On pace for a 15+ page month!

My dad got a plane a year ago and just recently finished up all the necessary maintenance, so we went flying last weekend. Which means my dad flew and I went along for the ride and took a few pics.
Got to the Hayward airport just as the sun was coming up. It had been ~30 years since I was last in a small plane like this, and it felt a whole lot more spacious inside when I was a little kid.


Airspace around the Bay Area is heavily restricted with SFO, SJS, and OAK all being in close proximity, so we flew south and just made a big loop around the east bay over the hills.
We were in the air by 630am which was nice because it was pretty clear and perfectly calm.


This is the back side of Mission Peak, looking down at it from the east. It's definitely not as dramatic looking from this angle as it is when seeing it from ground level on the other side of the ridge.

For reference, this is the view I'm usually seeing:


Looking down at Calaveras Reservoir towards Sunol Regional Park.


looking west over San Antonio Reservoir


And looking east towards Livermore


Overlooking Central Park in Fremont


Touching down back in Hayward

Fun googling those locations. Looks like a great time, but HARD PASS .

A few years ago, one of my wife's colleagues got her a flying "lesson" for a holiday gift exchange and we took off in a 4-seater from San Carlos airport. First time in an airplane that small and while it was pretty cool, I don't really need to do that again.

Man, that prop is some kind of bent on landing

Nice pics. Sounds like a fun ride to me!

it's the boomerang prop
for round trips and grandpa jokes

Happy Fourth.

I've never seen the movies, but what a bunch of ****ing dorks. Probably don't even have 1,000 forum posts to their name.




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Good song Az

Yesterday, I went to the theater to watch Jurassic Park and saw a zillion guys wearing suits. The girls wearing yellow were more obvious. This explains it!

Love me some X.

Saw this show in San Diego back before the 'rona:

Don't mean to dominate the rap, Jack, but I've got another thing to say...

Wilco, Ashes of American Flags. Nels' solo in this is awesome.

^^I can't have been the only 12-year old wearing out the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot record. What an album.

I love this song to death, just about perfect. It's their very best song imo but not really characteristic of their body of work since it's more of a Dave Alvin song after he replaced Billy Zoom and his punk stylings.

Here's one for the odd coincidences department.

For no good reason, it occurred to me to google my phone # from my days back in Des Moines. Upon going to whatever site google took me too, I saw that the new person's house number and street name were the same as the house that my mother grew up in, in my hometown up in Wisconsin.

I sold that version of that address ~11 years ago, when running the estate of my uncle (who took over the house when his mother died).

Not all freshly picked fruit are equal, these were 6/10 plums.

You plum pickin' son of a gun!

You old sailor you!

Just remembered I had a dream last night that I was somewhere and LKJ was also there. When I realized who he was, I went up and introduced myself and we hung out. It was a really weird setting that didn't really make much sense even in the dream, and now I can't figure out what was going on at all.

A+ TR would read again!

brilliant

LKJ what's your favorite post of mine?

brilliant