Last night Toledo. NYC tonight!

The great adventure begins! The family drove me to San Jose airport for a 9am departure headed east! Fair winds helped us travel over 220 knots for most of the way. First stop was Greeley, Colorado, home of the 3 burger rated airport restaurant (for more info on the which goes into detail). Unfortunately it closed by the time we had arrived! It is almost impossible to find the right place to fly to which is a mix of distance, weather, fuel price, hamburger rating, runway length and course direction!

The guy at the Greeley FBO, Peak Aviation, let us borrow a car and we drove downtown to find a reasonable Mexican food restaurant.

With the plane and our bodies refueled we were off further east. We had planned to go to Defiance, OH but after reaching cruise and avoiding the thunderstorms just past Denver we pulled the power back to conserve fuel and found we could reach Toledo with 45 minutes of fuel reserve.

Free internet at the hotel, a download from the camera (a 15 year wedding anniversary present from Eli last week - good timing sweetie!) and I can upload the story so far.

• Pictures from June 11th


• $100 Burger

We are on our way to New York City for the day. Tonight John Fulton will join us for the crossing. That's when the adventure really begins!