By IVY McIVER. Being a pilot gives one a warped sense of time and distance. Seattle to Portland? About 40 minutes. Seattle to the San Juan Islands? About 30 minutes. I think nothing of jumping in the plane and popping up to Friday Harbor for dinner or Orcas Island for a bike ride while many […]
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Pure Adventure: An epic journey home
By IVY McIVER. The distance from Paducah, Kentucky, to Seattle, Washington, is 1,845 statute miles as the crow flies. My recent journey in an American Champion Citabria 7GCBC totaled 2,123 statute miles due to weather deviations and fuel stops. Though this particular leg started in Paducah, the journey really began about a year ago when […]
An Alaskan adventure
By IVY McIVER. “It’s like a magic carpet!” This is how my friend Wilma described the Cirrus SR22T on a recent trip from Seattle to Anchorage and back. A few weeks prior to my departure, I was talking about my upcoming flight to Anchorage and Wilma asked if she could ride along since I would be […]