@apollon01, that is way cool! Might this be the first time that a car has been part of the Holiday flight?
I’ve been busy the last few days; trying to make hay while the sun shines. In the interest of space, I’ll try to put it all in one post…
Leg 2: Altoona-Blair County, Altoona, PA (KAOO) TO Newark-Heath Airport, Newark, OH (KVTA)
With a new oil seal (and a quick fine paid to the EPA for the cleanup), I am off again pointed westward.
I am still absolutely butchering range navigation. Thank God for VFR!
Plus, listening to that tone for hours on end makes me wonder how more navigators didn’t wind up on multi-state chainsaw sprees! 
With some assistance from my Mk 1, Mod 0 eyeball, I did manage to find Pittsburgh, right up the Monongahela River.
Though the site of the old Pittsburgh AN radio station actually looks to be further south, by the Allegheny County Airport; at least according the “cone of confusion”.
In my case, the cone of confusion is usually situated within about a 2ft radius of my head. 
Not too long thereafter, I roll onto final, runway 27 at Newark Heath on a clear summer afternoon.
And squeeeeeeeeze onto the ramp.
Left a Philly Cheeseteak for @BierRunner. You might not want to wait until Christmas to eat it.
Leg 3: Newark-Heath Airport, Newark, OH (KVTA) TO Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville, KY (KSDF)
Took off way too early the next morning in the Beech 18, MCAS El Toro livery by Bomber_12th. This has got to be one of my favorite paint jobs. The detail work Bomber_12th put into it is really amazing.
But, we don’t get to see that yet. In fact, we don’t get to see much of anything yet. In one of those interesting flight sim vs real life moments, I can’t find most of the rheostats to turn the lights on in the cockpit. 
Notice especially that dark hole under the attitude gyro…that’ll be important later.
It took an hour or so for the sun to come up. In addition to fighting a little with the Beech’s autopilot, I couldn’t for the life of me find any sort of HSI on my side of the cockpit. What a weird omission!
God bless the dawn!
As the cockpit got a little brighter, I noticed that the black hole beneath the attitude gyro is in fact a combined HSI and CDI.
A marvelously designed instrument. Except for being pitch black at night! 
(I’m sure that there must be a knob for that thing somewhere)
After about two hours, my two dogs started looking wistfully at the expensive carpeting in the Beech. In the name of historic preservation, I decided to duck into Louisville. I wouldn’t have had the gas to make it to my ultimate destination for the day anyway. Plus, I love me some bourbon!
A little fog over on the Indiana side of the Ohio river. Not uncommon actually. That river leads to some pretty dramatic differences in the weather between Indiana and Kentucky.
But the weather looks fine over SDF. Between the parallels, you can see some of the massive UPS facility and Churchill Downs at about 2 o’clock.
A quick gas and go here, and I should be on my way!
Leg 4: Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville, KY (KSDF) TO Sugarland Regional Airport, Houston, TX (KSGR)
OK, tanks topped off. Fire hydrants peed on.
Taking off to the south with the Louisville skyline in the background.
My original intent had been to fly Victor routes down to Texas. But, after my autopilot troubles, I wound up floundering around a bit and chose to go magenta eventually. I’ve already abandoned my last year’s trip resolution of no GPS, no cheats while teaching myself to fly the range on Leg 1.
This year I may just have to play for the experience. 
Anyway, a sim reset and watching a few YouTube tutorials seems to have addressed most of my AP issues, though the Beech has one of those autopilots that works oddly enough to make you wonder if it works like this for realz. 
Climbing out over the Ohio. I also seem to be having mixed results with Live weather in MSFS recently. Sometimes it matches the METAR. Sometimes the skies are incongruously CAVU.
Passing over Rough River State Park just west of Louisville. This is a popular fly in destination for the Louisville crowd.
By the time I reach the Land Between the Lakes, intersection of the Tennessee and Big Sandy Rivers, it’s clear and a million!
Originally the MSFS range circle on the World Map showed me just shy of the gas to make it to Houston. But the Beech is really sipping the stuff thus far. Still, I don’t know how accurate these gauges are.
I’m getting uncomfortably close to the bottom of my 78gal main tank. But I’m within 100NM of SGR and I still have 25 in the Aux. I switch over so that I don’t get any surprises on final. 
The weather is clearly not correct for the Houston area. So, I manually draw some in based on the local METARs. The Houston Metroplex pokes its nose out through the clouds.
Is it just me, or does the PG scenery sometimes look a little post-apocalyptic?
Abeam Sugarland.
And a shamefully deep turn onto final! LOL!
Well, here we are. Houston.
And a box of Buckeyes for @guod.
Leg 5: Sugarland Regional Airport, Houston, TX (KSGR) TO Austin Exec Airport, Austin, TX (KEDC)
This was a fairly short one.
Took off on a sweaty AM from Sugarland in the lovely H145. They’ve really done a marvelous job on this thing.
My ultimate destination was west of here, but I had a stop to make in the other direction first.
Houston skyline on the horizon.
Took a bit of looking, but finally found at least part of it. Johnson Space Flight Center.
Houston, we have a problem. There’s some idiot hovering in front of my windshield!
OK, better get out of here before someone writes down my N number.
Passing the Astrodome heading back across the metroplex.
I don’t know if it’s something to be proud of, but I think I violated the Class B of every major airport in the Houston area.
Houston in the rearview.
A brief hour or so of NOE flying brought me to the great city of Austin and Austin Executive on the northern outskirts.
Now to shut this thing down and remove all the identifying plates, before Walker Texas Ranger shows up. 
And for @PaulRix, some space ice cream. This one can probably keep until Christmas…2034.
Well, that’s it. All caught up. Now comes the hard part…
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