Day 34 - Back in the South

From Tampa Bay, with a start date for work pending, we decided to start heading North up the east coast of the USA. The first day, with tail winds, we decided to put many of miles on the board. The night before we slept at Tampa Bay Aerosports hangar in the loft so we could get a really early start, on the big day we planned.
We took off just before first light, and covered the 200nm before touchdown at 9am at Keystone Airpark. The local instructor lent us his hybrid (electric/petrol) Honda civic to go down to the local restaurant for brunch. We filled up on gas and took off at 3pm North, just before a rain storm approached us from the South. Once we were airborne we worked through a little bit of rain but then flew out of the weather and headed for our next destination, Waycross.




The flying, was hard work on the arms, as it was quite thermic and to add to the extra stress, the country below us was quite marshy, full of trees with limited places to land at times. We pushed on, approached Waycross airport, did a circuit which included a downwind leg over the local state prison. The prisoners were all looking up at the strange aircraft, we imagine in hope that we would drop something nice down for them !!





The reception at Waycross airport was fantastic. We were out of Florida and back with the less sophisticated, more open Southerners.


After seeing all the facilities at this airport, including the free popcorn machine we immediately voted this airport, best so far. We were offered the lounge to sleep on that night, hangarage, courtesy car and then to top it all off – ice cold Beers ! We both slept like a log that night after a huge day in the saddle.