Personal travel, adventure and photography blog by Thomas Jøhnk
August 2024 - Climbing Augustine Volcano had for a long time been on my bucket list. In August 2024 I returned to Alaska, this time with my travel buddy Frode. We had five days in Alaska with mainly bad weather, but for one day, Tuesday August 20th, the forecast looked very promising with clear skies... Continue Reading →
June 2023 - Back in Alaska flying my cub for the first time since before Corona. During Corona i couldn't fly it for obvious reasons, and after Corona my Cub had to be rebuilt after a ground loop which happened during a training flight by the flight school who leases it while I am not... Continue Reading →
September 2022 - After flying around in north eastern Alaska for a week with my friend Michael, my friend flew home to and my dad came over from Denmark. My dad and I then had a week to fly my Cessna 185 back to California, back to Byron inland from San Francisco where I have... Continue Reading →
August 2022 - My Cessna 185 was parked in Talkeetna, Alaska, early summer 2022, and now I had the chance to come back and fly it for a week before taking it back to California. A very good pilot friend of mine - Michael Lemvig Olsen - joined me on this trip, this was his... Continue Reading →
May 2022 - Together with best friend Frode Kjems Uhre I flew my Cessna 185 back to Alaska along Vancouver Island, the western fjords of Canada and southern Alaska. Back in Talkeetna we stayed with nine friends from Denmark and did a few tours with overnight camping. Fly and dive. First two days on our... Continue Reading →
September 2019 - Lennart Wahl and I flew to Alaska for flying my Super Cub for a week. Weather forecast was very disappointing but somehow we managed to follow the patches of good weather around Alaska. We ended up flying all the way to Nome and had stunning weather all days except one. Day one... Continue Reading →
In June 2019, after flying my Cessna 185 up from California, i stayed in Talkeetna for two weeks together with my good friend Lennart and five Danish flying guests who had come to Alaska with us to see what Alaska could offer to pilots flying small airplanes. They all took their Float rating and their... Continue Reading →
May 2019 I flew to San Francisco to pick up Cessna 185 in Lincoln and then to pick up a very good friend of mine in Sacramento who flew down from Seattle where he lives with his family. We headed for Alaska, a 2000+ nautical miles trip. Up the west coast of US we tried... Continue Reading →
May 2018 - Alaska with my son and two friends. They all got their float licence, I got to fly my Super Cub a lot. We stayed in Talkeetna, in a house just next to the village strip. This way we could park my Super Cub just across a small street along the strip. We... Continue Reading →
March 2017 - Not my first time on skies, but definitely my first time in an airplane with skies. A very good friend of mine - Dieter Betz - and I had ten days in Alaska with my Super Cub mounted with skies. March in Alaska is perfect for ski flying, still winter with plenty... Continue Reading →
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