Growing up one my best friends was Marc Sedaka, whose father is the songwriter and singer of Breaking Up is Hard to Do (and a bunch more hits). Neil became famous when he was young, at nineteen he already had a hit in the Billboard Top Twenty. When Marc and I were in high school Neil wrote his...

(This is a part of A Summer of Flying.) A couple days after the flight to Fishers Island, Dexter and I had everything packed up and we Uber’ed out to Caldwell. The plane is sitting in the sun, fully fueled and ready to go. It's so strange when something disappears from the plane, especially when it...

(photo credit: http://blog.evantinedesign.com/tag/philadelphia-art/) (This is a part of A Summer of Flying.) Once we were settling in New York City Dexter headed up to see Columbia, we drove out of the City to see Princeton and we popped down to Swarthmore to tour their campus. When we drove...

Oops, Diamond neglected to name their new plane. I think that’s in part because it is technically a version of their Twinstar, a plane I am struggling to upgrade to. So maybe it is so they don’t tip off the regulators, or maybe that is part of the Type Certificate: Model Name. Under any name, it is...

(This is a part of A Summer of Flying.) Before I returned to London, Ontario to get the plane, I borrowed Susan’s plane to fly Rudy up to Palo Alto where he was going to be a counselor at Great Books on Stanford’s campus. Her plane is just a couple years newer than mine, but it’s got two key...

(This is part of A Summer of Flying.) Packing up the plane the next morning (when I discovered the broken antenna), I realize that so much of the trip is repetitive. Here I am again, with the roller bag carefully stowed in the luggage area, the nose plugs and gust lock on the floor of the back...

(This is part of A Summer of Flying.) We started out at the end of June. It was sort of luxurious to have the front seat as an empty space to pile my bag of necessities (Kind bars, iPad mini, water) and Dexter seemed like a young CEO climbing into the back with his laptop, iPhone and small fleecy...

It looked like it might be the last amazing summer of crossing the country with the family. And then Nell took a job on The Muppet Show for Disney and Rudy took a job as a counselor at Great Books. Dexter still had commitments, though, so it wound up being a lot of flying either solo or with Dexter...

Who knows how long the article will stay up, but CBS Denver is reporting that a two seat version of our plane had engine trouble and wasn't able to make it all the way back to the runway at Centenniel airport in Denver. Instead it landed hard in a grassy field just short of the runway.

(This is a part of A Summer of Flying.) My favorite trips in the plane are those that I would never otherwise make. There was a time when my parents were up at the Lake in Canada and I was working in the City. I wanted to go up for just a few days and it was a major adventure to do so. Train out to...