Vanessa Pierce

Here is an excerpt of the story I’m working on for Flight Training magazine—best adventure yet!

I hadn’t ever been so nervous to fly. The nerves began two weeks before when my friend came up with a hair-brained idea to have me join her and friends on a Labor Day weekend getaway to Tofino—a fishing and surfing town on the southwest coast of British Columbia. “It’s on my bucket list to fly up to Tofino,” Ainsley told me. She’s never flown there even though her cabin in Tofino has been in the family since the 1950s, and flying is the way to go. Only a couple hours by plane, but 11 by car. Conveniently, I had to knock out 20 hours of commercial cross-country time, and couldn’t resist the thought…

Here are some photos to whet your appetite until the story comes out:

Flying over the San Juan Islands enroute to Nanaimo, B.C.

My first red snapper catch!

Ainsley about to hit the surf at Cox Bay, Tofino

Flying into Boeing Field, Seattle.

Landing at Boeing Field (great shot Sunny Fenton)

Made it back to Seattle, just waiting to be cleared by customs

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