“We’ve had the most wonderful day in Reykjavík – but after a bit of a rocky start. To be honest, we arrived quite shattered and a little bit grumpy with one another. But, today was my birthday, so after a 13-hour sleep, we pretty much hit the town. The flight out of Greenland was beautiful.

“OK, I’m already getting Avcom withdrawal and I see some conjecture which may not be 100% right! Well, I abandoned SHW’s ferry tanks in Nassau, but I carried Linda’s across to Florida so she could store them for future use. No one in the USA cares if you use ferry tanks in an experimental aircraft

“The great switcheroo! What a weird day! It turned out that JP and his flying partner, William, are both entitled to enter the USA only on “ESTA” arrangements – Their having German and New Zealand passports respectively. The effect of that is that they cannot fly in on their own aircraft, but must travel into

“I’m sitting in the Barbados Beach Club hotel in Bridgetown and tracking the three High Wings on the Sling Aircraft website. It’s amazing to watch this and share the experience while sitting comfortably next to the hotel pool. Having spent the last week travelling with the three beautiful Sling High Wings, I know exactly what

“It’s now 1h00 am in the Bahamas and I should be sleeping but we’ve had truly the most magnificent day’s flying. It quite honestly feels like a month, not a week since we left Johannesburg. I can hardly believe we’ve come this far and that, failing catastrophe, we should be in Oshkosh by Wednesday mid-morning

“I’m afraid we’ve been running on empty for quite a number of days and I literally haven’t had a moment to get onto the internet, write some thoughts and post some photographs. Cape Verde, her people, refueling (from the nearby Shell garage), leaving before sunrise, the 2,100 nm flight to Barbados and Barbados itself were

“Safe in Cape Verde! Actually, yesterday was much harder than today! As I always find on sustained aircraft trips – the flying is the easy part. The flight from take-off in Accra to touchdown in Praia finally took us 13 hours, but the real effort was in getting it all setup. Ghana must be one

“This post is a mess but anyhow… There seems to be a glitch but my phone’s not the greatest tool to fix it and my computer’s dead. Try to work it out for yourself! Safe in Accra. A great day out!” – James

“Yooohooo – so we got the permission. And we already have those required to get to Cape Verde. So it’s off to Accra, and all things being fair, off to Cape Verde the next morning, even earlier. We made the most of the day – walked more than 15 km past the President’s house, Fortaleza