Darrell's weblog

I’m currently in training again. This time it’s a two-week field maintenance course for our Super Puma. I’m not really into the Puma. It’s very pretty and all, but I still prefer the Mi-17. Speaking of which, I’m up to 40 hours of flight time, which is pretty good considering it’s all training time here in the States. Nearly all of that time has been spent in this helicopter. Yeah, it’s kind of dirty, but we wash it every couple of weeks or whenever the tailboom turns completely black. I finally finished buying all of my overseas gear, since I found out that I leave on October 1st. It’s my first overseas trip, so I’m pretty excited. I will be gone for two months (should get back just after Thanksgiving), but I will have Internet access, so no worries there.

In other news, the house-building process is moving along, although we don’t expect to actually start building until sometime on November. Also, as I promised Heather a vacation after my first overseas trip, we’ve already planned another trip to Playa del Carmen (Mexico) in the middle of December. The weather looks pretty nice there in December, so I can’t wait.

I’m also trying to head back overseas before Christmas, so I can be back before it’s time to close on the new house and move. So it looks like I’ll be really busy in the coming months!