Originally Posted by
Duksrule
My exact point. If I am just stopping for fuel, food etc.... and continuing on to my destination, then I consider it one flight from the original point of departure. If I was stopping for say an overnight, then I would consider the next leg a completely different flight.
Your prerogative.
OTOH, if I were flying from, say, Denver to Phoenix for a business meeting and diverted to Albuquerque due to weather and stayed overnight, I'd still consider the Denver-Phoenix flight to be a single cross country flight for certificate requirement purposes.