These clouds always look thicker in the distance than they are close up. As a result, we landed at the two airports on our route and checked the weather. Andreas' iPad was a marvel, showing us the radar picture and the observations at various airports. This told us we were not flying into a thunderstorm. But nothing told us whether the clouds were high enough to let us over the Blue Ridge. Or what the situation was at our destination.

For those, we went low-tech. We landed at Waynesboro and looked at the pass through the mountain, which was right in front of us. And we called Jim Colburn, the innkeeper, and asked him to look out his window. Were the clouds above the mountains? Any fog? When it looked good, we went. 25 minutes from Waynesboro to Fallen Oak.