Lunch Break as a Safety Pilot to Salinas

Posted on Oct 31, 2011
Lunch Break as a Safety Pilot to Salinas

Today, I really had a chance to maximize the time in my new found freedom of being a solopreneur. I started the day like most days, checking my emails and doing the usual follow ups to make sure my clients are all being taken care of. I finalized a client web site (JulieBottarini.com) and made […]

Sunday Afternoon Surprise

Posted on Oct 30, 2011
Sunday Afternoon Surprise

The final flight in this recent series was yet another surprise for my girlfriend, Kaitlyn. We had planned to spend a Sunday in San Francisco (something we don’t get to do very often). Yet, earlier in the week, I’d realized that I hadn’t flown her since January of this year (over 9 months ago). So […]

Sharing the Dream

Posted on Oct 30, 2011
Sharing the Dream

My next two flights (in successive weeks) involved business flights up to Petaluma to visit my clients at KG Technologies. You might recall that it was my flights to KG last year that made me begin to realize that my dream of having my own company and flying myself to business meetings wasn’t far from […]

Mid-Summer Maiden Flights

Posted on Oct 30, 2011
Mid-Summer Maiden Flights

Laura and Rob’s Romantic Sunset Ride Two days after I returned from an amazing two weeks of trips abroad, I had the opportunity to fly my friend Laura and her friend, Rob, on a nice romantic Bay Tour flight. I’d flown Laura and her twins a year ago on a flight up to Santa Rosa […]

Passing the Torch

Posted on Oct 30, 2011
Passing the Torch

Wow…it’s been nearly three months since I wrote my last blog pilot on this site. I surely apologize for its being so long in between reflections. That’s not to say that I haven’t had great pilot experiences since that time or that I haven’t been reflecting on all the fun I’ve had and the moments […]