Winging It

AirVenture 2009 – Part 2

August 3, 2009
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/ By tom

After coffee and donuts at the Aces Cafe, Saturday morning found us back at the Forums Plaza. I chose the Safe Single Pilot IFR presentation for this session. Now that I have started on my instrument rating, this is of special interest to me. I picked up some good tips from Doug Stewart’s talk. We […]

AirVenture 2009 – Part 1

August 3, 2009
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/ By tom

Georgia and I left for Oshkosh early Friday morning and got to Whittman Field about 9AM. Just in time to get our wrist bands and make it over to Forums Plaza for Rod Machado’s 10 o’clock presentation. So, we got to start off the show with a good laugh. After watching Rod, we walked down […]

Back From St. Louis and Looking Forward to Oshkosh

June 1, 2009
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/ By tom

Georgia attended the Klic-N-Kut digital die cutting seminar in St. Louis over the weekend and I tagged along. She learned a lot while I got to relax for a few days. I did help out with some video recording of the sessions and helped the ladies carry their machines but, for the most part, I […]

Hawaii Cruise – Part 4

May 11, 2009
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/ By tom
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Waikiki, Oahu – Friday morning, April 24, our cruise ended. We left the ship, collected our luggage in the terminal and caught a cab to the Outrigger Waikiki on the Beach. We would be staying there for the next three nights. We checked in about 11 AM but our room wasn’t ready yet so we […]

Hawaii Cruise – Part 3

May 4, 2009
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/ By tom

Kailua-Kona, Hawaii – We had no pre-planned tour in Kona so it was a shopping day. Getting off the ship proved to be more difficult than expected though. This was another tender port but rough waters were making getting everyone ashore a slow process. At one point, tendering was stopped while the crew switched the […]

Hawaii Cruise – Part 2

May 4, 2009
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Hilo, Hawaii – After our five sea days, we made our first port call at Hilo. I was out on the balcony as the ship entered the harbor and tied up to the pier. I wanted to see the mountains inland but, a moderately dense layer of vog limited visibility. This cloud of sulfurous volcanic […]

Hawaii Cruise – Part 1

May 4, 2009
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/ By tom

Chicago to San Diego – We left Chicago O’Hare for San Diego early on Saturday, April 11. Our cruise didn’t start until Sunday but we flew out a day early to avoid any airline delays that might cause us to miss the ship. Spending the night at the Hilton San Diego Airport/Harbor was our insurance […]

Back From Hawaii

April 30, 2009
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/ By tom
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We got back from our cruise to Hawaii very early on Tuesday morning. It was a great trip. I will be posting a detailed report once I get caught up here at work and have a little more free time.

On Our Way to Hawaii

April 11, 2009
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/ By tom

Georgia and I will soon be off on our next adventure. In the morning, we are leaving for a cruise to Hawaii. We will fly to San Diego tomorrow and spend the night there. On Easter Sunday we will check in with Carnival Cruise Lines at the Port of San Diego before being transported to […]

Baltic Cruise Part 4 – Sea Days, Amsterdam, Back Home

September 6, 2008
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/ By tom

August 27-28 – Sea Days Two sea days in a row to relax and just enjoy cruising! The seas were the roughest of the trip but not so bad as to be really uncomfortable. We slept in both mornings, spend time on the balcony, did some duty free shopping in the onboard shops,lost a little […]

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