On my flight to China over the summer, I barely slept at all. I spent most of my time looking out the window and watching the map on the seatback screen with our location. At one point during this time awake, I observed an incredible lake. I loved its extremely contorted shoreline, the super blue color and the complete lack of any evidence of human involvement. I wanted to parachute out right there and explore. Anyway, since then, I’ve been fixated on the idea of finding out where that lake actually is in hopes that I’ll have some random opportunity in my life to see it. Well, today, bored at work waiting on some stuff, I popped open google earth and voila!
I love this. Often when I fly into Boston from Canada at night, I wonder what precisely I am seeing during the slow descent across Massachusetts. Really it’s the only thing I like about flying…
Also – could you really see the curve of the atmosphere like that, or is it an effect added later? So cool.
Nope – you can see the curvature of the earth from up there when flying at night. Quite beautiful.
wow:) I slept most of the time flew past north pole area, but really did saw some awesome geographic landscape around Mongolia:)
So is there a name for this lake & where is it? Flying into any city like Boston is pretty neat – - looking for familiar landmarks.
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Mom
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