Paul Depperschmidt
Flights of Fancy
This blog will cover some of the aviation related things we were able to see on our trip up the East coast. Landing at First Flight...
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Paul Depperschmidt
- Mar 20, 2021
- 1 min
Time-lapse of loading the Kitfox!
The Video tells the story. This is how the plane goes in the trailer with the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk. The companion blog with...
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Paul Depperschmidt
- Jan 24, 2021
- 3 min
Moab - Arches National Park
Moab, Utah is a must-see target for most outdoor enthusiasts. And for good reason. It is a rare area that combines natural beauty, with...
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Paul Depperschmidt
- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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 13, 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...
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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...
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Paul Depperschmidt
- Jul 27, 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 17, 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...
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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...
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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...
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Paul Depperschmidt
- Feb 10, 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...
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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...
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Paul Depperschmidt
- Jan 9, 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 9, 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...
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