Isaac Reynolds

I’ve added 15.5 hours to my logbook in the last 30 days, 7.7 of them on my most-complex trip yet.

Between March 2020 and May 2023, I took one flight. Since then, I’ve put in 18.3 hours. From rusty pilot to proficient, here’s what I (re-?)learned.

Pueblo is a popular cross-country destination thanks to its restaurant of the flight line and air museum a quick walk away from the tiedowns.

There were three important goals for this Labor Day long weekend: switch to mirrorless, pick fruit, and get engaged. Not necessarily in that order.

Some people collect national park stamps, or passport stamps. I like to collect America’s Byways.

It was the B roads, not the left side of the road, that caused a problem.

A summary of my checkride.

I like to joke that I’m a professional slide-deck maker. I’m not really joking.

I told every realtor I interviewed I would be looking in Erie and Longmont, which both had a good stock of homes I was interested in. One said “oh, if you’re looking in

Buying a home was hard and easy in ways I didn’t expect at all. Now that I’ve closed and moving in soon, it’s a good time to write up some of the most

In 2017 I told someone I had a Mazda3 and he said: “that’s a great car! Just keep up with the oil changes and it’ll last you two hundred thousand miles.” He probably

Choosing to move between states is both an emotional and a rational decision – and even in its rationality, is emotional.

I didn’t truly understand the message until I became a manager1. And maybe I still don’t. Isn’t that the point of this blog, after all: to show me, in my future, what I

I had to read six how-to pages from high-production-value sources to learn the key:

I’ve never been very goal-oriented; in fact, I wrote in one college admissions essay: “in place of [goals], I have a rule. I just work as hard as I can at everything I

Flying without flying

It’s any activity that simultaneously stretches your mind and body.