Los Angeles downtown and Dodger Stadium Van Nuys airport.

Los Angeles downtown and Dodger Stadium

Van Nuys airport

Lake Casitas

Santa Barbara

Wildfire TFR

Oceano Approach

Safely on the ground at Oceano

Marine Layer from the ground

Sundown over Oceano

Starting all over again in the morning

Emerged underneath after waiting for a while

Carrizo Plains Soda Lake

St Joaquin Valley south of Bakersfield

Climbing up to Tehachipi

Rosamond Lake waiting for ATC to acknowledge

Pisgah Lava Field, I 40 & Hwy 66

Roads going nowhere

Back at the Colorado

Nothing to disrespect

On the way to Payson

Storms to the left

Storms to the right

Finally - End in sight

Snuggled up to a flatbed trailer to stay out of the weather

Early rise

Enjoying the scenery while everything is still calm

Love to maneuver

Not all that friendly looking

But plenty of room for a small plane

Over Angel Fire airport (7170 ft), looking north at Eagle Nest Lake

Ducking once more

Descending into the foothills

Raton, friendliest airport on the whole trip

Isolated thunderstorms everywhere

Pretty above, but hell underneath – let’s climb

Don’t want to stay up here too long

Salt Plains NWR, OK and time to descend

Dropping into Anthony, KS out of stormy skies – again fueled up by Police after calling 911

Home Run -

• The final leg to Lee’s Summit was one heck of an endurance test

• Low ceilings, haze, isolated thunderstorms and brutal turbulence kept me more than busy

• While I always maintained a safe margin of control, there was not a chance for holding a camera steady enough to shoot pictures.

So, was it boring?

• Here is my answer: