Some highlights on the road over the last couple of months.

Winter village in LA

The fountain in the Detroit Airport

One of the many sunrises on the early morning departures

New York City skyline complete with the Statue of Liberty

Double Vision

The beautiful Florida coast

Mount Hood

Las Vegas

The Hoover Dam

The CN Tower in Toronto Canada

It has been busy flying and I am looking forward to some time off with Family.  Keep the shinny side up.

Good morning

This trip had early get ups each day. The cool thing is the beautiful sunrise.


A bunch of hops this trip. I saw the Milwaukee orchestra. They we're animal like. Merry Christmas.



On to New York always a favorite.




On my way home. Can't wait.


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Hollywood

I had a cool trip to LA.  We stay downtown and while I was there they were filming scenes for the new Batman movie.  It was very fun to watch.  They would start filming late at night around 9pm and shoot all night until dawn.  I was on the 20th floor and could see right out my window the scenes being filmed over and over.  They would shoot several takes of the same scene.  The video shows a chase scene that included about 30 or 40 Gotham City Police cars chasing batman on his huge motorcycle.  They would run the scene slow and eventually speed it up to full speed.  There was even a helicopter that would swoop down between the buildings.  Look closely and see if you can find it.  I was mesmerized.

Setting up for the chase

This was our Hotel.  Look for it in the movie.

The terrace of our hotel by day.  Great view.

Time has flown

Well, were does the time go. I see it has been a long time since I have posted. Been on the road some but have had vacation the last few months and was able to get some good time off. These are a few of the fun places I have been.

New York Central Park


Atlanta down town in the park


- Jackson Hole on a quick break


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Been a long time.

Sorry it has been a long time since I posted. Funny thing about living in Minnesota once winter is over everyone lives life at 200 mph. You have to get everything out of every day that does not have snow in it. By the time fall rolls around you are so tired that you want to hibernate like the bears do. It is crazy! I have been bidding my flights to get the most flying I can get with the fewest days which means when I work they are 14 hour days, sleep repeat. I have seen so many cool things that I will try and recap.

In St Louis we stay right across the street from the Arch. A great walk way all along the river. Very cool.

This was just a week or so after the terrible tornadoes that hit the midwest. The airport was hit with a tornado and it blew out the windows in the terminal. You can see the video on YouTube.

This is Guadalajara, Mexico. It is very impoverished. I don't like going there much as it is not very safe right now. Interesting to see but always has a heavy sulfur smell. We can't walk around much. We have to stay in our hotel.

Kansas City. This is our good friend Blaine and Julia. Blaine has invented a lift that attaches to your garage opener and automatically lifts your bikes up to the ceiling. Very cool. He was setting up here for a show and I was in town to help.

Big thunderstorms. Beautiful, but boy can they mess things up. I have been delayed and extended this summer because of these little pests.

I had a 30 hour layover in Jacksonville, Florida and was able to go to Gainesville and hang out with Voom Voom Papa. We went boating on the Suwannee river. Very fun! We saw a bunch of Alligators. Imagine that.

New York, New York! I love it there. This is Times Square.

Very Sad... This is how a soldier comes home if they have been killed in the war. It is very respectful and honoring. There is another soldier that escorts them home. They ride along side them the entire way. I am in Atlanta this day and everyone stops what they are doing as the tug drives by.

This pretty much sums up everything. Crazy times we live in so you better " Trust God or go crazy"

See ya soon!

Beauty and the Beast

Taking off out of Portland Oregon there are some absolutely beautiful sights. This picture is a distant picture of Mt Hood. It is 11,235 feet tall. Notice the clouds below the peak. It is cool because you can see the top sticking out above the clouds.

This is what Mt Hood looks like as we fly by. We are flying right next to the giant mountain. Very cool. It has snow on it all year around and in some places they ski in the summer.

This picture is of Mt St Helens in the front and Mt Rainier in the back. Mt Rainier is over 14,000 feet tall and Mt. St Helens is the volcano that blew up several years ago. It is only a little over 8,000 feet tall now. The entire top half of the mountain blew off and we saw ashes all the way to Cincinnati when we lived there.

Me tired of fighting the weather. This trip has been full of blizzards, bumps and thunderstorm. It is hard to see out the window in those conditions. Ready for sun!!!

Will winter ever end??? Snowing like crazy in Salt Lake.

On to Spokane Washington. It was 39 degrees but I was curious about what this was as I looked out my hotel window. So, I got a Starbucks and investigated.

Now I get it. As I walked around the corner I saw the beast and why there was a rope across the river. It was to keep boats and people from going over the falls. The falls generate electricity here in Spokane. In 1922 they built a powerplant to generate the cities electricity. It still works today.

There is a bridge that spans across the falls. You can feel the spray from the water below. It was kind of cold today though. The water turns a generator that produces electricity.

Well home tonight. Can't wait.

Winter Wonderland

Wow what a day. We have been flying around this week in a winter wonderland. The first day we were in Charlotte and they received a couple of inches of snow and the whole operation shut down. Not in Minneapolis. Take a look at where Santa Lives.

Trying to taxi around the airport with out any taxi lines. They are all covered by snow.

Landing can be tricky as everything goes white when you put the aircraft into reverse. Slippery!

Even driving the baggage carts has it's challenges.

This is the view as we start to get deiced. Cool machines. They call it the car wash. There is one of these contraptions on each side of the airplane. He has a nozzle on the front and sprays the aircraft with deice fluid.

On to California for the night. These are the Rockies. Very beautiful snow covered.

Even the Grand Canyon has snow on it. Cool!

Lots of traffic today.

Well it has been a long day of fighting the weather. I am tired, see ya tomorrow. I am getting some sleep.