Yesterday we went to Block Island for a few hours. The weather was perfect and the visibility was excellent. You could easily see Long Island in detail after we departed.
The flight to KBID was uneventful. The island looked beautiful and quiet from the air. We landed, switched to UNICOM and taxiied to a spot on the grass. Then we took a cab into town. The town was very quiet. There's the remains of a hurricane heading up the east coast right now so people's vacation plans got changed. The taxi driver said that there's 1/4 the amount of people on the island right now that there normally would be on Labor day weekend.
We had lunch at a nice little Italian Restaurant called Aldo's Original. The prices were a bit high but considering we were on Block Island they weren't bad. Everyone enjoyed their food and the location was great as it was fairly secluded from the main part of town.
A bunch of the guys bought cigars at the National Hotel and then we all just hung out on the breakwater for about an hour enjoying what's likely to be one of the last nice days of "summer" this year.
After a while we decided we should head back home. The flight home was as calm and smooth as the flight there. We caught a bit of a tailwind and made it home in just over 30 minutes.
I think we've really proved to our friends that when you're a pilot, the whole world is at your fingertips. You can get to places that you can't easily get to by any other means of travel. It's a wonderful "hobby" loaded with rewards.
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