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2018-07 SLE (Salem, OR)

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A week of summer vacation is upon us and we finally have a plan in place. We debated on where to go all week. Based on the wildfires in the pacific northwest most places we wanted to visit were undesirable because of the air quality. We decided our first stop

2018-07: 66S (Cavanaugh Bay, ID)

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What a trip! We just returned from our first family camping trip and in true A Plane Family style, we flew there. Monitoring aviation forms, one location came across the websites frequently, Cavanaugh Bay, Idaho. There is good reason this is a highly praised spot with families who come back

2018-07 WA09 (Roche Harbor, WA)

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SUMMER!  Being a girl, raised in Florida it’s funny how differently I think about summer in the PNW.  I have lived in Washington State for 5 years and its just now hitting me. The dread of winter, the lack of flying the bonanza for months, longing for  a blue bird

2018-04 6K5 (Sisters,OR)

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Spring time offers limited availability for flying in the PNW. We are always looking at the weather app to see if there is a change where the weather will allow for adventure. It’s Easter weekend and our family in Oregon has offered to host us for dinner and an Egg

2018-02 KCLS (Chehalis, WA)

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  Finally a nice day in the PNW! A few days of sun in the Seattle area and all the pilots take to the skies! We’re up for a short lunch trip and somewhere new. Chehalis airport has been on our list since the airport is located right next to

2017-12 S45 (Siletz Bay, OR)

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Another throw at the map and we have had our last flight of the year. It’s 2 days before Christmas and it’s clear outside! Time to go for a a flight. The Oregon Coast is clear too; very rare. We are just going for a day trip, so we look

2017-08 KMYL (McCall, ID)

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We are on our way home and after a fun morning in Jackson Hole, we have a 3:30 flight to get home today, but, we’re going to break it up into 2 legs, and so we choose McCall, ID as our lunch stop.  We have been to McCall  before and

2017-08 KJAC (Jackson Hole, WY)

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We have left Rapid City and we only have one more night of our trip before we need to return home. We have 7 flight hours left on our journey, so we could go half way or we could go 1/3 of the way and just have a longer return