A vacation that was very fun and exciting for me was over winter break. I flew a small airplane from Ohio out to Montana for a ski trip. It was my first big trip since getting my pilot certificate. It was quite an adventure flying out there. We had to leave a night early because of bad weather moving into Ohio. We made it to Madison, Wisconsin and spent the night there, but due to the visibility of a quarter mile the next morning, we had to delay departure until noon. We continued until we decided to stop for the night in Wyoming. Finally, we were only several hours from our destination, but ironically, we could not leave in the morning again, this time because the surface winds were so high that the hanger our airplane was in could not be opened.
We eventually landed at our destination and enjoyed some good skiing. On our way back to Ohio we blasted our way home with a stiff tailwind. While we encountered a few weather delays, it was an amazing experience. I saw some beautiful terrain flying across the country including the black hills and Chicago skyline; I also had fun skiing.