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KRDM (Bend, OR) January 2017

Monday’s start watching the weather throughout the week trying to decide if flying is in the forecast for the upcoming weekend! It looks great in the Seattle area and through Portland to Bend with a small chance of rain Sunday. We decide it is a go and meet our friends the

Travel Crib

After an abundance of research we decided on the Guava Family Lotus Travel Crib. Since our son is now 3.5 we have not been traveling with it. But we will be using it once again when the new baby comes in June. The Guava Family was an easy choice because

Car Seats -> Plane Seats

We purchased both of The Little Dudes car seats before the plane. He was just over a year and was still rear facing. We initially put him rear facing against our rear facing second row, until the Tillamook incident, then we moved him to the third row left side away

KBLI (Bellingham, WA) January 2017

Getting up in the morning and looking at the weather is always how it starts. “Do we want to go flying today,” my husband and I exchange our favorite sentence. Weather looks okay, but just locally. Snow and freezing temperatures to the east and thunderstorms to the south make traveling

Headsets

Head Sets are super important in General Aviation. Unfortunately, we have not found a great option for a headset with a microphone for our son. Kids headsets are bulky and heavy. We purchased the Pilot Cadet for him and he never wears it! We have found the Baby Banz to

KSLE (Salem, OR) October 2016

We flew  to Salem from Albany, OR (S12) October 22th. After we picked up our friend in Arlington we dropped him at the Albany Airport with tentative plans to go stay the evening in KBDN, Just on the other side of the mountains. But, Johns ever changing work schedule required

KAWO (Arlington, WA) October 2016

When a friend calls on a Saturday and asks for a “Ride” to Salem to meet his wife how do you say no? Weather is good and were always looking for a new destination. KAWO is only 50 miles from S50 and a simple 30 minute flight. We loaded up

WA09 (Roche Harbor, WA) October, 2016

It’s a Monday and the weather is great. Should we take some vacation to meet up with friends and go flying? YES! We meet up with our friends the Birdies at S50 and pick where to go! Since the weather is nice in the whole area its game since the

KRDM (Redmond, WA) October 2016

Another weekend trip to our favorite destination- Bend! We loaded up after work on Friday and used our time machine to turn our 8 hour drive into an hour flight. The flight down was clear and the mountains were all out! We get to fly by Mt. Rainer, Mt. Adams,

KRDM (Bend, OR) September 2016

Were heading to our 2nd home Bend for the weekend! This time we plan to stay in the downtown area and enjoy walking around. We did not know it at the time, but the Harvest Festival is going on just up the block from us. We book our room for