bruceh
Well Known Member
Our daughter went back to CU Boulder this week. This time she wanted to take her car. It is an old 4 cylinder, manual transmission Jeep Cherokee with 220,000 miles. Not the most elegant cross country traveling machine. This is her final semester and she's graduating in December. Some of her friends are coming out for that when the time comes and they have planned a road trip of their own to get back to California. In all of the previous 3 years, I've made a bit of a vacation road trip in our motorhome to get her and all of her stuff out there, then hightailed it back so my wife could be back in time for her High School teaching job to start. Unfortunately, I couldn't take off work to get my daughter out there, so my wife decided to go along on the drive out there with her. Ironically, my work meetings this last week had me in Broomfield, CO, which is just down the road from Boulder.
They drove for 3 days and arrived to move in on Friday. I hopped in the trusty RV-9A on Saturday morning before the sun was up and headed to Boulder. Got there before noon. We met up and had a nice lunch, did some shopping (thankfully all of the moving in was done). We got up early again on Sunday and departed back to California so my wife could be at school on Monday. It's great when a plan comes together like this, and a great excuse to fly the same trip that we did last fall to visit Boulder.
The flight out took 5.1 hours with a fuel stop in Page, AZ. The trip back had some headwinds and a little bit of convective stuff to slow us down, so it took 6.0 hours with fuel and lunch in Page. Compare that with my commercial flights earlier in the week from San Diego to Denver which probably took longer with all of the hassles of driving an hour to/from each airport, TSA lines, and weather/flight delays.
It was HOT down low, so we flew pretty high 10500' to 13500', and used up almost all of our O2. We landed in Ramona, CA at 3pm with the temps at 103F.
What a weekend! Got to love these little homemade airplanes and their capabilities.
Check out the photos of our beautiful country here. Grand Canyon, Canyonlands, Lake Powell, Rainbow Bridge and Rocky Mountains.
They drove for 3 days and arrived to move in on Friday. I hopped in the trusty RV-9A on Saturday morning before the sun was up and headed to Boulder. Got there before noon. We met up and had a nice lunch, did some shopping (thankfully all of the moving in was done). We got up early again on Sunday and departed back to California so my wife could be at school on Monday. It's great when a plan comes together like this, and a great excuse to fly the same trip that we did last fall to visit Boulder.
The flight out took 5.1 hours with a fuel stop in Page, AZ. The trip back had some headwinds and a little bit of convective stuff to slow us down, so it took 6.0 hours with fuel and lunch in Page. Compare that with my commercial flights earlier in the week from San Diego to Denver which probably took longer with all of the hassles of driving an hour to/from each airport, TSA lines, and weather/flight delays.
It was HOT down low, so we flew pretty high 10500' to 13500', and used up almost all of our O2. We landed in Ramona, CA at 3pm with the temps at 103F.
What a weekend! Got to love these little homemade airplanes and their capabilities.
Check out the photos of our beautiful country here. Grand Canyon, Canyonlands, Lake Powell, Rainbow Bridge and Rocky Mountains.