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ONLY 11 STATES IN 2 1/2 WEEKS

pilotkms

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While Larry New was zipping around the 48 states in 7 days, my wife & i were on a more leisurely adventure. We made 15 stops in 11 states visiting friends, relatives and historical points. NO schedule - NO hurry.

My RV (aptly named VANESSA) just emerged from Art Craft Paint Shop in Santa Maria California and we needed to get it to our new home in Georgia.
here is a link to our route :
https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipNCrI9KdCQC5puaWk8Pm356Xdu1HzQcf9P1Ah5H
(hope it works)
My stats:
Departed Cable Airport KCCB on May 17th.
Miles flown - 3,992
Gas used - 218.97 gal - $1,112.09
Hobbs Hours - 30.8 Tach Hours 28.6
Added 1 Quart of oil

Arrived Perry-Houston GA KPXE on June 4th
Used 2 Courtesy cars, 1 hotel shuttle, 1 taxi and 1 rental car. friends provided transportation at 4 stops.

3 airports charged for overnite parking - 2 @ $5 and 1 @ $7. these appeared to be the most secure.

We had a GREAT adventure. VANESSA performed flawlessly. the wife is now planning new destinations.
 
Keith,

We just missed you at KPXE. We RON with family and left early on Friday, June 1st after eating plenty of boiled peanuts.
 
Larry - I saw u had my home port on your plan before u left and would have greeted u if I were here, but .....
They took pictures of u for our monthly newsletter. I?ll send u a copy when I get it next month.
U have inserting pictures figured out. If u have time and can share the secrets that evade me please PM me. I spent hours trying to make google photos work.
 
Keith,

What I do is put the pictures in a google blog. Super easy to create and free if you have a gmail account.

You don't even have to make it a "pretty" blog. I have one title "Aviation Photos" without text for photos I want to link in VAF. They are super easy to add from google photos. Of course, you can also do a traditional blog and link from the photos back to VAF. That's what I've done for 10 years and never had a broken link. Here's my building and now flying blog: http://larrys-airplane.blogspot.com/. I tried directly from google photos but they kept breaking.

With the photo in blogger, all you do is right click and "Copy Link Address". I do have to resize them in VAF but all you do is find in the link where it says /s1600/ and change to /s800/.

Hope that helps. If it's OK, I'll let you know when we're in town. We do visit as I have many relatives in the area.
 
Larry - thanx for the info. Will definitely try it.
Let me know when u are coming this way. Would be glad to see u here.
PLUS, just looked to see where your home base is and just so happens my sister lives in Austin, just up the road from u. I?ll be visiting her and will let u know when I?m headed that way.
 
We're not far from Austin and both kids (and now a granddaughter) live in Austin so we're up there often. Let me know and we'll find some good BBQ!
 
After many hours....

I think i figured it out :

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And the plane

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