Flying Adventure

Been a while since I had a real flying adventure.  Given that I’m flying to Sedona, Az this weekend, figured I might as well PACK some real flying in.

Mom’s friend Patti needed to pick up a car from LA – said she’d be dricing down with Jim to pick it up in Palmdale, then they would drive separate cars back home to Monterey.  Since I made the trip to Montery recently, and Palmdale is right on the way home, I offerred to pick them up and drop them off.  About 400 miles.  We made all the arrangements to pick them up, and then I heard the bad news:  it wasn’t PalmDALE – it was Palm DESERT where the car was.  VERY different.  Like 200 miles different.  It was arranged.  Had to do it.

Van Nuys to Monterey to Palm Springs to Van Nuys is over 600 miles – and took 5.3 hours on the tach of N233ME.  Great flight, really – but tiring.  I was wheels up at 7:15am, and landed back home at 3pm – stopping only for lunch in Palm Springs.  A good deed, and a cool adventure.