Starting the holiday trip thread.
Wow, is nobody else doing a holiday trip?
I missed this thread 'til now, but I had a great trip down to Texas in the DA40. Departed KMSN on Tuesday late morning, stopped for fuel at Monroe City, MO (K52), and when I flew over KVBT I looked down and saw Chip's hangar door was open and his truck parked out front. I haven't talked to him for a while, so I landed and taxied up and chatted with him for an hour or so. I was afraid he was going to stop flying since he sold his Bo and I had seen the Husky up for sale as well, but it turns out there's a Baron sitting where the Bo used to.
Anyway, I continued south, landing for fuel at Sherman, TX (KSWI) and then I stopped by Addison (KADS) and had dinner with Stu before hopping over to KFTW to spend the night. Hung out at Troy's for a while on Wednesday and he brought his girls out to see the plane, then I headed to Granbury (KGDJ) to top off before flying IFR the rest of the way to Houston (KEFD).
PJ should be here any minute, we're gonna go up... And the first leg on the way home on Sunday is going to be to Stephenville to meet up with Dave, Troy, Spike, et al for some BBQ at the Hard Eight.
This GA stuff is expensive - But I got to get here without dealing with the TSA or being cramped up in an RJ for too long, and I got to see several friends along the way as well as have a MUCH better view. Sweet.