John & Anne Wiley

2010/08/26

More Missed

Filed under: Aviation,Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,Nature,NxNW Adventure,Random,Tripp — John @ 21:18

We’re taking care of some stuff around here right now, and then going out to SBA for some Tripp pampering time. She gets an oil change today, and we’ll start getting her ready for another adventure. While taking a break right now, I looked at more pix from the NxNW trip and found one in particular that I’d meant to post.

Flying NW from Winnipeg, we didn’t get any more pix I really like (beyond the stuff already posted) until we stopped for a stretch on the way to Regina. Sometimes a name on a map captures my attention, and the aviation chart showed a small airport directly on our route and about halfway named Unity. We of course had to stop!

0101 Unity

0101 Unity

Update: as you may have noticed, Anne had already blogged about our Unity stop during the NxNW trip.

0099 Gordon McClane

0099 Gordon McClane

Another pic I like from this day’s flying is one Anne got that I hadn’t seen until recently. I liked the colors and shapes at first glance, and it reminds me of so many small lakes and ponds we saw but didn’t snap.

0102 Toon Dog Pond

0102 Toon Dog Pond

Looking at it just now during upload I noticed something else I like. Do you see a cartoon shape in this one? The yellow outline of the pond traces a Snoopy looking cartoon dog with nose bottom-right and ears top-right.

Last for today, here’s another one I like of beautiful Edmonton. You can see how well the layout mingles countryside, suburbs and city.

0171 Edmonton Context

0171 Edmonton Context

I sure hope the good planning you can see in this pic continues with the preservation of the downtown airport that so effectively complements the larger international one on the outskirts. It would be a shame to undo the generations of hard work developing such a great place to live and work. Multiple airports bring many advantages in commerce and air safety.

Merry MariTimes?

Filed under: Aviation,Flying,Happiness,MeriTimes Adventure,Random — John @ 09:30

Well, tonight we started talking about another trip! It’s remarkable given that we’ve been mostly holed up, haven’t even done any of the short regional or SoCA flights we’d imagined, and haven’t completely unpacked from NxNW. On the other hand, it’s very handy having lots of stuff from the trip still piled together where we can use it as a starting point for a hopefully much lighter load for the next big trip. Will this be it?

When I lived in Canada for a few years everyone seemed to always be talking about The Maritimes. That’s the eastern part of Canada, and having lived only on the west coast for a while it seemed far off, exotic and a bit romantic – especially after adding years of hearing about that region since. I’ve seen a few intriguing articles about it recently, including one in an aviation mag. We also want to visit the two remaining continental states we’ve missed: AR & CO. We’re also itching to spend more time in NYC and DC, and would like a return to FL with lots of other ideas along the way.
Tonight we sketched out a potential vision of mostly “fly-camping,” with the nights numbered and increasingly “flexible” as the list progresses:
1 GRAND CANYON
2 CO (probably through Denver)
3 NB (Omaha) or Iowa
4 & 5 Chicago (hotel?)
Dayton, OH?
6 London, ON
7 Ottawa, ON
8 Montreal  (hotel?)
9 Quebec City
10 New Brunswick
11 & 12 Newfoundland?
13 Prince Edward Island
14 Nova Scotia
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15 & 16 MAINE  Bar Harbor & other areas?
17 & 18 Boston – Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard?
19 New Haven
20-22 NYC (NJ?)
23 Philadelphia
24 & 25 Pittsburg – Dayton?
26-28 DC
…..
WV, KT, TN, MS, AR, AL, GA, FL (incl. Keys & Bahamas)??
Home via??
Help us! As you can see, the flexibility gets really squishy by the time we leave DC. We could be home in a day or two direct, or meander for weeks. Weather, exhaustion, mood, and perhaps most of all money would all be factors. So tonight we begin to dream about it.
Any comments, suggestions, ideas??

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