When we set this up three or four months ago, I knew there was a tight window at work to fit it in. If I had known then what I know now, specifically the unexpected things that have happened and made that window soooooooo much tighter, I never would have made plans. But that was then, this is now, and here I was on a plane.
I’ll admit, I spent a good deal of time in the last week thinking about cancelling the trip. And much as with the April trip to Texas to see the eclipse, I’m travelling with my work laptop and a stack of paperwork and files on memory sticks and I’ll be spending way, way more time coding and doing data entry from my hotel room than I might otherwise spend at the WWI Museum, or the Atkins art museum, or at the Negro Leagues Baseball museum, or trolling BBQ places. C’est le vie!
Over Palmdale Airport and the Antelope Valley, looking south toward the mountains and the LA Basin, there’s an unbelievable amount of smoke from multiple huge brush fires that have been burning for days.
Can you see the cargo 747 at the bottom, flying a few thousand feet below us?
Lake Havasu and the Colorado River are an easy landmark to spot.
My office in the sky. I lucked out and our flight was only about 1/3 full, so there was plenty of room to stretch out, get the laptop fired up, and get two hours of work in.
Somewhere over the Oklahoma panhandle or so, some small town was getting pounded. We saw several big thunderhead cells, but this was by far the biggest.
Today was International Observe the Moon Day – DONE! There it is!
I think of windmills for power generation as being more of a Western states thing, more of a mountain pass thing, but there sure were a lot of them out in eastern Colorado and western Kansas! I don’t know if they still call the wind “Mariah,” but they sure call it “Kilowatt!”
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 