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I had another opportunity to see my sister while she was staying in Monterey. I flew to the Salinas airport in the Pulsar where she picked me up.

A weak front was moving through and in the morning I had a wait for a while for the low clouds to lift. There still was not much space between the mountains and the clouds, but I managed to get past the obstacles.

The last part of the mountains give way before it opens up to the Monterey Bay area.

My sister took me to the famous Monterey Bay Aquarium, which was very interesting and had beautiful exhibits.

It was not easy to take a good picture of the very active sea otters.

The kelp forest and its inhabitants were more cooperative.

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My sister is in California for her vacation and is touring various places. I used the opportunity to meet up with her while she was in the Bay area. I flew Caro to Petaluma, north of San Francisco and we explored the area on the ground. These beautiful hills were great for hiking.

In many places the oaks provided shade.

The Petaluma airport is right next to the town. At first it was doubtful if I would be able to fly at all, because a fire had started between San Andreas and the next town, and a restricted area had been placed over our airport to allow firefighter tankers to come and go to fight it. They even used jets (MD-80) as tankers this time. Fortunately the fire was brought under control and the restricted area was reduced in size after a couple of days and released our airport.

The bay is on the left

It is only green where the Sacramento river provides water for irrigation.

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A lot of my work these days consists of analyzing flap structures, hinges, spars and such on aluminum wings. I also did a lot of drawings of composite airplane parts.

This is not my drawing, I work in CAD. I used this one to get dimensions for parts that will be modified.

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I flew Caro 1 on a few local flights, it is doing well, so I can consider taking it further from home again.

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I also made a video of my flight, the link is here:

I have written a trip report of my recent flight across a large part of the US:

You can read it by opening the pdf file:

https://caro-engineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Midwest-Roundtrip.pdf

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