The last word

A few last words.

The photo left is our actual GPS tracks eastbound (red) and westbound (yellow), displayed in Google Earth.

I uploaded all the GPS breadcrumb tracks for each leg here www.nymble.ca/fly/gps . They display in Google Earth and can be zoomed in or out right down to even see exactly which taxiway or runway we used. There are a couple of oops - like where I forgot to turn it on until after takeoff (I was little busy and enabling the breadcrumb trace isn't part of the standard checklist!). For some reason, the ThunderBay - Wawa leg wouldn't convert at all, so it's missing. At least all you Google-Flyers stranded in Kenora can make it back home now.

All our photos are uploaded to www.nymble.ca/photos, separated by flight day. I'll get around to putting captions on them soon and delete the duds; it's a little boring if you don't know what you're looking at.

We were gone for 20 days, not including the first 8 days we waited for the rain to go away in Vancouver before starting, although we only managed to fly on 13 days due to unacceptable weather. I only got as far as Quebec City, instead of Nova Scotia, but every day was an adventure; even sitting at airport(s) for hours and hours, waiting for weather to improve, we got to talk with local pilots and airplane enthusiasts.

FPAK, the Cessna C172R airplane we rented, was great and operated without any problems. I guess I'll have to admit the non-French-speaking transponder was somehow pilot error.

Pete has volunteered us to do a pilot information session at Pacific Flying Club sometime in October, to talk about our experience and route and show a few pictures.

And we had such a great time that Pete has already reserved the airplane for next year!