In transit

I like the window seat. It makes a trip by air go much faster for me to look out the window and try to recognize places below, or just to appreciate the scenery. It's usually not so easy to take pictures out of the airplane window, as they are usually dirty and the sun is often glaring. Regardless, here are some of the better pictures from my trip over.

This is a wind farm in the Sacramento delta, just east of San Francisco.


Lake Tahoe was pretty, despite the recent fires:


This one is a little hard to make out, but it is the town of Wheatland, WY, where my brother John and family live:




Here is one of the sandhills of Nebraska. These hills are sand dunes that have grown grass over them, holding them in place:



Here is the very western tip of Wales:



The Welsh countryside:

The far north of the Norwegian mainland:



And, finally, Svalbard: