One of the many things we love about flying is how it’s so different every time. When we used to drive from SB to SD, any variation was a welcome respite from what often presented as monotony at best (frustration and danger at worst). So those dreaded drives perhaps made flying to SD even more fun for us. For example, going much higher than our usual 1-4.5k’ and faster than our usual 110mph.
5836 High Outside LA
Here offshore looking back across Palos Verdes to LA and beyond, it felt a little like the brief glimpse from an airliner as it takes off. This was about 10,000 feet and going 150mph or so. Unlike an airliner though, we enjoyed the view through wide open windows rather than a small hazy plastic porthole. Unlike the airline view this lasted an hour rather than a couple of minutes during climb or descent. This height also gave us some fun (and safe) views of those airliners.
5815 Outside
Though we were safely outside the 3D corridors in the air for airline departures and arrivals, a cropped view like this max zoom shot can give the impression of a menacing white shark. For we who know how safe flying is, it’s all about fun and excitement mingled with some concern for the thousands of people down on those dangerous roads. During our stay in SD we even took a break from fun with family to explore the area from back down at our preferred altitude, intimate with the earth but not bound by it.
5857 La Jolla Jolly
In half an hour or so, we took in so much beauty and stoked up so much happiness it made sitting in SD traffic again almost tolerable. 🙂
Along the coast somewhere near Torrey Pines I spotted this spiral rip tide outside the break. Surfers seemed to be using it for access to the rides generated by a hurricane off Mexico.
5925 Outside Perspective
We’ve enjoyed riding rip tides, but didn’t know how they look in context until flying. From down there on the water, we’d never have guessed this one was making an unusual spiral pattern. High and outside our normal perspective, we see the world anew.
John & Anne Wiley 
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