Did both today and they took the same amount of time. We woke up, ate breakfast, and headed back into the National Park. Lucy was left at the Grand Canyon kennels and we headed off to the Bright Angel trail. 6 miles round trip from 6,700 ft at the rim to 4,500 ft at the…
Snow in Mexico!?
Well I don’t know if there was any snow in Mexico but New Mexico had some waiting for us when we woke up. Haven’t had to brush snow off our cars in quite some time… We got an early start on the day and arrived at the Grand Canyon around 4pm. It was a rough…
1475 down, 1125 to go
So we arrived in Santa Fe around 1ish today. We had plenty of time to explore this little sleepy town and kinda liked it. It was much smaller than we had thought (only 70,000 or so people live here) but there was a nice little downtown area full of shops and local street vendors. Tomorrow…
Hello “R-Kansas”
Who knows why Arkansas isn’t pronounced “R-Kansas” but it isn’t. Two things we do know is that a) the Clinton Presidential Library should stay open past 5pm (we got there around 5:07 and missed it) and b) the River Market area of Little Rock is pretty neat. There seems to be a lot of fun…
Goodbye Pensacola
Movers came on Tuesday and the whole house was packed in about 8 hours; 78 boxes in all! On Wednesday the movers returned and packed the entire house (including the 78 boxes) onto a semi truck. We scrubbed and cleaned all night and hit the road Thursday. Meredith and I have quite the road-trip planned. …
Naval Aviator #29842
This past week we celebrated with Phil as he became Naval Aviator #29842. Phil pinned on his “wings of gold” on Friday, February 27th at NAS Whiting Field. Following are some pictures from the event.
Time on Target…
Last Monday was far from the last flight I’ll fly in the Marine Corps but it was the last flight I flew as a student naval aviator. I officially finished flight school; no big deal… In a few weeks I’ll pin on my wings of gold and then it will be off to the fleet. …
Lucy joins the family
So it’s a bit of a late post but better late than never… Lucy ‘Pickles’ Wiktor joins the family. We got her in mid-December. Here’s a shot of her first bath; she’s having an awesome time if you can’t tell.
Off to the high seas
So it was a cold and blustery day and there I was… Or maybe it was all part of training. Either way, I ended up in the middle of the bay making radio calls to the IX-514 getting cleared to land. I had a ship ops flight today and was able to bring the camera…