ArVeeNiner
Well Known Member
I've heard rumors that much of the country is crazy cold. I'd bet it's probably too cold to pound rivets and probably too snowy to fly as well. Out here in California, the weather is beautiful. Well, maybe too beautiful. We are currently in the middle of the biggest drought since they've been keeping records so we are really in for some rough times real soon. Until then, we might as well fly.
Today my friend Anthony and I decided to spend a little time off the surface of the Earth and get some breakfast down in Salinas. Salinas is just a short flight from my home airport of Reid-Hillview (KRHV) but it makes for a relatively cheap way to de-stress.
I forgot to bring the awesome camera my wife bought me for Christmas but I did have my iPhone and iPad which didn't do too bad.
Here is Anthony at Salinas Airport. Our breakfast awaits behind him at the Landing Zone Cafe:
It was warm and gorgeous:
Hey, I built that....the most awesome plane in the world because it's mine!
After breakfast we flew down over Soledad prison (home of Sirhan Sirhan among others) then flew north. This is a shot of the Salinas Airport where we had just departed from minutes earlier. Salinas was the home of John Steinbeck and lies at the north end of the Salinas Valley, the "Salad Bowl of the World". Monterrey is way out there by the water to the left.
The twin stacks are at the power plant at Moss Landing. I recently found a photo that I took of the same place from a rented Cessna 150 way back when I was a teenager. Same plant, different plane, no film, and less hair!
Anthony flew us north for a bit. We are near Pajaro Dunes. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is located a little north where the coast curves to the left. It's home to the last operating seaside amusement park on the west coast and took a starring role in one of the Dirty Harry movies:
Over Watsonville on the way back home. The Santa Clara Valley lies between the two sets of hills ahead:
We put 1.6 hours on the Hobbs but that is all it took to recharge our batteries before having to once again become land based mammals.
Stay warm and keep pounding those rivets!
Today my friend Anthony and I decided to spend a little time off the surface of the Earth and get some breakfast down in Salinas. Salinas is just a short flight from my home airport of Reid-Hillview (KRHV) but it makes for a relatively cheap way to de-stress.
I forgot to bring the awesome camera my wife bought me for Christmas but I did have my iPhone and iPad which didn't do too bad.
Here is Anthony at Salinas Airport. Our breakfast awaits behind him at the Landing Zone Cafe:
It was warm and gorgeous:
Hey, I built that....the most awesome plane in the world because it's mine!
After breakfast we flew down over Soledad prison (home of Sirhan Sirhan among others) then flew north. This is a shot of the Salinas Airport where we had just departed from minutes earlier. Salinas was the home of John Steinbeck and lies at the north end of the Salinas Valley, the "Salad Bowl of the World". Monterrey is way out there by the water to the left.
The twin stacks are at the power plant at Moss Landing. I recently found a photo that I took of the same place from a rented Cessna 150 way back when I was a teenager. Same plant, different plane, no film, and less hair!
Anthony flew us north for a bit. We are near Pajaro Dunes. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is located a little north where the coast curves to the left. It's home to the last operating seaside amusement park on the west coast and took a starring role in one of the Dirty Harry movies:
Over Watsonville on the way back home. The Santa Clara Valley lies between the two sets of hills ahead:
We put 1.6 hours on the Hobbs but that is all it took to recharge our batteries before having to once again become land based mammals.
Stay warm and keep pounding those rivets!