Today didn't start out too well. Bob peeked out the window around 7-
ish and saw low clouds, mist, and... LOTS of crickets, so
we figured we were in no hurry to get up and at 'em. I eventually got online to check the weather. Six-hundred overcast at Junction, but 1200 broken at Fort Worth. If we were going to Fort Worth today, it meant going
IFR, but the longer we waited, the more the skies would improve.
Biscuits 'n' gravy, eggs and sausage were the highlighted offerings at breakfast, as were the Texas-shaped waffles. Ten minutes after we called Bill to pick us
up, he pulled up with as friendly a smile and "How y'all
doin'?" as we were given yesterday. The
ASOS was reporting 900 overcast on Bill's handheld aviation receiver and by the time we packed up the plane, filed our flight plan, topped off the tanks, and got our clearance it was up to 1200 overcast. Off we went into the wild,
gray yonder. Our
enroute cruising altitude was 7000 ft, which kept us anywhere between a few hundred feet above the cloud tops to in them for a few moments at a time. Skimming along these clouds with no turbulence at all was quite special. As we neared Fort Worth, the overcast layer below started to break up and bits of the green northeastern Texas
flatlands came into view. The
Slugg-Five
arrival followed by vectors to the RWY 34R
ILS got us lined up with the runway, a nice view of downtown, and an uneventful visual approach and landing (darn... no "real" instrument approach to log). After getting the car and checking into our room at the
Homewood Suites, we headed to Piranha Killer Sushi for dinner in the
Sundance Square section of Fort Worth and then to the
Texas Roadhouse for some
dessert before turning in. Tomorrow it's down to business for me, as I must attend a meeting at Lockheed Martin. The weather is looking good for the next leg of our trip on Thursday to
Asheville, NC.
Today's flight totals: 1.9 hours, 205 miles. Trip totals: 10.5 hours, 1144 miles, still just four states (Texas sure is a big one).
we figured we were in no hurry to get up and at 'em. I eventually got online to check the weather. Six-hundred overcast at Junction, but 1200 broken at Fort Worth. If we were going to Fort Worth today, it meant going IFR, but the longer we waited, the more the skies would improve. Biscuits 'n' gravy, eggs and sausage were the highlighted offerings at breakfast, as were the Texas-shaped waffles. Ten minutes after we called Bill to pick us 
up, he pulled up with as friendly a smile and "How y'all doin'?" as we were given yesterday. The ASOS was reporting 900 overcast on Bill's handheld aviation receiver and by the time we packed up the plane, filed our flight plan, topped off the tanks, and got our clearance it was up to 1200 overcast. Off we went into the wild, 
gray yonder. Our enroute cruising altitude was 7000 ft, which kept us anywhere between a few hundred feet above the cloud tops to in them for a few moments at a time. Skimming along these clouds with no turbulence at all was quite special. As we neared Fort Worth, the overcast layer below started to break up and bits of the green northeastern Texas flatlands came into view. The Slugg-Five 
arrival followed by vectors to the RWY 34R ILS got us lined up with the runway, a nice view of downtown, and an uneventful visual approach and landing (darn... no "real" instrument approach to log). After getting the car and checking into our room at the Homewood Suites, we headed to Piranha Killer Sushi for dinner in the Sundance Square section of Fort Worth and then to the Texas Roadhouse for some
dessert before turning in. Tomorrow it's down to business for me, as I must attend a meeting at Lockheed Martin. The weather is looking good for the next leg of our trip on Thursday to Asheville, NC. 
Today's flight totals: 1.9 hours, 205 miles. Trip totals: 10.5 hours, 1144 miles, still just four states (Texas sure is a big one).
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