Crappy Pictures from the Sky

a reply to: Kali74

Sorry to trick you into the thread with this non-related reply but I wanted to show you where we keep your missing Super Bowl trophies from 2008 and 2012:

originally posted by: Night Star
I'm another one living vicariously through Mason's sky adventures. I get all excited just being able to get out of the house and my own backyard.

Here's a few more.

This is the mountain range that runs through Colorado, I believe they are the Andes:

This is the back side of Hoover Dam which was built using the proceeds of the vacuum cleaner company:

Someone forgot to clean Lake Mead as it obviously has ring around the tub.

originally posted by: jacygirl
I thought I was the only one doing that, lol.

Here's your Vegas pics as requested. Shortly after I took these the Trashcan Man blew the place to hell:

And a couple of the Grand Canyon for good measure:

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Nice, thank you!

I think I would rather visit the Grand Canyon than Vegas.
(Maybe it's just because Thelma and I laugh about driving over the cliff in a convertible...?)
My ex-husband married his girlfriend (affair) in Las Vegas, so that's probably part of the reason I don't want to go, lol.

originally posted by: jacygirl
I think I would rather visit the Grand Canyon than Vegas.

Vegas is a odd place, it is both attractive and repulsive at the same time.

When I see people in front of the New York, New York casino taking pictures of the miniature Statue of Liberty I just want to push them into the fountain and tell them to go visit the real thing. But then I go and chow down at some celebrity chef's outpost and realize I am almost as bad as them.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

You mean you don't actually push them into the fountain? I'm rather disappointed, hehe...

Chowing down at a celebrity chef's outpost is fine if you're actually there for the food.
Less fine if you're there photo-bombing with Lady Gaga.

originally posted by: jacygirl
You mean you don't actually push them into the fountain? I'm rather disappointed, hehe...

Cops. They're everywhere.

Chowing down at a celebrity chef's outpost is fine if you're actually there for the food.
Less fine if you're there photo-bombing with Lady Gaga.

I always go for the food but I may have a picture of me and her. I think it's on my old phone.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: jacygirl
You mean you don't actually push them into the fountain? I'm rather disappointed, hehe...

Cops. They're everywhere.

Chowing down at a celebrity chef's outpost is fine if you're actually there for the food.
Less fine if you're there photo-bombing with Lady Gaga.

I always go for the food but I may have a picture of me and her. I think it's on my old phone.

FYI...Mon Ami Gab...Paris Casino...BEST French dining in Vegas.

Not that I've ever been to Vegas.

originally posted by: IAMTAT
Not that I've ever been to Vegas.

Me neither. That was someone else on the corner of Flamingo and the Boulevard taking pictures with the showgirls.

At least that person hopes they were girls.

I've never been anywhere.

a reply to: DBCowboy

I keep telling you to tell them that you 'feel better now'.

When I first got out of the USAF, I had a job with a lot of travel. I was lucky enough to see many small, really, small, and some so damn small you wouldn't believe how small, towns from the air. My route was usually flying into Arkansas in the summer, and northern Minnesota for the winter. For the record, you can't get from the Twin Cities airport to Bemidji without going through Thief River Falls.

And there is a town in Arkansas where the people who worked in the Lumber mill were really nice, but between the 32 of them, you could almost put a full set of teeth together.

This was back when I racked up miles on Northwestern. I haven't used them yet. Saving for hard times.

originally posted by: network dude
This was back when I racked up miles on Northwestern. I haven't used them yet. Saving for hard times.

I hate to be the one to break this to you but they are on the same farm now as TWA and PanAm.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Wait, what?

Damn.......when did this happen? (kidding)

a reply to: slapjacks

Here's one for you from Chicago, you may recognize it even thought it's from the air:





This one is blurry since we were bouncing around but I snagged a Lufthansa 747 coming in to O'Hare for the parallel runway:

a reply to: jacygirl

Here's some new ones. Milwaukee, which appears to have met Stephen King's Mist:



Denver with the Rockies in the background:



And Denver again on departure from DEN:

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Denver looks nice, Milwaukee...not so, lol.

I love seeing the mountains, would like to visit British Columbia one day and actually see mountains up close and personal.

Thank you for letting me see some of the world through your eyes! (and an airplane window, which I will likely NEVER experience for myself)

a reply to: jacygirl

Glad you are enjoying yourself. I have a few I just took of SF on climb out, no mountains but it has skyscrapers, bridges and fog.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

San Fran is pretty hilly, isn't it? I would like to see the pics.

Is it fog or smog that's showing up? (being serious, not a smart-ass)

Just curious. Our weather has been pretty bizarre lately, so fog wouldn't surprise me.
(what IS the smoggiest city in the U.S.?)

Enquiring minds want to know.

a reply to: jacygirl

It's fog. You can see it billowing up on the palisades and then spilling into the bay Area, kind of like the earlier pics I took.