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2021- 05 Flying south for spring

S50-TVL-TRM-S21-S50. Nice spring weather and a quick annual allowed us to cancel our airlines tickets and fly to Palm Springs. Our favorite air museum is hosting a 25th anniversary party and we embrace the opportunity to get dressed up and socialize. We start the journey by leaving Auburn with a

2019-07 KPSP (Palm Springs, CA)

Its the middle of the summer and the weather is nice to fly. It’s the weekend of July 4th. We fly to Palm Springs for the weekend to do a photo shoot for the Palm Springs Air Museum and Mama Pilot and Little Dude tag along. We stopped in Bend

2019-06 E45 (Pine Mountain Lake, CA)

Sometimes life has a different plan than the one we had made. The Little Dude has just finished Kindergarten and its time to take a trip to celebrate. We had plans to go international, but Mama Pilot injured her knee and cannot walk very well. We scan our list of

2018-10 KSJC (San Jose, CA)

This post is dedicated to my Great Aunt . It’s fall and were into marginal flying days. Luckily, this October has been nice and warm. Mama Pilot’s Great Aunt  passed away on August 1st, 2018 and her celebration of life was October 20th, 2018. We’re planning on going to celebrate

KPSP (Palm Springs, CA) May 2017 ::Leg 3 of 6::

Unfortunately when I think of Palm Springs my thoughts of palm trees and In-n-Out are over shadowed by the thought of large fees at the FBO’s at KPSP. We load up from KBIH and get our seat belts on for the rest of the bumpy flight to KPSP. It should

KBIH (Bishop, CA) May 2017 ::Leg 2 of 6 ::

After a quick sleep in Bend we are off to Palm Springs for the night. The flight direct is 3:30. The airplane is capable of the flight, but the passengers aren’t. So we plan a stop in Bishop, CA. Bishop is about a 2 hour fight which will get us

KCCR (Concord, CA) August 2016

The last stop on our big summer adventure was flying to Concord, CA to visit Grandma J. We took off from KBDN and it was about a 2.5 hour flight to KCCR. It was almost the middle of August, so it was HOT the first few minutes and right before