http://wackytravels.com/wordpress Here Heather and I can document our travels abroad Sat, 01 May 2010 02:13:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last weekend on April 24th Heather and I went on our second flight together and our first cross-country trip. We flew out to Castle Airport (MER) in Merced, CA. We had been to this airport before, but on the ground, as part of past autocross events we attended with the ... http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2010/05/01/our-first-cross-country-trip/ Since my last post I've flown a few more times. I've been using the radio to talk to ground control to get our taxi clearance and on the last flight I talked to tower for our initial approach clearance. For whatever reason this is a bit of a nerve racking ... http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2009/08/17/more-flying/ I've started private pilot training and have decided to use this otherwise-unused blog to document my adventure. As a pilot, or pilot in training, I have a logbook that is used to document every flight I take. It shows where I've flown, what I did and how long I was ... http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2009/08/10/really-wackytravels-flying-ourselves/ We're home! After 3 weeks of reasonably busy traveling we've finished all of the major travel we plan to do this year. I've already flown 100,000 miles this year and Heather is close behind with 70k. The honeymoon trip we just finished was fantastic and we're both filled with many ... http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2008/09/10/kyoto-osaka-and-nara-photos/ Here they are, New Zealand in all of the glory that I could capture in our 10 days there. We drove over a significant portion of the north island. We did a sail boat trip in Auckland, did these Luge things and drove sprint cars in Rotorua, played golf in ... http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2008/09/01/new-zealand-photos/ Proof. We came, we saw, we conquered, the Gold Coast of Australia http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2008/08/22/australia-pictures/ We landed in Auckland this afternoon and we're just getting settled at the hotel. We opted for a GPS and a name brand rental car this time and on both counts we're feeling they were worth the extra couple of dollars. The New Zealand dollar is much nicer to us ... http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2008/08/22/new-zealand-here-we-are/ We took the 14 hour flight out of SFO last night in style, 1st class! The flight was great, we slept the majority of it and relaxed the rest of it. We landed around 6:30AM in Sydney and then found our way over to the domestic terminal to hop up ... http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2008/08/17/were-in-australia/ I'm back in Bangalore. It was my idea; but the project (different from when I was here last time) needed it. So here I am. I bought tickets on Friday and flew on the following Tuesday. After burning a few miles for an upgrade I got to experience United's new ... http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2008/07/19/back-in-bangalore/ Today was my last day in the office here in Bangalore. I finished the year off with a phone conference in the morning, 4 interviews, the debrief from the interviews, an exit interview of sorts with the boss, a going away celebration and final chats with 3 of my colleagues. ... http://wackytravels.com/wordpress/2008/05/23/were-like-done/