Personal travel, adventure and photography blog by Thomas Jøhnk
April 2023 - Together with my friend Frode Kjems Uhre i moved my Cessna 185 fra Byron (C83) near San Francisco to David Wayne Hooks Memorial (KDWH) near Houston. And in order to make a small adventure out of this, we decided to fly across Mexico from west to east. First day we flew from... 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 →
August 2022 - The eruption at Meradalir, close to Reykjavik and even closer to Keflavik, started on August 3rd, and I happened to have a return ticket to Iceland very early morning on August 4th. I landed in Keflavik half past eight in the morning, got on the bus to Reykjavik where a rental car... 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 →
April 2022 - Cross Country from Houston to Seattle. Four days, Seventeen hundred nautical miles, twenty hours and twenty minutes of flight time, twelve stops. In my Cessna Skywagon. With my youngest son Troels. And finally, a few days with good friends - John and Becky - in Seattle before returning to Denmark. First time... Continue Reading →
March 2022 - From Tracy just inland from San Francisco to Houston in my Cessna 185. Together with my son Søren. Seven days of cross country flying, 25 hours airborne and almost 3.000 nautical miles flown (with plenty of tail wind). With landings at Minden-Tahoe (KMEV), South Valley/Salt Lake City (U42), Grand Junction (KGJT), Lake... Continue Reading →
December 2021 - With Frode Kjems Uhre i flew back to California for flying my Cessna 185 for another week. Less than a month after going there and doing the same with my oldest son Søren Jøhnk. On this trip we headed due east from Tracy where mu plane is hangared, eventually reaching Lake County/Leadville... Continue Reading →
November 2021 - My first trip to US for 19 months, due to the Corona Pandemic. And therefore also my first time with my Cessna 185 for 19 months. So it was really really nice to come back and see that my plane was still in good shape. Thanks to SkyView Aviation in Tracy for... Continue Reading →
October 2021 - My friends Elena and Lennart Wahl visited Iceland for a week, and I visited them for three days during the trip. Weather was just perfect and the old original 1952 Cessna 170 TF-KAF was available. We flew Reykjavik (BIMS) - Holmavik (BIHK) - Gjogur (BIGJ) - Ísafjörður (BIIS) - Reykjavik (BIMS). With... Continue Reading →
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