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We climed through some big holes and soon were zipping
across the skies at 12,500' as it became undercast
below. We navigated around the biggest tops and the
area of the storm and sometime over South Dakota or
Nebraska we were in the clear. With some rain over
the mountains in Idaho, we elected to take a more southern
route and fly over I-80 to the KSLC area and then up. This
would also allow us to keep our altitudes a little lower
than some other routes.
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As we flew to our intended stops, we caught a good fuel
price on the iPad and decided to drop in on KVTN,
Valentine, NE, for some fuel. Andrea took this leg
of flying and had us down smooth and back up in the air
for our next leg in no time.
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We got into the higher ground but stayed at 10,500' hoping
to avoid the bumps...we were unsuccessful, being tossed
around a bit...unusual for traveling in the RV-10 where we
can climb and get out of it, but we wanted to stay at
10,500' if possible. A check of the WSI showed that
our home area was getting hit by the storms, and we were
glad to be gone.
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Our 2nd gas stop was in KEVW, where Scott and Sean had
told me was normally a good fuel price. There was
also cheaper fuel nearby but we were hoping for a bite to
eat so stuck with the larger of the 2 airports.
Then soon enough we started to see the mountains of Oregon
coming into view. It's awesome flying into Oregon,
because you know when you're getting close. We
always end up flying right by Mt. Hood, which is great to
see, and off in the distance you can see some of the other
mountains such as the Three Sisters, Mt. Bachelor and Mt.
Jefferson to the South, then Mt. Adams, St. Helens, and
Mt. Ranier to the North. It was pretty spectacular
on the way in and we could see them all with the exeption
of Ranier that perhaps we could see, but it was far enough
away I didn't notice if we saw it or not.
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So it was a great flying day, with a bit over 10 hours in
for the trip, due to our reroute. We later found
ourselves at Walmart, which as the kids say "it isn't a
vacation unless we go to Walmart" because we seem to
alwasy forget or need something that they have. The
next day we spent our time flying over to Garmin a couple
of times to get Ed's radio fixed, and get some shopping
done.
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