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Travel and biscuits
Mar. 24th, 2022 20:42No real flight trauma. Alaska Air worked same as Southwest. Up and Down smoothly. A few minor differences the largest of which is the Southwest weirdness in the way they load people. I'm used to how it works so it is easy for me but having an assigned seat is OK. I paid for an upgrade and had leg room.
The biggest deal with Alaska is it was non-stop, a feature that SW does not have. Really nice to be able to get here without getting off the plane in some random faceless airport and wait for a different plane. This was all in one long shot.
One of the few times I've ever flown where there were no clouds at all. And me without a map. No way to know where we were. But spectacular geography that I did not think to get on a picture until the mountains came up:
These mountains went on for 454 minutes of flight time. I think they are part of the Rio Grande National Forest east of Telluride, CO.
This was in the Cascades I think. Pretty sure it is Rainier. Not too far from the final approach into Seattle.
In hind sight I'm kicking myself for not thinking I could get a good picture of some of the amazing geography I saw. I've flown all my life but seldom when the skies were so clear and with what turns out to be a decent camera, my Pixel 5a.
And dinner:
Very cool restaurant, Fat's Chicken and Waffles. While we were there run by a black woman wearing a t-shirt with Huey Newton's jail mug shot on it. The grits and biscuit were great. The chicken tried too hard to be unique. I wasn't about to tell her that, though.
The biggest deal with Alaska is it was non-stop, a feature that SW does not have. Really nice to be able to get here without getting off the plane in some random faceless airport and wait for a different plane. This was all in one long shot.
One of the few times I've ever flown where there were no clouds at all. And me without a map. No way to know where we were. But spectacular geography that I did not think to get on a picture until the mountains came up:
These mountains went on for 454 minutes of flight time. I think they are part of the Rio Grande National Forest east of Telluride, CO.
This was in the Cascades I think. Pretty sure it is Rainier. Not too far from the final approach into Seattle.
In hind sight I'm kicking myself for not thinking I could get a good picture of some of the amazing geography I saw. I've flown all my life but seldom when the skies were so clear and with what turns out to be a decent camera, my Pixel 5a.
And dinner:
Very cool restaurant, Fat's Chicken and Waffles. While we were there run by a black woman wearing a t-shirt with Huey Newton's jail mug shot on it. The grits and biscuit were great. The chicken tried too hard to be unique. I wasn't about to tell her that, though.
