Saturday was a post-frontal weather day - very windy with active turbulence Sigmets. Fortunately, only areas west of Sacramento had high winds at the surface, while most other area airports had only moderate winds. Up above I saw 30mph winds, moderate turbulence and mountain wave with 1000fpm ups and downs downwind of ridges.

Eggs Benedict from Petaluma’s excellent Two-Niner-Diner hit the spot, surface was dead calm and return leg showed 140mph ground speed! The trip wrapped up with a nice short 300ft landing into a steady 10kt head wind - not bad for a 79 year old :)

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