Oct 13 Fri ~ Cold Relapse Spent all day @ condo except for short coffee run to Dume ... Cold returned with a vengeance .. was able to do a little trip planning to Farmington Made some calls to FBO's & rental cars
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Airport Diner - Pastrami Sandwich / Potato Salad / and a Kick Ass Malt .. Love this place and they love Blu Its one of only two places I've found that takes Blu Not sure this meal is on my Diet Plan but I decided a Pre Celebration Anticipating getting Re Certified on my IFR and sure enough, here's Chris adding endorsement to my logbook we flew three approaches into OXR & CMA plus a hold .. lat in the dark .. night landing ( first in a .. years ..) Finishing with Chris was the only thing holding me in Malibu. Now Blu & I will head home via Durango & Marfa. Durango - want to look at a few homes I found in Zillo .. Marfa to check out the all the hype.
Wed Oct 11 ~ Longsolo ~ Flat ~ Santa Monica Pier ( again!) Flew to Bakersfield this morning .. T&G at BFL RNAV 12R .... Going over at 6,000' had to follow coast to work around mountain ridges ... series of them Finally dropped down into the Central Valley where Bakersfield is .. agriculture everywhere ... This series of valleys run all way north in Calif Landed at Bakersfield and took off again headed south You can see tip of airport at wing tip Going back flew over thousands of oil wells .. each little spot .. these are very old wells that are hanging in there .. I'm surprised Calif hasn't figured a way to shut them all in .. The Valley is watered by these canals .. not sure if the source is Co River ... of course water rights here are big deal .. otherwise valley's like this one would dry up ... One of my goals on this flight .. since I had a lot of time was to get Power Poi
Mon Oct 9th ~ Santa Ana Winds!!! Blu Zuma Event Santa Ana winds !! 40+ knots from the EAST I had to get out and turn my plane around to face EAST .. damn FBO had it facing wrong way ... beating up my pretty little plane The FBO I'm at didn't have a tug .. so I had to get another guy & turn it by hand .. no tug!! This is pic from restaurant on the field Big Surf has destroyed our condo beach .. so drove south to Zuma beach .. beautiful. Got Blu out and the first thing he did was take a dump in front of a life guard patrol. .... they were in shock like they didnt' know what Blu was ( a dog ) and what that pile of stuff was ( shit ). I was told Bluntly NO DOGS ON THE BEACH and would I pick up his mess!! I asked him where the dog dump dispenser was .. he said they had none because NO DOGS ARE ALLOWED ON THE BEACH I told him to just cover it with sand & all will be well .. and left .... THIS PLACE .. hate it more every day ..
Oct 8 ~ Surf's Up ~ Short Flight ~ Mailbu Yuk Although its hard to see it this pic ... sets of 12' waves have been rolling in for the past few days Tons of surfers .. who begin at sun up ... continue to sundown ... took this @ 630 AM .. surfers out Completely wiped all the sand from the beach .. now all rocks Pounds the bottom of condo as rocks bounce off the support piers ... Very Cool actually Got to airport before FBO was open ... needed fuel but no one around !! So just shot one approach into same airport .. nice ... Airport restaurant was packed for breakfast so ran some errands in Camarillo ( another dog collar .. he keeps destroying them) Decided to drive to Malibu to find a nice beach / breakfast restaurant which was dog friendly ... ZIP Also the people I ran into ( TONS Arabs) driving stupid expensive cars were all assholes ... people in Malibu have way to much $ and work hard to show it ..... got me to wondering why I came ... decided Malibu
Sun / Mon Oct 1 - 2: Kristin Meal Plan / LA Drive / LightSpeed Headphones Blu likes to sit on back porch & people / dog watch .. keeps him busy .. Geology along PCH is diverse .. each cut looks totally different and mixed PCH is along the San Andres fault line .. plates clash get pushed up so you get all sorts of weird stuff I tried to google to for published information but couldn't find anything Kristin send me a Menu based upon her job where they're trying to get Mexican's to lose weight ... I can't imagine Mexican's eating any of these things ... LOL .. But I'm going to give it a shot Decided to drive to Beverly Hills for fun .. 3 hours later .. never again. Bought some new headphones .. LightSpeed 3's .. the Bose I have are refurbished and the noise canceling don't work .. hopefully these will help me follow the controllers here who talk like auctioneers