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Stories of Flying and Travel

These pages contain many large illustrations.


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If you would like to contribute a travel or flying story, you can include pictures - or just send a postcard. You may like to either say how enjoyable your travel was, or how appalling it was and to advise others to avoid such a route. On further consideration: You can write to us about anything you like: poetry, life, philosophy, engine maintenance, we can even publish your resume; please yourself. We would just enjoy hearing from you!



The first story is about a flight across Canada in a Cessna 172. It is a long essay.(32 Pages, 15,000 words). Click here FLIGHT TO POINTS WEST.

This is a story about a short cross-country flight which almost became a disaster. Click here to read "SUNGLASSES"

This story is about a very pleasant afternoon flight which turned into a three day adventure due to an encounter with fog. Click here to read "FOGFLITE"

This is an ongoing story about How We Learned to Sail a Small Boat - The Hard Way.

Over the past months I have written of the many errors I had made when flying with "Lady DYY" and friends of Guelph Airpark. On this occasion I had decided to make a longer flight by myself and to do everything exactly right. Warning - this is quite boring unless you are interested in flight planning 101. Click here to read The Perfect Flight.

This leads to a page linking to numerous postcards, with messages and letters about the weather in those locations and large illustrations. Click here to read "Postcards & letters from All Over"

An anonymous donor contributed this story concerning a short flight cross-country entitled CLICK HERE TO READ TITLE "KEEPING MY DISTANCE"

A trip to the U.K. September 2000. Various prices (out of sight!!) and means of travel. No pictures. Click here to view "UKTrip"

A fellow member of CARP has sent us a letter about an unfortunate cruise which she and her husband took in 1994. Click here to view "CARIBBEAN CRUISE I WOULD RATHER NOT HAVE TAKEN"

Another story about cruising. Click here to read "THINGS THE GLOSSY BROCHURES WILL NOT TELL YOU ABOUT CRUISING"

Click here to read A PLEASANT ONE-WEEK CRUISE TO ALASKA ON HOLLAND AMERICA'S WESTERDAM.

Click here to read ANOTHER PLEASANT ONE-WEEK CRUISE ON HOLLAND AMERICA'S WESTERDAM - TO THE BAHAMAS.

Another anonymous person has sent this story about her first cross country flight solo .. which is remarkable considering she was very afraid of flying. Click here to read "FLYING SOLO"

In memory of JFK Jr. and with reference to this tragic accident, our attention was drawn to the article "178 Seconds" received from Transport Canada Safety some years ago.

This lady resorted to evening classes to find a cure for her fear of flying.

And now .. some collected advice on that which we all love to hate: Click here to read: Packing for Travel.


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