It was time to spend a Saturday doing something other than Work on the House. So, we jumped in the plane (at the crack of noon) and headed to Cheyenne. Although a brownish haze blanketed the entire area, it was a good day to look around at the landscape of northern Colorado. The snow brings [...]
Posts Tagged ‘airplane’
Uplift
Posted in travel, tagged airplane, Colorado, mountains, travel on February 19, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Nice Day for…
Posted in travel, tagged airplane, Colorado on November 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
… an airplane ride! Yes, the airplane is back from the dead, back from Oregon, and Bo is back too. We flew east of Denver, out to the plains, checked out the small airports at Platte Valley and Fort Morgan. The plains are not as exciting scenery as the mountains might be, but I did [...]
How to make a small airplane look big
Posted in Home, tagged airplane, Home on April 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Bo’s Grumman Yankee is as old as he is– 41 this year– and it’s never had an update on its interior. So, a few months ago, he hired a local upholsterer to re-vamp the seats, side panels, and dashboard top. In order to get the plane into the shop, the wings were removed, and in [...]
Shasta
Posted in state of Jefferson, tagged airplane, Jefferson on January 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today was supposed to be a perfect day to hop in the plane and spend the day at the coast. But as is sometimes the case, the weather didn’t quite cooperate; morning fog blanketed our neighborhood, while at the coast the wind was building up into a rage and the rains were coming.We decided to [...]
Columbia, California
Posted in travel, tagged airplane, California, travel on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stop #1 on our vacation trip, about 2-1/2 hours away by plane, was an historic town in gold rush country. Literally, the town consists of a California State Historic Park, and it includes commercial entities that must abide by rules of the historic district. So the mercantile, bank, saloon, and hotel all conform to the [...]
