Nice to be european!:  VISA is no longer required to visit US. Just a document called ESTA is enough for a 90 days stay….

So, far before starting the flight,  I had of course that issue solved. Now, I can enter US without any problem.

Without any problem????

The fact is that not only myself has to be cleared in, but also the aircraft. It has been necessary to register for eAPIS (electronic Advance Passenger Information System) , not to forget DTOS sticker for the aircraft.

Jorge called me the night before last…

Do you have VISA????

Well, Jorge..¨Us¨ Europeans, don´t need a VISA to enter USA 🙂

Then, after some chat and checks, my world was wrinkled, and I felt really bad.

Yeeeees, Us, Europeans, do need a VISA when you travel by your own private airplane !!!!

ESTA is a procedure just for guys arriving by ¨Carrier ¨ !

Soon, no longer, I was not ready nor cleared !!!

What a hard moment!

Jorge told me, why you try to contact your Embassy?

So I did!

First, I requested the VISA through the web procedures, and paid the taxes, some $160 !

Then I was requested to undergo two procedures at two different places: one for biometry, the other for an interview. The interview was to be made once the picture and finger data procedure was complete.

So, in other words, a procedure that takes some too long time for me: I have to enter USA April the 3rd !

The spanish Embassy, the Defense representatives inside, have expended the full morning trying to help in order to expedite that VISA.  What nice guys are Pedro and Carlos ! It is a pleasure to have that grateful filling inside the heart !

No news so far, so tomorrow April the first, I will have a feedback, and hopefully, goods one.

Of course, brainstorming all the time to find solutions. My brain is somehow like a cooked fried pea after so much thinking, but fortunately, my friends and Paula have still a jumbo sized brain, so sure they will find a solution.

Before that ¨surprise ¨ we have been hosted by Jorge Cornish, his wife Malu, and my friend Javier Reyes.

One of the goals was to fly formations together and visit the Teotihuacan Pyramids.

The day was perfect, but shaky. We took off and met over Atizapan airport, after passing a ridge at 12500 ft. Then we flew direct to the pyramids with the full help of Mexico DF Air Traffic Controllers:

Please, keep lower than maximum visual altitudes !

¨The road of deaths¨ inside the pyramids area looked like a runway from the air.

We entered the area from the north, on a downwind left leg, then I turned base and final for Moon Pyramid approach.

Sun pyramid was abeam right of final, and all the zone was plenty of coloured ants.

Ants???

Oooops, sorry, tourists !

It was our glory moment. We felt like Quetzalcoalt God, extending our wings over those small living coloured ants.

Then, we climbed into the sky and disappeared west into the horizon.

Another very special moment in this round the world flight. A moment that I would like to share with all of you, because it is so beautiful, that it is not nice for oneself.

With some luck, I will take into USA next April the 3rd.

God Ehécatl-Quetzalcóatl is waiting skypolaris to be in the air and then, create the wind, as he has always done.

Wishing to feel it !