Woke up in Albuquerque- and set off on a beautiful flight across America to Santa Maria California

Third departure attempt and we are off! “That is why the world is round- you never know what’s around the next corner” (Out of Africa by Karen Blixen) What a surprise! We were all set for a few days in Wichita. We had rented a car- booked a dinner reservation in Ponca City (Enrique’s Mexican … More Three times a charm

Best made plans. Our hope was that we would be on the coast of California right now. I guess I did say in my previous post – “we plan…” as opposed to “ we will…”. You can plan as best you can but circumstances always win out! Yesterday started off so well ! Our kids … More Best made plans…

One year later and Dylan and I are off on another ferry flight to Australia – Meereba. Last year exactly at this time we we on our way to Kinshasa, Congo – east rather than west and heading over the Pacific rather than the Atlantic – and towards a country of 102 million and covering … More A new adventure awaits – Moundridge, Kansas to Mareeba Australia!

As we started to hit bad weather we couldn’t help but have the chat of where would be the hardest place to have an emergency landing- jungle or sea or ice cap or the desert Looking down at this massive dense jungle we thought – desert:) The Democratic of Congo – formerly Zaire – is … More Ferry flight to DRC- last leg to Kinshasa

We had the opportunity to see and read up a bit about Cape Verde today These islands were uninhabited until the 15th century when they were discovered and colonized by Portuguese explorers. Cape Verde established the first European settlement in the tropics. Because of where these islands are situated – they became instrumental and the … More Ferry Flight to DRC- Cape Verde

Our route today takes us to Cape Verde. The third island on our route- first Newfoundland- then an island in the Azores and now an island in Cape Verde My first thought- Cape Verde as Greenland – despite their names – are not too green! Oh the history and irony of names.

Upon reading about the heritage of the people here I learned that they are primarily Portuguese,Flemish, French and Spaniards – and – as well- African slaves from Guinea, Cape Verde and São Tomé. These are the three African countries we will be traveling through to get to Kinshasa. Whenever we have travelled through countries which … More Ferry flight to DRC- day in the Azores

We will be here for another day – so for those interested- I will post some pictures tomorrow of what we discover:)

We debated continuing on yesterday and go on to St Johns – smoking tailwinds are hard to say no to – up to 75 knots – however the forecast was questionable and landing at 10 pm was the deciding factor and so we kept to plan and landed in Quebec City Today we have the … More Ferry flight to DRC- today Atlantic Canada

To prepare for an early Saturday departure we fuelled and loaded up N717RD Our destination today is Quebec City. We departed a little later as we needed to find a fuel hose for the ferry tank. Extra fuel tanks are installed in the aircraft for additional fuel for the ferry flight and they are taken … More Ferry flight to DRC- off we go!