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  • Michigan

    After lunch in Duluth, we flew the roughly two hour hop to Harbor Springs at the upper end of Lake Michigan. Nice airport and we were quickly tied down with the help of Neil from the town FBO, who brought our rental car to the plane. It was a short 15 minute drive to the

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  • Fourth of July Week

        The family tradition is to get together in South Carolina for the fourth of July. This year was particularly interesting and challenging since the family get together was mandatory and two boards that I serve on have their big annual event at the end of the week. Where there is a will there

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  • Migration 10 Duluth

    On Thursday July 5th. Joyce and I launched early from Hilton Head Island for Dayton. Three hours later we touched down in Dayton and Joyce headed to our Dayton home. I refueled N426GW and was joined by my flying buddy Bill McNabb for the four plus hour flight to Duluth. We bucked head winds the

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  • Dayton Air Show

    On Sunday July 8th. we attended the Dayton Airshow. It was hot, but not as hot as the day before so attendance was up from Saturday. As usual it was a great show enhanced by clear skies. There was the usual static display of military, civilian and vintage war bird aircraft. The flying started around

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  • We departed Fort Lauderdale at 9:30 for North Eleuthera with perfect weather. Most of the 25 plus planes had overnighted in Fort Pierce and we soon became aware of a gaggle of Cirrus heading for our destination island. The flight was the typical beautiful trip over absolutely beautiful water. We were one of the first

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  • Friday was a day of “optional side activity” which included a organized scuba diving excursion, a shopping trip and tour of Harbor Island’s best shops. The Bahamian tourism bureau had arranged for discounts for COPA at select shops, which had a welcome COPA sign on their door. Everyone headed for their favorite form of adventure,

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  • The Coral Sands deck overlooking the pink sand beach was the place for the group reception and dinner. A Bahamian band played before during and after dinner, and the people from the Bahamian Tourist bureau joined us for the festivities for a very jolly evening.

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  • Saturday and Sunday

    Saturday was a day of “optional side activity” such as snorkeling, continued site seeing and shopping or just hanging out. The weather was a big topic since a tropical disturbance had moved into the Bahamas and the Keys moving in our direction. It was overcast but warm, with the trade winds picking up. We relaxed,

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  • On our way to the Bahamas we stopped in Fort Lauderdale to visit Jen, Mike and Alexandra and have an early Birthday dinner for Gil. We had a great flight down, lunch with Jen and then picked Alexandra from school. We then drove to the stables near the school for Alexandra’s weekly riding lesson. Joyce

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  • Easter 2012

    Heidi, Gary, Brenn, Caitlin and Kinsey Prado met Joyce and I at Spring Island for Easter Sunday festivities. The Easter egg hunt was a success judging from the eggs collected and sugar consumed. The kids loved the play ground particularly the tree house and swings, with lots of energy expended to work up an appetite

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