Ashton Woods Retreat Bainbridge Island
5515 NE Tolo Road Bainbridge Island, Washington, 98110, United States
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Additional Information for Pilots
I want to use this last entry to present a lot of miscellaneous information I gathered while completing this RTW flight which I think will be useful to pilots contemplating similar RTW flights or long-distance international flights in general. Let me also preface this by saying this information was current and useful for my flight but over time it will become obsolete. In gathering information from other pilots about flights in years past, some of it ...
Monterey to Bainbridge Island
December 5. The day after arriving in Monterey I flew N788W VFR direct to Merced, California (KMCE), a short flight of about 70 nm. TDL Aero in Merced specializes in auxiliary (ferry) tank installations among other things. In preparation for this flight last June, they removed the rear and co-pilot seats in my plane and installed the main ferry tank. Now they would remove the tank they installed and the second ferry tank installed in Honolulu, and ...
Home again, home again: Completing another circle
Once again our aisle-window reservation gambit paid off: the middle seat was ecstatically vacant. We populated that seat with the best of Britain: a bloomer loaf, west country cheddar, salt and pepper crisps, Digestive Biscuits, and Bramley apples. It was a 10-hour picnic.
On landing in Seattle we snapped into yet another reality, another life. ...
Seattle
... over caught it. He was a Mariners fan and all the other fans around him wanted him to throw it back. He didn't though and I got a picture of him holding it. We lost though so that stinks. Hopefully they win the rest of the series since we aren't going to be there. We might be bad luck since they lost the two games that we went to in Phoenix too. Hopefully that isn't the case because we are trying to see them in Chicago too.
After the game we just missed the ...
Final stories of our trip... and our return home
... br>
We had a week left before we would leave to come back home to Seattle, so we convinced my mom to come down and visit us in Costa Rica. She arrived on Tuesday and Dave picked her up from the airport. The girls were pretty excited to see her. We had a great time with her that week, we went to an animal rescue sanctuary where we saw a baby sloth, ocelot, pecary and many other animals that were rescued.
Sydney attended a ...


