California Trip Videos

Flying over the Grand Canyon

Burbank Bob Hope Airport (N21YF is on the ground in California!)

Flying home over Arizona

New Orleans Arrival

Home Sweet Home

10/7 Today is the last day of our cross country trip, a nonstop flight from New Orleans back home to Merritt Island. The terrain is starting to look familiar again - blue and green swamplands instead of brown mountains, sandy deserts and green valleys. Even with the picutres to prove it, it's hard to believe we really flew One Yankee Fox coast to coast!

Leaving New Orleans

10/7 Before leaving New Orleans, we stopped at the famous Cafe Du Monde for Beignets. Then we were off to the airport and on our way back home.

Heading Home - Day 3

10/6 Today we flew from El Paso to New Orleans with a fuel stop in San Antonio. Tonight we're staying at the Marriott in downtown New Orleans with a gorgeous view of the Mississippi River. It's good to see the city coming back to life after Katrina, although some areas have a long way to go before they are restored. Seeing the extent of the damage first hand is sobering.

Heading Home - Day 2

10/5 Another beautiful flight today. Keeping an eye on the weather ahead of us, we are playing it safe and staying in El Paso tonight.

Landing in Mesa, AZ

Heading Home - Day 1

10/4 The NSGCD Conference is over, Marcie successfully passed her peer review and is now a CPO-CD, and we're headed back home. First stop, Mesa, AZ. Here are some highlights of this leg of the flight.

Downtown Los Angeles

9/30 After dropping off some things at the plane, we switched hotels to the Omni in downtown LA. Our room on the 12th floor overlooks a courtyard with dancing fountains. Marcie is studying for her NSGCD Level III Peer Review on Thursday morning. The NSGCD Conference on starts on Friday.

Whirlwind Tour of LA

9/28 & 9/29 My dear husband gave me an excellent tour of LA. First we drove through Beverly Hills, which he knows like the back of his hand from watching TV show such as the Beverly Hillbillies and Beverly Hills Cop. We also visited the Ronald Regan Library, Sants Barbara, La Brea Tar Pits,and Hollywood Blvd.

We're Here!

9/28 Another beautiful flight from Henderson, NV to Burbank, CA. Along the way we overflew Edwards Airforce Base (secondary landing strip for the Space Shuttle) and Palmdale (where the Shuttle was manufactured.) Burbank airport is just over a 7000 ft mountain ridge; in the distance you can see the 14,000 foot mountains along the Pacific Coast.