San Pablo Bay (north end of SF Bay), Richmond-San Rafael Bridge; Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta stretching east from San Pablo to the Central Valley & Sacramento, with snow-capped Sierras in the distance; Mt Tam, Mill Valley, Sausalito & Marin County bottom right as we flew over on 16 April during that long, photo-productive approach to SF :-).
Although I did find the clouds and the dawn sky lovely, I took and am sharing this photo because of the coast of Donegal County, which you can see most clearly just above the turbine / engine. This was a bit just north of the farthest northwest that Nikos and I got in our road trip last November.
No, it’s not pretty – but it’s the last view I had of my Amsterdam home before the plane entered the heavy cloud layer. Below: the last photo I took before we landed about 10-1/2 hours later at SFO. Bit of a contrast, eh?
We’ll call these both Massachusetts, since I no longer recall what we might have been flying over when I took these last-remaining photos from the flight between A’dam and Boston late on the 18th of August.
Penang Island from the mainland: above, as seen on 29th of November as we neared our landing; below, as seen during my flight from Kuala Lumpur to Yangon on the 6th of December.
So last week I flew off for some visits to our project locations again, changing planes in Doha. This meant we flew over some parts of Iraq I’ve come to know a bit, and I’m reasonably confident that the city you see here by night is Erbil, though the in-flight map didn’t identify enough cities to confirm this hypothesis.
I do so love when I can look out the plane window and see something that exactly corresponds to the map. This is the little bay just north of Norfolk. It’s on a fairly straight line between Amsterdam and Dublin, so we flew right over it en route to Dublin last week. Might’ve done on the way back as well, but, well, clouds…
We’ve swung a bit southeast to fly in more on the south side of Lac Leman, so you’re seeing Lac Leman at the top right, and more of Lac Neuchatel at the top lef, with some little lakes in mountains in front of them.
I knew I was seeing the southeastern end of Lac Neuchatel, which meant that curving lake in the distance was the eastern end of Lac Leman…and then I noticed a mountain rising noticeably higher than its neighbors and concluded it must be Mont Blanc. Took the close up below to convince myself. Was I wrong?
I’m calling this France because most of that September return trip happened over France. In October, they took us over more of Germany and approached from inland, whereas in the September journey we flew up the west coast of NL, as we’ve shown you in a past postor two…
(so much world, so little time....) 