Oh No! Here we go again.

work. sometimes it is just another one of those four letter words not meant to be uttered in polite company. work. work just sucked me back in and buried me with too much to do. the whole true cross country trip started to become something of a dream. I really did make that flight, right? A weekend day flight here and there, out for breakfast with friends, a couple of grass runways under the wheels, but no grand adventures. The credit card bills started rolling in and a true accounting of the trip was at hand. no avoiding it, a whole lot of expensive airplane 100LL gas got burned and now was the time to pay up. my hoped for trip to Oshkosh, the pilot's mecca, no longer on the calendar. No regrets about the trip that is now behind me, truly none at all, but that one grand adventure can't possibly be all there is to look forward to this year.

good news; new adventure is at hand! and oddly, weirdly, coincidentally, by some strange cosmic twist of fate, the alignment of the planets, global warming and the constant movement of the magnetic north pole, I'm headed right back to Spokane, WA. it makes me smile just to think about it.

the new mission, because it really is a mission, is to bring back a 1949 Piper Clipper. It would be lovely to fly this pretty little plane back to NY but now that I know what that journey entails and since I don't know this new plane at all, the wings are coming off and the whole plane is going into the back of a box truck for the long ride home.

so, the adventure is at hand. a commercial flight out, a seriously long drive in a rental truck back. lots to do, to plan, to prepare for. far from my base of resources I must be on top of everything from moment one. I can hardly wait. details to follow.

life is good and the livin' is easy.