In the morning Mom went for a walk so Rudy, Dad, and I were left alone for breakfast. We left to find an Au Bon Pain by Yelping. We fond one, but when we got to where it was supposed to be, it wasn’t there. In the end it turned out it was in a hospital and I had a good chocolate croissant. Then we...

The next day I woke up at 7:00 giving me a grand total of seven hours of sleep that night, or morning. I had a small bowl of Raisin Bran and small cup of apple juice, a disappointing breakfast. As we left I felt satisfied with the overnight.

I woke up at 6:07 in the morning and hauled myself out of bed. I walked out to the kitchen where everybody was already up. I had a breakfast of a bagel and bacon, the last bacon I would have for three days. I couldn’t find my shoes and my dad got angry and said it was an example of something....

Our tenth flight across the country brought us to the follow Fixed Base Operators, so I reviewed them for the Airnav web site. Eastward FBOs were already reviewed, and I also wrote reviews for our Spring Break 2009, and 2007 trips. Airnav really needs to get it together to make the data available...

When we cross the country, in fact on most of our longer trips, I fly with some napping passengers. I'll look in the back and Rudy will be reading a Piers Anthony book on his Kindle but Dexter's head will be tipped against the window. Or Dexter will be watching 1776 (the musical) on his iPhone and...

The plane needs to be cleaned. Ellie spent over an hour scrubbing it. Adam spent some smarter time finding the reason oil was slipping out of the engine and onto the outside of the plane. Soon, Adam is going to find out how to put in some blog entries on his own, because he's already put 125 hours...

August 6th and 7th, 2010 This summer little N971RD flew 6,800 nautical miles, helping us traverse the continent, bringing me up to visit Nell while she was on set in Toronto (watch Warehouse 13!), and showing us, again, parts of the country we would never otherwise see. I thought of that as I...

N3989L managed to bring home Kylee, a dog for Ellie's birthday. Usually the dog is carsick and Adam was a little worried about the interior of the plane, but the flight went okay. Kylee is a rescue dog. On arrival at Adam's house the dog took off for a night away, which convinced her that the warm...

Adam is back to contributing to the blog, at least by proxy. Just behind Adam's plane (N3989L, with the snazzy red paint job) you can see the wingtip of the business jet. It's a loop of some sort. I've never seen anything like it. Neither had Adam, which is why we have a snap of it.

Our ninth flight across the country brought us to the follow Fixed Base Operators, so I reviewed them for the Airnav web site. I also wrote reviews for our Spring Break 2009, and 2007 trips. I wish that Airnav had an iPhone or iPad application, so we could plan where to land (and where to park)...