Puffy rain clouds

Starting my descent towards the next POI as I approach Tampere

Low and slow for my pass over Turku, flying by the oil storage and shipyards outside the city

Reaching the Verrazano-Narrows bridge that marks the entry to the Hudson SVFR. Sadly it's a photogrammatic bridge not an actual model but serves its purpose as a recognizable VFR landmark

Western coast of Finland along the Gulf of Bothma looking just as broken as the southern coast

This could be a problem - I was expecting more scattered clouds. If I can't see the ground, knowing where I am will be difficult. Ooops, I forgot to start my timer also to determine how far I've flown on this leg

Cape Cod has already thawed after the nor'easter and weather is favorable so climbing aboard at Provincetown

Rain reached the airport as I was landing. Taxiing off the runway to ask for parking you can see that I knew the aircraft was behind me I just didn't expect it to catch up to me. Great job on the spacing, ATC and thanks for the warning - not!

Still following I-195, coming up on the Six Flags Great Adventure/Hurricane Harbor/Safari parks

Approaching the Arcadian Shores just north of Myrtle Beach

Mmmmm sunset

Departing from Utsunomiya south to begin heading towards Tokyo

Nearing the city as I pass over some departing traffic from Tampere–Pirkkala Airport

Runway goes all the way to the road bordering the beach. Surprised to see no touristy plane spotters camped out there

Looking out over part of Chūō City, the heart of Tokyo. The Eitai Bridge behind my tail and a bridge with a single spire that curiously has no name on Google Maps - looks like a landmark bridge to me

Climbing out from Tampere

Looking back across the bay towards Tokyo as the airliner continues its approach

Back up in the air, this time Andrew decided to try our the Pilatus PC-6 Porter

Nagoya castle and grounds with the skyscrapers near the train station

Beginning my journey out over the Coral Sea but wait is that some turquoise I spy?

Looking the opposite direction down the valley between Mount Kitanglad Range Natural Park (left) and the Kalatungan Mountains (right)

Skimming over the Unga Island terrain as I descend towards Sand Point on Popof Island

Lava flows from the Eldfell volcano, with the cone of Helgafell behind it

The peaks of the active Pavlof Volcano make a nice backdrop as I begin to scan the ground

The Cleveland skyline should be visible by now but all we can see ahead of us are clouds. This should be interesting...

Could have gone further to the end of the runway but this is more than enough room. I actually probably didn't even need to cross the runway coulda departed from where I was held but ATC told me to cross so I figured why argue

Looking out over Moriyama and Kusatsu towards the Suzuka Mountains

Climbing out from Bermuda

As we cross the Lake towards the Detroit River, looking back we can just make out the skyline for Toledo off in the distance

You can barely make out to the right of my cockpit pillar, midway up, the aerials off in the distance that marked our turn north towards Detroit. The spit of land sticking out into the Lake didn't match the VFR charts so I wasn't sure until I spotted these additional landmarks

Coming around base for final and yea that other flight requested landing clearance and received it but is now back tracking??

Finally figure the best way is to just tell the AP to make direct for the waypoint ahead of the one I want to cut. It's also a newly-inserted waypoint that will take me near Bolivia's highest mountain - which I looked up and found to be along the way. It's also a more direct route to Titicaca to shave some distance off my trip

almost 1,000' lower now skimming over the terrain. Bears or bushes? Shucks, just bushes

Okay fine well, whatever drop the oxygen masks in case and let things stabilize once I get up to FL295 in a little bit

The shore of the Great Australian Bight stretches out to the horizon as I follow the Eyre Highway along the Bunda Cliffs

Approaching the midway point between the Shetlands and the Orkneys, occupied by Fair Isle

Cape Ōma, the northern-most point of Honshu

The radio/TV towers at Yasoen Gardens

Able to taxi straight from the apron to the end of the runway for departure

Fido has relaxed to enjoy the flight as I pass over Tone and Kokia Rivers towards Lake Teganuma

Puffy rain clouds

Now time to hunker down and ride out a massive snow storm approaching the NE coast before continuing on my way. I expect the Cape to thaw out before the mainland...

A new aircraft - the Diamond DA62, which I will be using to explore the Nordics (minus Iceland) and western Europe. Sitting on the tarmac at Vaasa, Finland

Following I-80 still, just north of Teterboro and Andrew is the nav lights off my right wing

Looking out at Tokyo Disneyland as I reach the bay

Back up above the low cloud layer and sun again attempts to make a peek through the thicker upper layer. OMG can't get enough of water glint

Trying to spot traffic showing on my map out of Lynden Municipal Airport but don't see anything. Beyond lost in the haze is Vancouver

Crossing Tokyo Bay towards the Tokyo Gate Bridge and Haneda Airport

Finally in sight of Robinson Crusoe Island as I setup for my visual approach - the only option here

Finally at my destination, after swinging back around north making a close (way too close) pass of the Wallops Launch Facility that sends rockets up to the ISS and also in 2021 smallsat payloads on Electron rockets