Crazy busy to crazy not busy

Yup. The story of my life lately.

I was super busy flying my ass of when doing that marathon flight last week that including transiting over most of the US and most of Canada within 3 days. Then we have times like right now where I haven't flown/worked in 3 days and now I'm about to go on my scheduled 3 days off. In the near future I see one flight coming up that's a trip to Kalispell down in the states, but that's right below the freaking border so all of an hour flight each way. I want to see more Palm Springs and Phoenix flights soon, they're great for racking up hours in the logbook, plus they're nice and warm destinations!

As for that flight down to Florida, what a disaster! We flew to the limits and then a little bit beyond. Hitting up Wichita Kansas, Marco Island Florida, then up to Latrobe Pensilvania which was only a stop so we could get adequate rest. The next day we continued on to Toronto where we swappend airplanes and kept on going all the way to Regina. A night in Regina where we both had the opportunity to eat a real meal (we had been working so none-stop that we really handn't eaten anything more than snacks the whole time). We went to Earls in Regina and each had big steaks with a couple of beers, ah the food never tasted so good! The next day we went to Edmonton and Penticton then to Vancouver for what should have been a drop off flight and then straight back home to Calgary empty. But we broke the plane in Vancouver and had to spend the night! Not a bad deal, except my entire family was on vacation in Mexico and we had housesitters at my house so I actually ended up spending the night in a hotel in my own home town! Oh well. The next morning the plane was all good to go and we flew home to Calgary. It was quite the trip, those 3 days accounted for 1 third of my monthly flying hours!

Well, time to get back to twiddling my thumbs here in Calgary. At least it's starting to warm up a bit.. we've spent a good week in the -20's! Brrrr... -7 ain't so bad right now!