What a great couple of days. I got to fulfill my job description to a T. Working for MedMan I get to utilize a passion passed down from one Boggess to the next. I was raised in an aviation family with the joy of flight embedded in my DNA. Combine that with a creative artistic side and you have a pilot with a laptop who can get stuff done just about anywhere. It’s hard to believe my Monday morning started at 7am in downtown Boise for a management team meeting and the day ended in Whitefish, Montana.
The perks of corporate aviation. Considering Jim and I were able to be in Boise for a meeting bright and early, work til 2 o’clock and then be airborne and heading for Montana paints a pretty good picture of how a company like MedMan can use a tool like Columbus. Such a trip on the airlines would have been an all day affair with a pretty good chance of a significant delay in there somewhere. We even arrived in time to accomplish and afternoon meeting at the hospital in Kalispell followed by a dinner with doctors.
The second half of a 33 hour and 47 minute tour of the Northwest started bright and early today with breakfast, a meeting with senior level management and a CEO who we wanted to impress, a hospital tour and a then nice flight over to Moses lake. Non-stop 1 hour and 18 minutes at a cruising altitude of 12000 on top of a cloud layer in the crystal clear blue sky. On the ground by 1:45pm.
So, now here we are in Moses Lake, WA. This stop is a quick one. Long enough for a bite to eat at my old stomping grounds, Big Bend Community College. Jim and I seemed to accomplish a lot over a turkey sandwich and a salad. Out come the Blackberry’s and we have ourselves a productive session about up coming projects and what I have on my plate. He goes one way and I go another. I take off for Boise after the C-17 clears the traffic pattern. Crazy to see one of the biggest airplanes in the world doing touch-and-goes.
1 hour and 20 minutes later I touchdown in Boise with a decent landing by pilot standards. The airplane gets put away and I take a minute to reflect on a productive round trip via Montana and Washington. No luggage lost, no stale peanuts you had to pay for and no unexplainable delays. Columbus treats us right again with an efficient, productive and safe trip through familiar MedMan stomping grounds.
