Saturday, April 25, 2009
Home again
We caught the 6:30 flght out of Cedar Rapids, switched in Chicago, and landed in Newark around 11:30 this morning. No matter how often I fly, which is frequently, I will not get over the miracle of jet travel. It astonishes me every time I think about it.
Anyway, I caught a phone camera picture of Manhattan and the crashed TH Teenager as we approached. You do not often see such a well-defined layer of smog.
2 Comments:
By 
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Sun Apr 26, 12:51:00 AM:
> You do not often see such a
> well-defined layer of smog.
Actually you do, even better defined, provided you have access to mountains next to a big city and are willing to go up sometimes. :-)
I live in the Vancouver, BC, Canada area just on the bottom of a mountain (Grouse Mtn). Height is around 1100m (~3600 feet). When we go up to the mountain, there is a good chance we can see this dirt down below just above the city.
BTW about how clean the air can be every once in a while: I could see from here Mt. Rainier on more than one occasions. Distance between Grouse Mt. and Mt. Rainier is somewhere around 200 miles. And between them are a good part of Vancouver, Seattle, and a couple of smaller towns. Yes, Rainier looked very small, and just a bit better than barely visible, but hey, it is pretty impressive from this far away.
Vilmos
By 
apex, at
Fri May 08, 03:34:00 PM:
Next time you're in L.A., drive up to Mulholland. A view for a true smog afficionado.
apex
