A Beautiful Day of flying in south Florida

Only a few short weeks left of flying in south Florida, so we are flying every chance we get. Also taking more photos than usual, hoping to capture the beauty of the area. This photo is my new favorite photo.

A Few More Florida Photos

Just wanted to post a few additional photos from a beautiful weekend of flying in Florida.

A Beautiful Weekend of Flying in Florida

Well, I haven't posted in months, and thought I'd post a few photos from our weekend. We were supposed to have stormy weather, but instead it was pretty nice. We really enjoyed flying up the coast of Florida for dinner at the airport at Vero Beach. There is a nice restaurant at the airport and a lot of local Florida retirees come there for dinner. It is a fun place to fly in and very pretty. Even though we are both looking forward to moving to Texas -- I do think we will miss a little of these beautiful Florida sites.

Venice

A few more photos of Venice.

Venice

Venice is a really special and unique city. It was a much larger city than we expected. We had bad weather there, but it was still fun.

The Vatican

Vatican City is a separate soverign state within Rome, and home to St. Peter's Basilica and some of the world's most famous art. I am not a huge fan of art, but the thing that was the most spectacular of everything was the Sistine Chapel. The famous ceiling that was painted by Michaelangelo. He started painting it in 1500. Here are just a few of the tons of photos we took.

Luis loved this ancient ruin area

This area is called the Castel Sant'Angelo, rising above the river. It served as an army barracks, papal citadel, imperial tomb and medieval prison. Today the 58 room museum traces the castle's near 2,000 year history.

The Coliseum in Rome

Another spectacular area of Rome -- the famous ancient Coliseum. The city has built up around this gorgeous ruin area, and you literally walk down a street and turn a corner and run into this gorgeous site. The whole city is breathtaking.

One of my favorite areas of Rome

This beautiful area is located right next to the famous Forum area, which is very near the Coliseum.

Luis at the Parthanon in Rome

I love this photo of Luis

The Spanish Steps in Rome

This is one of many gorgeous and famous places in Rome called the Spanish Steps.

Rome

We just returned from a fabulous trip to Rome and Venice. I was very fortunate to be able to go along with Luis on a business trip, and he was able to spend a few extra days with me exploring all the sites. I absolutely love Rome -- all the beautiful historical places. The city is 2,750 years old which is really hard to comprehend. Here are just a few of my favorites.

Check out our new Golf Cart

We bought this cute little golf cart to help us move our plane in and out of the hangar. Because of the hurricane "lip" of the hangar, it is difficult to push it back in. We were going to buy a "tug", but found this nice, used golf cart. It is really fun to drive, and we can actually drive it around the airport.

Back to Florida

And after two weeks of travelling in our small plane, we are now back in beautiful Florida. We spent the night in Daytona Beach because we were too tired to finish flying home. What a beautiful sight to see the beautiful beaches of Florida after flying over so many places of frozen tundra.

Landing at Charleston, South Carolina for fuel

We landed at Charleston on our way home for a quick turn around. Charleston is not only an international airport, but also an Air Force Base. So here are some photos of the very large military airplanes based there.