My dream come true: Oshkosh 2018

[Norcalrv7]

If you haven't been to Telluride I highly recommend it! unfortunately it is a bit on the pricey side. I was able to score a room at the peaks resort for 199/ Night. The area is beautiful, and there is a free gondola ride into down for dinner.



IMG_20180730_184739 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180730_200621 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180730_202248 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180730_203316 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180730_203914 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

[Norcalrv7]

On our second to last day we departed Telluride, through monument Valley for the Grand Canyon. There is some pretty harsh terrain out there!

IMG_20180731_095732 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180731_104129 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180731_103955 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180731_105933 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180731_110751 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180731_113244_1 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180731_113539 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180731_155007 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180731_121422 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180731_123559 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

[Norcalrv7]

While at the grand Canyon, We suffered our first major change in plans for the trip. Every single hotel was booked up, so we did the obvious thing. Fly to Vegas!

We took this picture to freak our parents out just in case flying an home built airplane all over the country wasnt enough
IMG_0777 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180731_173405 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

One more day of flying to get us back home in Northern CA.
Sacramento was a very busy with all the firefighting aircraft

IMG_20180801_121917 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

IMG_20180801_134217 by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

[Norcalrv7]

All in all, this 3800 NM trip was one for my record books. We ended up flying about 27 hours total. Most days we flew about 3 hours in the morning, then had the rest of the day to explore. Next trip we might give ourselves an extra day in places like Telluride, or Johnson Creek area to relax. The amount of things and places we were able to see would have been impossible any other way. I can't wait for next year

Cheers!

Caleb

Route by Caleb Lesher, on Flickr

[scsmith]

Wow, congrats, Caleb, on successfully making the conversion from the Subie to the Lycoming with SDS, and fulfilling your dream. Great pictures. But mostly, you are one lucky dude for finding Tiffany. Don't let her get away! Be happy. Hope to cross paths some time, maybe at Johnson Creek!

Oh, that boring stretch through Teluride and down to the Grand Canyon? I've done that on a bicycle (but in the other direction)!

[crabandy]

Caleb is doing it right!!

[BruceEicher]

Impressive! Every stop and sight is either on my ?did that? or ?yet to do? lists except one. (OshKosh). But then it?s the journey most great trips.
Nice write up and photo log, thanks!

[DNeufeld]

Thanks, Caleb. Enjoyed the pics...!!

[wjb]

Thanks for the writeup, Caleb! I did my first OSH trip last year (via commercial spam 737's) and had a fantastic time. The RV7's getting closer to flight and I'm looking forward to taking my better half to OSH in 2019/20!

Awesome flight! Thanks for sharing.

[AJ85WA]

Love the pictures mate!
Thanks for sharing.

You guys sure are lucky to have such a diversity in flying land over there!

America is really beautifull from the sky!