Continuing the push towards the coast ...

Charlesville , then east again , after dropping Mark off I ended up flying untill dark and landing on the road again after 7pm. I was battling a x- wind and only did about 70km this evening , but still every bit counts.
Next morning waking up at 5am and feeing a x-wind is not a good thing, considering it was coming from 90 degree's from the highway track. I attempted 3 launches and their was no way to get it up on line. It took a a quick backtrack down the road , we found a small clearing facing the wind. Very tight spot and no room for messing it up ,as soon as I was 3 feet off the ground I swung it around and followed the highway.
It was super rough and only flew about 45km and put it down too much x wind for me and the thermals started early with cooler air . The evening was great however ,we had a tail wind and put in my longest flight of the trip at 170km in 3 hrs lovely air Landing on the outskirts of Roma
Roma an oil town and felt it home right away and were invited over for some beers on landing with some of the locals and a guy whom ownes the landing area , he invited us to stay at his renovated house and park in the driveway ... Thank you Rick !!
He was a great host and let us use his house for some repairs and cleaning and laundry . Marks motor was taken in and repaired and the truck exhaust was fixed which had a large hole in it .. all done .. let's get on the road it was a day of no flying and my body needed it. .... legs are getting very tired from pushing speed bar all day and shoulder rotator cuff ..
Next day : flew about 110km short of Miles
We ended up in a nice little town had coffee ate some grapes off the vine and had lunch . I was up in the air again by 4:30pm and flying towards Miles about 20km away , this is when idecided to turn south as it was stomy ahead and hitting a headwind keeping the speed at about 20km /hr. The next part of the evening was quite bumpy and had to stay low , not fun flying landed near dark ... very wet area !
Near Gumms...