valley.
-210 feet MSL, lowest airport in the USA.
Why is there a seaplane based at the Death Valley airport?
Furnace Creek is a little oasis in the middle of an uncompromising desert.
Death Valley is, to use Buzz Aldrin's words, 'magnificent desolation'.
I try to imagine what crossing this on foot must have been like.
Crater?
The ultimate compliment to the pilot.
Approaching Hawthorne, NV for an unscheduled bio-break.
Parked at KMEV
Lunch at the Taildragger Cafe
Wife looking for another book to read.
Not bad gas prices at MEV
Coming over the hill to Lake Tahoe.
Beautiful Lake Tahoe
Crater Lake
This is what we found in our home valley. Not landing here today, our airport is somewhere under there.
