Wiese flew the Cessna 310B from San Antonio to San Francisco, where his cross-Pacific journey began. On the first leg of his flight to Hawaii, he periodically kept himself awake by banging his head against the window during the 14-hour flight. After Hawaii, he stopped in Kanton Island and Fiji, before his final destination in Australia. At these stops, other pilots commented that they had never seen a pilot make the trip solo before.
