Book excerpt: February was always a good month to start new activities and have new projects. One of them was to buy a large sailboat to make a solo trip from Long Beach (California) to the city of Santos in Brazil. I gave up that idea because I was not sufficiently healthy for that long trip. My next idea was to make the trip in a small aircraft 108 that I owned. It was an aircraft easy to fly and economical. Piper Colt 108 is a first tricycle aircraft built by Piper, two passages, side by side seat. This was my plan for the adventure, flying from Las Vegas in Nevada through the Americas, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.