May 9 Debrief

Well the 5th day of our adventure is in the books and it went exactly as planned. We left Boulder City and flew about an hour to Furnace Creek Airport in Death Valley(lowest airport in the US is checked off the list). We flew at a relatively low altitude and saw alot of desert and not much else. It was beautiful in it own way. We were somewhat surprised that it was a comfortable temperature when we got there and the was some civilization close by the airport. We took some pictures and left for Chino CA.

Mike took the lead and did all the radio work to talk to air traffic control to get us into a very busy airspace. He made it look easy. Thanks Mike, from all of the Skydogs. We landed at Chino as a flight of 3 and we met Barry who is a friend of Mike's brother Ron. He has a hanger and a few very nice airplanes at the airport. We were also joined by Joe and Lucille Nix who flew out from Georgia to meet us and enjoy the sights. It was good to see them. We enjoyed lunch and the air museum at the Chino Airport and then dinner. For dinner we were joined by one of Mike's high school buddies Steve Gibson. A good time was had by all. Thanks for sharing our experience.

Time seems to have warped for all of us. What day is today? When were we there? are questions that have  been asked many times. Seems the whole day revolves around the flight but it has been great and we all look forward to what the next day has in store.

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Tomorrow's plan is to leave Chino and fly to Santa Paula. We hope to have Ron (Mike's brother) and friend Tom Barbre fly into Chino and then fly with us to Santa Paula for sightseeing and lunch. From Santa Paula we will fly to Montery for the night. Hope to see Mike's sister-in-law there.

Just to let you know, we have flown 19.5 hours so far which is about 3000 miles in 5 days.

Onward!
Darrell