This evening I took up two new friends, Rob and TJ, today being TJ’s 21st Birthday. It was another blazing hot day with a thick haze throughout the valley and light winds from the southwest. My passengers were completely ecstatic to be in an airplane, and I pretty much let them set the course for the 1.1 hour flight.
We circled TJ’s house in Forest Grove at 1500 feet, then took a scenic tour of Haag Lake northwest of Gaston. We turned back to the east and flew over Newberg, then to Lake Oswego at 3000 to catch a view of downtown Portland’s high rises. We all had a blast; I think today I created some new fans of aviation! (More pictures here)
