On Saturday RV-7A builder Patrick V. and I flew down to Brantford to check out the Aircraft Spruce Canada Fly-In and Sale. I bought some oil and oil filters - it would of been much cheaper to just have them shipped, but it was an excuse to go flying.

While we were there, I was surprised to see Odile Rablat, a very adventurous lady from France who has spent every summer since 2009 touring Canada in a DTA Voyageur II S trike ultralight. I ran into her about a year ago in Yarmouth, NS - she was in the midst of her tour of eastern Canada, and my Dad and I helped her while she was in Yarmouth waiting for better weather. It turns out that her son lives not too far from Brantford, and she had just flown back to Canada a few days ago to start this year’s tour - she hopes to fly all the way up to the Yukon and see the Beaufort Sea. She is a lot braver than I am.

It is amazing that I once again ran into Odile Rablat, who lives in France, in a completely different part of Canada from where I ran into her last year. It sure is a small world.