Yeah that flight in Wasabi was...interesting haha.
The GT is a great cross country airplane. Solo the airplane is directionally and longitudinally stable stick free. So you can put your feet flat on the floor and use trim to fly almost hands off. For the roll axis you can turn off the left or right wing tank to manage lateral CG relieving that workload. With Jenn and bags in the back the pitch axis gets a little more lively and you need to fly it pretty actively, especially if you can't get above the turbulence. With Ken in the back we were pretty close to the aft CG limit and the airplane is very active in both pitch and yaw, so I end up handing off a lot of the navigation duties so that I can keep the airplane on altitude and course.
The propeller is the weak point of the airplane and we are looking around for another option. I think there is significant performance to be gained with a new prop, well obviously some Aerochia/Pacific Continental Turbos would help alot too

Party on,
Elliot