Trip to Accomack County Virginia

It was a hot day with temps in the upper 90s. I did my preflight check, called potomac approach and opened my flight plan at 2:05pm. was airborne at 2:20pm. I flew south east from tipton Fort Meade at 1300 ft below the class B airspace inner shelf surrounding BWI toward annapolis airport, still on flight plan. Beyond Annapolis I climbed to 3000 still in the washington ADIZ now the temps are in the low 80s so much more comfortable. I forgot to mention at this point I am over water the Chesapeake Bay. now turning more south towards patuxnet. In about 5 minutes I am out of the ADIZ and potamac approach lets me loose so I climb to my planned altitude of 6500ft now temps are in the upper 60s. I contact patuxent approach to find out if the restricted area where it will take me 15 minutes from where I am now to get to my destination or I can go around the restricted area that will take me 55 minutes.I have good news the restricted area is cold so I am given a squawk code and allowed in the resticted area. 9 minutes in a spot a bleeb on my panel mounted GPS in the middle of the water that indicates an airport so I am like what is that? I turn the control whell left and give it full right rudder so I can look down and still stay on course. This manuver costs me some speed. So I see this small Island with an air strip called Tangier Island (TGI) the image is what is displayed. At this point you can tell my excitement is showing with a big grin on my face. That is where I plan to go on my next trip. I plan to have my camcorder on this trip and will upload the landing and takeoff. Sorry got off track. I am now 7 minutes and 14 natical miles from my destination. I go through my descend check list and commence descent. At at 7 nautical miles I make my first call to accomack county airport and make my intension know. On the radio I here there is one plan on final and another 15 nautical miles from the airport also inbound to land. From here I make an uneventfull landing. I turn around and go back to fort meade. That was also uneventfull. In my next update I will talk about my encounter with the kneeboard on a previous flight.

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