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On this Labor Day weekend I flew from San Francisco Bay Area to Seattle to visit Boeing museum and factory tour, so I would like to share some pictures with you.

There was a wide spread and tall (up to 12,000ft) smoke areas around border of CA and OR. We were lucky to go through the sandwich layer of smokes (but not so cool to fly )

When we reached to Portland we got a clear blue sky. Then we flew over Sea-Tac Int'l and landed at Renton, a home base of Boeing 737 production line. It's cool to see many 737 sitting on taxiway.

Next day we visited Museum of Flight at Boeing Field. The museum was insanely HUGE and FUN. You can easily spend a whole day. Highly recommended.

Flying Seattle is... so beautiful. I really liked the view of water and trees.

Nice trip, thanks for sharing.

Those of us who call Seattle home are many-times blessed. As Boeing's home of a century now, we were a city built around pilots and flying from the start. It's deep in the local culture, and our infrastructure (as arksat notes) makes it easy. There are so many places to go: you can fly water or mountains, cross into Canada and head for Alaska, or make your way east to the Rockies or south to CA in an easy day of flying. And the skies are simply beautiful here.

The only downside is the short flying season, which really only lasts from April to October. The winter overcast makes IFR ratings a necessity; but even at that, you're going to want FIKI, too, on many days, especially when crossing the mountains. So we're making our last wistful flights of the summer on these final few weekends, before putting our birds away in their hangars for the winter. In another month, sun and sky are going to be much harder to come by. It's a good thing you came now.