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  • Sun ‘n Fun 2012

    Harold Yanofsky and I flew to Plant City Florida to attend Sun ‘n Fun held in near by Lakeland March 27. We had a great flight down, landed, tied down and were at the event in time for lunch. Sun ‘n Fun includes loads of static displays by all the GA aircraft manufactures, war bird,

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  • A Quick Trip To California

    Our best friend Bruce Edwards was being honored by the University of California, Davis (Cal Aggie) so we decided to sandwich a quick trip to California between our Bahamas trip and a golf trip to Florida. Life is tough! We flew to Los Angels, to visit Joyce’s brother Ray and his companion Sue on February

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  • Sonoma California

    Saturday we had breakfast a the Big Three at the Sonama Mission Inn, then headed out to do some wine tasting. The objective was some Zinfandel and we heard about a great one at Kunde vineyard. We also wanted to see if the Matanzas Creek vineyard was still producing quality Merlot. It was a perfect

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  • Sunday in San Francisco

    We had a leisurely breakfast at the Sonoma Mission Inn and headed for San Francisco for lunch. Fisherman’s Wharf and dunginess crab for lunch was the objective. It was a great winter day in S.F. and we strolled the wharf and took in the tourists and other sights, then succumbed to the smell of fresh

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  • On January 17, Joyce and I left Hilton Head a day earlier than planned due to weather moving into our departure point. We originally planned to fly to Fort Lauderdale, refuel and fly on to Cat Island in the Bahamas. We instead would spend the afternoon with our Florida family and leave the next morning

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  • Cat Island

    On Friday January 20, I was back to full strength and ready to fly to Cat Island. We took off at 10:00 AM and landed around noon. Our route of flight took us by Bimini, over Nassau, South of Abaco to Cat Island then to New Bight, MYCB, mostly within sight of an island. New

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  • Turks and Caicos

    On January 22, we departed Cat Island for the short twenty minute flight to Stella Maris, MYLS, to refuel and clear customs out of the Bahamas. We were in the air in forty five minuets and on our way to the Providenciales, in the Turks and Caicos. We arrived after the one hour and twenty

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  • Christmas Holiday 2011

      Our friends the Yanofskys sent us a card with the “Just Relax” advice, which was so appropriate for the Christmas holiday. The Montgomerys arrived the Thursday before Christmas from Fort Lauderdale. Friday was spent doing the final preparation and Alexandra visited Santa Claus. Saturday the Prados otherwise known as the traveling circus arrived. Heidi

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  • Christmas Day

    Everyone arrived at Grandma and Grandpa’s house at 8:30 Christmas morning filled with excitement. It was apparent that Santa had stopped and left lots of gifts during the night. What then ensued could best be described as a childrens gift frenzy. Packages were ripped open, paper was flying, gifts of clothes were quickly tossed aside

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  • Thanksgiving 2011

    The Prado’s celebrated Thanksgiving with Gary’s family so Joyce and I flew from Hilton Head to Fort Lauderdale on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Except for head winds, it was a great flying day and we arrived by noon. We met Jennifer for lunch and picked Alexandra up from school. Mike came home form his office

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