Tried to do our day in pix, but the result wasn't to our satisfaction. The pix loss something in the uploading.
We left Decatur Illinois at 8 am and landed at Mason City, Iowa after passing the Mississipi River and various flooded areas, taking us about 2.7 hours. We ate an awful lunch at the airport restuarant, nothing but fried everything available. We flew on to Aberdeen SD, and got our first iffy weather outlook for the next leg. Chance of convective activity along our route. We decided to hightail it out of there and go take a look. We spent about twenty minutes all toll on the ground.
Thanks to Mary's weather depicting GPS we saw all the activity about 35 miles to our left for about an hour, after that it was clear but bumpy sailing into Miles City. 7 hours of flying today with long stretches of nothing to do but take pix. Our seats are sore.
We have only one leg remaining to the final destination on our trip to the race start which is in Bozeman and only a short one; less than two hours. This airport has mountains above 14000 ft surrounding it, so we want to go early in the morning to reduce the bounce.