N954J has arrived back home to Winnemucca, Nevada. A surprise welcome back greeting of balloons from Janeanne Knox and her boyfriend Tim was a wonderful way to end a most exciting adventure. The Dakota has never been tugged with such fanfare.

Heather does the M&M "ta da" pose without the little round red one (aka Moe). Moe lives in Reno and so obviously was not able to be in the photo, so we'll just pretend she is there.

Moe took an airline home from Arkansas to get back to work, while Heather and her husband flew back home together. Along the way we ran into our Mama Bird Team #27 in Dumas, Texas of all places (where we were all so happy to see avgas at $4.99 which is just sad to be happy about).

And wouldn't this airspeed (bottom right corner gs = ground speed) have been nice to see during the race when the plane's handicap speed was 142 knots. Although in all truthfulness we were descending and had a pretty nice tailwind. But still it was fun to see..