John & Anne Wiley

2009/11/13

The Other Third

Filed under: Big Adventure — John @ 02:15
Update 12/02/2009: This is the last post about our 5-week flight across the U.S., and to read it in sequence you can click here.

This is an approximation of the other third of our path on this Big Adventure, the part from Maine down to Florida and to Mississippi where the actual GPS track starts. You’ll notice we backtracked a bit in the Northeast by going to CT for a few days (and two different airports in Waterbury), then back up to MA, down to RI, across to Martha’s Vineyard (MA again), out to Nantucket and back, up to Hyannis and then down to Long Island. For simplicity our three jaunts along the Hudson (down and back one evening, then back down the next day on our way to DE) are shown with just one line.
If you’re interested in the larger-size versions of these three maps, download them because I’ll be deleting them from the Photo page in a few days (these smaller versions will still be here on the blog, but you can’t really see much at this size). If you don’t know how to download them, I put directions in the description for this most recent one on the Photo Page (click the thumbnail photo to see the medium size with the directions, then click the “All Sizes” icon at the top margin of the medium pic to see the full size one and download it per the directions that you read on the medium size one – Won’t it be nice when computers can talk like on Star Trek?)

2009/11/11

Hops To Maine

Filed under: Big Adventure — John @ 21:16

The white line is an approximation of our track from Santa Barbara to Bar Harbor, ME. The red dots are airports. From Prescott we went toward Chaco Cyn before turning direct to Santa Fe even though that leg shows as a straight line, and of course there were plenty of other places where we wandered to look at stuff that caught our fancy. I did include the major detours to look at Pittsburgh and the Fall colors in northern New Hampshire.

Partial Return Track

Filed under: Big Adventure — John @ 09:31

Above is a track from the GPS that shows part of our return path from MS to CA. Unfortunately, most of the trip was lost due to the GPS only holding the most recent portion and deleting the rest. Had I but remembered this “feature” it would have been easy to create a new track every day or two and have the whole trip. I’d planned to use the GPS track for figuring out where each photo was taken, but that’s not going to happen. Instead we just have our fading memory of where each place was. I can figure out some stuff based on written records and the time stamps on our photos. sigh…

Airports Visited

Filed under: Aviation,Big Adventure,Flying — John @ 08:52

Here are the places we landed after leaving Santa Barbara, in sequence. First is the airport code, for example SBA, then the airport name, Santa Barbara in this example. In cases where the city name isn’t clear from the airport name, like Love in Prescott, I’ve added the city name in parentheses. As you might guess, we chose some airports just for their fun names such as Las Vegas in New Mexico.

California:

CMA – Camarillo, MYF – Montgomery (San Diego), RNM – Ramona

Arizona:

PRC – Love (Prescott)

New Mexico:

SAF – Santa Fe, LVS – Las Vegas

Texas:

DHT – Dalhart

Oklahoma:

O45 – Hooker

Kansas:

LBL – Liberal, 9K8 – Kingman

Missouri:

EVU – Northwest MO Rgnl (Maryville)

Nebraska:

FNB – Brenner (Falls City)

Iowa:

IOW – Iowa City, DBQ – Dubuque Rgnl

Minnesota:

CHU – Houston County (Caledonia)

Wisconsin:

JVL – Southern WI Rgnl (Janesville)

Illinois:

PWK – Chicago Executive

Indiana:

3HO – Hobart

Michigan:

BEH – SW Michigan Rgnl (Benton Harbor)

Ohio:

AKR – Akron Fulton

Pennsylvania:

BFD – Bradford Rgnl

Vermont:

DDH – Morse State (Bennington)

New Hampshire:

EEN – Dillant-Hopkins (Keene)

Maine:

BHB – Hancock County (Bar Harbor)

New Hampshire:

PSM – Portsmouth Intl

Massachusetts:

ORH – Worchester Rgnl

Connecticut:

OXC – Waterbury-Oxford

MMK – Meriden Markham

Massachusetts:

6B6 – Minute Man (Stow)

Rhode Island:

PVD – Green State (Providence)

Massachusetts:

MVY – Martha’s Vineyard

New York:

ISP – Long Island Macarthur

HPN – Westchester Co (White Plains)

New Jersey:

VAY – South Jersey Rgnl (Mount Holly/Lumberton)

Delaware:

ILG – New Castle (Wilmington/Newark)

Maryland:

2W6 – St. Mary’s (Leonardtown)

Virginia:

RIC – Richmond Int’l

West Virginia:

BKW – Raleigh County (Beckley)

Kentucky:

PBX – Pikeville

Tennessee:

0A9 – Elizabethton

North Carolina:

AVL – Asheville

South Carolina:

GMU – Greenville, 99N – Bamberg County

Georgia:

09J – Jeckyll Island

Florida:

7FL6 – Spruce Creek, MLB – Melbourne, TLH – Tallahassee, PNS – Pensacola

Alabama:

2R5 – St. Elmo

Louisiana:

DRI – Beauregard Rgnl (De Ridder)

NEW – New Orleans

Mississippi:

MCB – McComb

Texas:

AUS – Austin, SAT – San Antonio, MRF – Marfa, ELP – El Paso

Arizona:

MZJ – Pinal (Marana), E60 – Eloy

California:

BLH – Blythe, IZA – Santa Ynez, SBA – Santa Barbara

2009/11/10

Numbers Game

Filed under: Aviation,Big Adventure,Flying — John @ 09:14

We’ve started counting things, and as of tonight here are a few numbers:

  • Days away from Santa Barbara on this trip: 35.
  • States where we landed at least once on this trip: 37.
  • Airports landed on at least once: 60.
  • Most hours flown without landing: 3-1/2.
  • Most hours flown in one day (with breaks): 6.
  • Fastest speed (with tailwind): 180 mph.
  • Approximate hours flown at maximum speed: 18.
  • Approximate hours with headwind: 1-1/2.
  • Approximate hours with tailwind: 80.
  • Hotels used at least one night: 20.
  • Nights in tent: 0.
  • Nights in accommodations provided by friends & family: 14.
  • Approximate number of miles we flew on this trip: 9,100.
  • Approximate number of photos taken with two cameras: 9,500.
  • Miles covered by bicycle: 7.
  • Days bicycle used: 2.
  • Countries visible (not counting Oz): 3.
  • Number of U.S. states where we haven’t flown a small plane: 7.
  • Number of countries where we’ve flown a small plane: 2.
  • Number of posts to this blog about this trip so far: 46.
Things I’d like to figure out (but probably won’t):
  • Months, miles & expenses required to roughly duplicate this trip by car.
  • Number of people who have ever flown in a small plane.
  • Number who have landed in more than one state or province in a small plane.
  • Number of people who saw at least one page of this blog.
  • Hours invested in editing and posting words and pictures.
  • Number of photos anyone else will ever see.
  • Number of photos we will ever look at again.
  • Number of times one or both of us exclaimed in wonder and/or delight.
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