Three days until launch

It turns out there isn't much to report during the preparation of a trip like this. It could be that there isn't that much preparation. That's all changing because I am almost ready to go and now there is a lot happening.

The plane is all set. It had a clean annual in June as well as getting the WAAS upgrade on the Garmin 530. I had a 50 hour service done last week, which should last just about long enough to get me where I'm going and back.

I also had the good fortune to get a new-to-me camera, a like-new Canon 20D that I bought from a co-worker. I hope I am up to the task of getting some great photographic records of the trip.

The itinerary is pretty much finalized. It looks like this:

Day	Date	Route	Distance (nm)
1	7/19/07	KPAO-KSMO-KIGM	536
2	7/20/07	KIGM-KGUP	271
3	7/21/07	KGUP-KABQ-KSAF	155
4
5	7/23/07	KSAF-KOJA	394
6	7/24/07	KOJA-KDAL-KMIO	494
7	7/25/07	KMIO-KSPI	348
8	7/26/07	KPI-KPWK	160
9
10
11	7/29/07	KPWK-KBHM	515
13	7/31/07	KBHM-KMDH	280
14
15	8/2/07	KMDH-KSTL-KLNK	400
16	8/3/07	KLNK-U42	694
17	8/4/07	U42-KPAO	509

Hopefully I will have almost daily updates of my progress from here on.