Home Sweet Home
After only 20 hours of total travel time this time around, I’ve made it home.
My flights home were actually good – especially the one from London to Toronto. If you ever get the chance to fly in one of Air Canada’s new Boeing 777-300 aircrafts, do it! I spent my 7 hours sitting in a very comfortable chair watching whatever programming I wanted on my own little TV (Blades of Glory second time around still made me laugh), had really nice food and was catered to by pleasant flight attendants. No complaints.
No rain in Calgary, thank god, so I don’t have to drive 7 hours to the BC interior to get my vitamin D fix from the sun. It is too windy to fly right now but I’m too jet lagged to do anything anyway. Since tomorrow looks windier I am going to try to groundhandle my new wing on Tuesday or Wednesday to get some practice in before the XC clinic with Will Gadd on the weekend. I want to avoid taking my old wing out to Golden for that – I have no desire to ever fly my Apco again if I don’t have to.
I ended up buying a new radio just before I left – a Kenwood K2AT. In this sport I find myself making purchases which at the time seem perfectly logical and then later discover that I now own something which is poor performing, unreliable, heavy, overpriced, etc. I’m hoping that this radio I bought will not fit this mould I’ve created for myself, although I’m still half expecting someone to say “Oh! Why did you buy that, when you could have bought this, which is much, much better?”
The day I flew out of England looked flyable, and today a UK pilot I know told me it was good for flying too, of course. Frustrating, yes, but I had a really good time out at the Dune and spending time in England was really nice as well. I think I’ve learned from this trip that I really do need to start some sort of rainy day hobby outside of (business related or not) the internet because my own narrow mindedness is really the cause of my boredom when the weather is poor – the weather itself is not the culprit. After visiting England, I think I’ve been inspired to take up historical reproduction tapestry…that should keep me busy.
My flights home were actually good – especially the one from London to Toronto. If you ever get the chance to fly in one of Air Canada’s new Boeing 777-300 aircrafts, do it! I spent my 7 hours sitting in a very comfortable chair watching whatever programming I wanted on my own little TV (Blades of Glory second time around still made me laugh), had really nice food and was catered to by pleasant flight attendants. No complaints.
No rain in Calgary, thank god, so I don’t have to drive 7 hours to the BC interior to get my vitamin D fix from the sun. It is too windy to fly right now but I’m too jet lagged to do anything anyway. Since tomorrow looks windier I am going to try to groundhandle my new wing on Tuesday or Wednesday to get some practice in before the XC clinic with Will Gadd on the weekend. I want to avoid taking my old wing out to Golden for that – I have no desire to ever fly my Apco again if I don’t have to.
I ended up buying a new radio just before I left – a Kenwood K2AT. In this sport I find myself making purchases which at the time seem perfectly logical and then later discover that I now own something which is poor performing, unreliable, heavy, overpriced, etc. I’m hoping that this radio I bought will not fit this mould I’ve created for myself, although I’m still half expecting someone to say “Oh! Why did you buy that, when you could have bought this, which is much, much better?”The day I flew out of England looked flyable, and today a UK pilot I know told me it was good for flying too, of course. Frustrating, yes, but I had a really good time out at the Dune and spending time in England was really nice as well. I think I’ve learned from this trip that I really do need to start some sort of rainy day hobby outside of (business related or not) the internet because my own narrow mindedness is really the cause of my boredom when the weather is poor – the weather itself is not the culprit. After visiting England, I think I’ve been inspired to take up historical reproduction tapestry…that should keep me busy.
posted by Veronica at 11:16 AM
1 Comments:
Historical reproduction tapestry sounds good, but a better idea would be making historical reproduction dresses (which you could fly in!). . . . Hope you're having a gret time back there . . .
Tom
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