Race adventure story telling continued

Greetings from New Hampshire. I’ve had a heck of a time with this blog posting program and will make more attempts to share information about our adventure. 

On Wednesday evening we looked ahead at the weather conditions, deliberated for a bit, re-fueled and opted to go for it on the next leg from Galesburg, Illinois to Auburn, Indiana. A handful of teams were already en route and many had not yet arrived through the line of storms over Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. 

We took a chance on the marginal conditions at our next flyby. 

After reviewing all of the information we had available to us we climbed up to 7500’ and sailed east towards Indiana. This leg included a time change so we also factored that into our schedule planning. We barely looked back as more bad weather was settling in on Galesburg. 

The last 30 miles or so into the flyby were low. We descends to <1000’ above the ground hoping the ceilings would permit us to complete the flyby with ARC and VFR minimums. We did it and were greeted by really friendly faces and tremendous hospitality.