This past weekend we flew to Michigan to Boyne Falls. This is what it looks like from the air.
We met with a group of folks that all have Commander airplanes. It’s a great group of folks. All crazy and fun! We did a fly out one day to Mackinaw Island. This is the view from out of the back window of the other planes lined up on the taxi way all ready to fly out together to Mackinaw.
You can see the prop in this shot of Mackinaw Island. The big white box you see is the Grand Hotel.
The great thing about Mackinaw Island is that there is no motorized vehicles. So when we all arrived and call for the taxi, this is what came to pick us up.
Life is definitely moving at a much slower pace on the island. It took 20 minutes to get from the little airport to the downtown area. This is the view from the “taxi” of the road leading to the Grand Hotel.
And the porch on the front of the Grand Hotel as we passed by in our “taxi”.
And another view of the hotel as we passed her by.
And this is the crew of pilots that made the trip over to Mackinaw. About 20 men and me!!! You wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to get them all moving in the same direction. It was just like herding cats!
It was a great afternoon and I’m so glad that I got to see Mackinaw Island. It is one of those places on my list to see and it was worth it. The day was gorgeous and I got lots of great photos for my reference file for painting. Maybe you’ll see one soon.
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