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Dec 16, 2020
2 min

Lake Tahoe

Over the years we have visited Lake Tahoe many times. Some visits were in the summer, some were in winter for snow skiing. It has alway...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Dec 16, 2020
1 min

Crater Lake - Oregon

This post is almost all visual and video. But let's take a moment to discuss Crater Lake. Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United S...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Dec 5, 2020
2 min

The amazing Oregon Coast

Following our stay in Portland we decided a trip to the Oregon coast was in order. Our home base was Newport, a coastal town that caters...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Dec 4, 2020
2 min

Columbia River

One of the key stops on our tour of the west was Portland, Oregon to visit with our daughter, Amanda, and her boyfriend, John. We settle...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Nov 15, 2020
2 min

San Juan Islands

Anyone who has used Microsoft Flight Simulator is likely familiar with Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands of NW Washington State. It ...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Nov 14, 2020
1 min

Leavenworth, WA a fun Bavarian Town

As we were moving west we needed a stay in the center of Washington state. We found a Thousand Trails (we can stay on our account for fr...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Nov 13, 2020
1 min

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Long ago when we drove from Texas to Seattle to pick up the Kitfox, we passed through a town call Coeur d'Alene. Even from the interstat...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Jul 28, 2020
5 min

New Mexico, Texas, dodging Covid

2020 just keeps on giving... Our Covid lock down in Arizona was better than most people had to deal with. But eventually we had to move...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Apr 18, 2020
2 min

Sedona Flying

A guaranteed boredom crusher as everyone is at home waiting out the CV-19 virus. These are raw videos taken from the plane in the early ...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Mar 31, 2020
2 min

North Grand Canyon Flyover

My original theory with the website during the Covid-19 era was to shut it down until things open up again. It seemed cold to show "vaca...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Mar 9, 2020
3 min

Page, Lake Powell & Monument Valley

Somewhere in the back of my mind our adventures revolved around an image of the American West. To fly our plane through some of these ic...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Mar 8, 2020
2 min

Sedona - Part 2 - WOW

Sedona has earned a reputation for breathtakingly beautiful scenery. We had been to Sedona once before, but there is no way to see it al...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Feb 11, 2020
2 min

Winter in Lake Havasu,

Following Quartzite our next stop was Lake Havasu. This is clearly an area focused on warmer weather boating and water activities, but t...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Feb 4, 2020
1 min

Quartzite and Newmar Rally

Remember the movie "Independence Day"? While in the desert in Quartzite, AZ attending a Newmar Rally we watched the movie for the first ...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Jan 23, 2020
2 min

Flying in the LA Area

It is intimidating. This airspace is easily the busiest I have flown in. Even the NYC area did not seem as tight or daunting. There ar...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Jan 10, 2020
1 min

THIS is why I have a plane along.....

Just outside of Tucson, AZ. OK, the muffler broke again in the flight, but flying the west is VERY cool.

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Paul Depperschmidt

Jan 10, 2020
3 min

Big Bend - Texas

It may not be as remote as the moon, but it is in the same zip code... Big Bend is not a place you accidentally stumble upon. It is a h...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Dec 10, 2019
3 min

Laid up in Central Texas

Back in Branson, MO we had a bit of a problem when traveling with the circus. Based on some bad information we found ourselves in a cul-...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Dec 10, 2019
1 min

Fall in Gatlinburg, TN

As we wrapped up the Bourbon Tour our group headed south to Gatlinburg, TN. We have been there before, but the amazing beauty of the are...

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Paul Depperschmidt

Oct 16, 2019
2 min

Flying Kentucky

While we worked our way through the Bourbon Trail I was able to get in some pretty good flying as well. While at the Bardstown airport o...

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