a thing in 129 photos flying Flew down to Florida on Thursday. Airborne over the jungle at 3pm. Nice lil vacay. Gave me the strength to finish up the winter. ...and flew home in the afternoon. Florida from the air. On Tuesday morning, I headed down to Florida for a week and a half to see my dad in the hospital and spend time with the fam. Flying out over the same coastal town of Suðurnesjabær after a brief layover in Iceland. Finland is green and pretty. And we're headed back home! ...Florida-bound to visit my family. Flight home! Excited to not have to drive for a while! Sky tubin. Maybe it was the new vaporizer, but I saw a documentary about flying fish and just could not stop thinking about them and how crazy it is that they exist. Flying. Fish. ...and then took me to the airport to head back home! Great to see you, everyone! In the air... Got to see the sunrise from the air before landing! Thanks again for having me, Grant & Aki! I had an amazing trip! Suddenly, a city! Red-eye home. A well-timed yank on Maddy's leash is the only thing that prevented this pigeon's wiener-y death. Bingo! Airborne. See you later, lovely Caye Caulker. ...and landed. Fifteen minutes after taking off we circled San Pedro... The elevated vantage-point made it easy to see how the flowing water divides the land over time. ...and tiny islands in the water. So neat to see so much lush, uninhabited forest... Cool to watch the approach and landing from over the pilot's shoulder. Flying south along Belize's coastline. You can see the Placenia Peninsula in the background. Gorgeous jungle-river view under the wing. I love flying in little planes. Back in the air a little after 2pm, I looked out the window and noticed things were starting to look gorgeously turquoise and tropical. The smile of a man who's been in a New York winter for too long. Seatmates. Hello, gorgeous. Pictures from the air using "miniature" mode. Model buildings. Headed home. Who's ready for a family reunion? Up, up and away! Fourteen-hour line. ...and began the long journey home. Four hour flight to Japan. We spotted Boracay from the air. Some kind of sea farming going on down below. Flying out over Manila. Chasing the sunset. Up. Coastline / wing alignment. Florida here we come! Our plane's shadow encapsulated in a double-rainbow sphere. Superman ejection! I got sweaty palms just watching them. Outskirts of Managua. Momotumbo volcano from the air! Getting close! ...on to Managua. ...to Miami! 6:30 flight from Newark... One more flight to Managua! Arrival. PANAMA! Chasing the sunrise at 35,000 feet. Instructional piglets! On our way! Skivilization. Sort of looks like home. Super-powers of the well-traveled man. Probably not a crosswalk. Up in the air above somewhere with no houses. While waiting in line for security, we made friends with a woman who was in line with us who ended up sitting next to me on our flight! Yay, airplane strangers! ...homeward bound! TA-DA! Tube in the sky. Coming in over Rockaway Beach! Landing. By 10pm that night, I was headed home! Coming into NYC. Coming down over Dayton. Above the beautiful cloud-ground! Flying over Manhattan. We made it in the air just in time to watch the last of the sunlight break through the clouds and bathe NYC in peach light. Red eye! Wheels coming down over the Rockaways with the sun rising in the east. Bye, Bali! Denpasar. TOUCHDOWN IN BALI! (After almost thirty hours of travel! Oof). ...SEVENTEEN-HOUR FLIGHT? Official start of the honeymoon! Meredith's parents were seated right behind us and my parents were seated behind them. I tried to take a sneaky photo, but my mom was on to me. Haha. 5:55am, in the air! Kentucky. See you tomorrow night. Central park looks like aliens showed up and airlifted a huge chunk right out of the middle of the city. I know this is dumb, but somehow it's always shocking to me how much it looks "just like the map!" from the air. I love flying over NYC in the daylight. Southbound over NYC at night. Beautiful. And here's the one pic I snapped on the flight back home! Thanks again for taking us to the shooting range, DJ. Oh man, was that fucking fun. Crazy, right? I can't believe the colors! Fast-forward a few hours later and I'm up in the air flying over weird stuff. As we were nearing the Bay Area, there were all of these crazy-colored bodies of water. I'm hoping it's not pollution, but whatever was causing it, it sure was pretty! What in the world are those? About 30 seconds after this pic was taken, I conked the fuck out and slept the rest of the way to Texas. Sooooooo, exciting! Hark, Jamaica! I awoke to see that the water below had changed colors.
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