Less than three days to go before I leave for one of my best adventures yet. My mother has described me as an adrenalin junkie. I prefer to think of myself as bouncing up against the edges of life. Yes, this means I take a few calculated risks but I think most of them are manageable and well worth the taking.
I have bought a plane. What a dream.
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| EC-JIA at home in Santarem, Portugal 30 June 2012 |
It is a Piper Saratoga II HP built in Florida, USA in 2003 and having spent most of its life in England, Spain and Portugal. It currently lives on the Spanish Register with the code EC-JIA, having previously been N3053R. It is soon to become VH-SMY.
When I bought it, there was no question about how it was going to come home to Australia. No chance this bird was going to be trussed up in a cage and put on a boat. She was birthed with wings and she is going to fly. And I am going to fly her (with some help).
This blog is intended as nothing more than a place for my friends and family to follow along for the ride.
Good to see this, Ton, and I hope you can keep up the blog.
ReplyDeleteHave checked SPOT me, and see you are, or were, in beautiful down town Santarem, close by the river, and not to far from centre of Lisbon.
I'd guess this is hotel.
Trust all negotiations go well today,
Love, Dad.
12.30pm my time 8.30am yours. Tracking south of Madrid. Will you fly over Palermo?
ReplyDeleteFor all of you worrying why there is no blog posting from yesterday, I just received a text from Tony saying that he has no internet coverage. While I was calming myself this morning at 6 am, I had come to that conclusion. He also has little mobile coverage as voice is not connecting. They are waiting to check out to head to Bahrain tonight.
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