Back in the Lower 48

Yesterday was our biggest day as far as distance flown. Plagued by bad weather for many days we wanted to get as far as the weather would allow.

With our new friends who we'd now been traveling with for several days, we enjoyed a dinner together at Mr Mikes in Grande Prairie, Alberta and then went back to our hotel to flight plan. From here we were all going in different directions but still worked as a team to explore routes and options.

We chose to head across the Prairies to Saskatoon as the weather had pretty much passed on through there. We ended up going from there to Minot, North Dakota passing through a lot of rain showers that would be rapidly developing into storms in a few hours. We made our 4.30pm appointment with US Customs at Minot and found ourselves back in the USA. As the weather was once again catching up to us from the west, we chose to fly another leg across the plains and made it into Duluth International by 8.30pm local time. We had pretty much flown from the Rocky Mountains in Canada to the Great Lakes in the USA in one day.

The late evening flight across the plains was in beautiful evening weather and we enjoyed finding all the small towns on the map we passed over and watching the checkerboard farmland drift by underneath us.