Flying home with my new wife one week after our wedding, on the last 1 hour
leg of a 10 hour weekend round robin flight from Iowa City - Clarinda,
Iowa - New Hudson, Michigan - back to Clarinda- back home to Iowa City.
It had been a long, interesting, and tiring trip that had us go west to pick
up the in-laws, go east to Michigan to be with my family for the weekend,
then drop them back home before heading home ourselves.

I handled all sorts of challenges during that flight, including weather,
turbulance, and short fields with a heavy airplane. I learned a lot, and
kept my passengers happy. By the time we left Clarinda for the push home,
the hubub of the weekend was behind us, the weather cleared up, the headwind
turned into a tailwind, the plane was several hundred pounds lighter, and
getting home became a flight to remember.

It felt great on that last leg to relax, with my beautiful wife to my right,
in beautiful weather, with a strong tailwind, taking the breathtaking Iowa
landscape in and enjoying every minute of it. Life was perfect.

Shortly afterwards, my wife expressed an interest in learning to fly :-)

-Aviv