I flew in a plane today - the first time in 515 days! It was the familiar route from JFK to San Diego, though we flew farther south than in this map... and it wasn't as clear.
After marveling at New York's ever spikier skyline I was excited to see the land, especially in the West, but was treated instead to clouds of every shape. (We flew the southerly route because of storm systems we could see out the northerly window.) These time lapse videos
(make sure to click the little box at lower right to get full-screen) make the ride seem a little bumpier than it was, but capture some of the Dr. Seuss-like wonders over West Virginia, and the almost sci-fi landscapes over New Mexico, where clouds - some tinted brown
and even baby blue by heat and smoke - masked the land baking in a heat wave below. At times it felt more like Jupiter than Earth! We were following the sun all day, and got to see it reflected in the Pacific from behind the clouds on final approach to San Diego.
