Saturday-back in Arkansas + Hillbilly dispute

We are back at the Markham House with an early morning chemo appointment. We are scheduled again on Sunday and then hope to return to Ga. Sunday afternoon. Deb departed and arrived very tired.

Thursday night late when I tried to update this blog I found that our internet had gone south. We left home early Friday morning with a developing weather system across our route of flight. The pix of our Garmin GPS XM weather shows the route from Talladega,Al to North Little Rock, Ark.

Most of the weather from the top left corner (Alexandria, La) to the red and yellow blob near Columbus, Ms. joined hands and blocked our path. In fact, by the time we got to the left edge of the blob, it had expanded and become a severe thunderstorm over Columbus AFB, shutting down their operations. We heard the controllers putting the AF planes into holding patterns and considering diverts as the weather pounded them. We were able to zoom in on the satellite XM weather and pick our way between storm cells with barely a ripple. You can see our zig-zags on www.flightaware.com
Use our private flight tail number N353RV on the block on the left.

Because Gracie is so fast, we are able get through openings in the weather that slower planes might not be able to get through. This is a typical summer weather pattern. If it happens on future trips our best option is to fly as close to the bad weather as we can, land, and wait out the storm. Then continue to our destination.

Finally, the writer once said that 'everyone talks about the weather but no one ever does anything about it!'

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HillBilly Dispute-No kidding! This is for real

The main airport here in Little Rock was renamed a few weeks ago in honor of Bill and Hillary Clinton. It is greatly disputed in the local paper and TV news.

To put Hillary's name first was in the original plan, but that was changed when authorities realized that would be transliterated from Hillary-Bill Clinton International to  Hil-Bill Clinton International to Hillbilly International.  Anyway, the controversy here is interesting!

Blessings all!