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wing — Flew down to Florida on Thursday.

wing — ...and flew home in the afternoon.

wing — Obligatory wing shot.

wing — ...and then took me to the airport to head back home! Great to see you, everyone!

wing — In the air...

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wing — See you in a week, NY!

wing — On the tarmac, the sun was dropping behind the skyline as it set.

wing — ...while on layover in Miami.

wing — Bingo! Airborne. See you later, lovely Caye Caulker.

wing — Fifteen minutes after taking off we circled San Pedro...

wing — At the airport I bought an $80 USD plane ticket out to San Pedro (the island made famous by Madonna's La Isla Bonita )

wing — Flying south along Belize's coastline. You can see the Placenia Peninsula in the background.

wing — Gorgeous jungle-river view under the wing.

wing — Touchdown in Belize!

wing — Back in the air a little after 2pm, I looked out the window and noticed things were starting to look gorgeously turquoise and tropical.

wing — We spotted Boracay from the air.

wing — Some kind of sea farming going on down below.

wing — Flying out over Manila.

wing — Chasing the sunset.

wing — Up.

wing — Coastline / wing alignment.

wing — Florida here we come!

wing — Outskirts of Managua.

wing — Momotumbo volcano from the air!

wing — Getting close!

wing — ...on to Managua.

wing — Touchdown in Ohio.

wing — One more flight to Managua!

wing — Our Panamanian layover had way fewer hot Van Halen guitar licks than I'd hoped.

wing — PANAMA!

wing — Skivilization.

wing — ...homeward bound!

wing — Angelhair!

wing — Sarah turned her feathery mask backwards and sprouted head-wings.

wing — Bye, Bali!

wing — Denpasar.

wing — Kentucky.

wing — I love flying over NYC in the daylight.

wing — A little over two hours later and the landscape below made it pretty clear that we were over Florida.

wing — Coming down.

wing — It's like a perfect rectangle carved into the city.

wing — Central Park coming into view.

wing — I can see our house from here! (Seriously).

wing — No matter how many times I've done it, flying over Manhattan is one of my favorite things and never fails to completely bend my mind.

wing — And using the macro setting, background blur! Check out the crystals of frost around the little hole. Pretty neat, right?

wing — Then I started playing around with the camera's depth of field . Foreground blur!

wing — ...and after a bit of futzing around, I managed to set up a custom "vivid color" profile so that all my pictures would turn out super-saturated and cartoon-y looking (which is the way I like 'em!).

wing — As soon as the plane was in the air, I took out my cam and began dicking around with the manual settings. I was playing around with the white balance in this pic...

wing — Touchdown!

wing — Coming in over George Town (the capital).

wing — A couple of hours later and we'd arrived! Here are a bunch of cruise ships docked in the bay.

wing — Korea, here we come.

wing — Fourteen hours later, we'd arrived at Incheon Airport, just outside of Seoul, Korea.

wing — About 30 seconds after this pic was taken, I conked the fuck out and slept the rest of the way to Texas.

wing — ...then boarded the plane. Easy Jet, baby! Easy Jet. (Plane ticket from Budapest to Berlin? $24 a piece!!).

wing — ...gone. Goodbye NYC (for now). San Francisco, here I (reluctantly) come.

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Goodbye to the blustery, rainy, already getting dark at 4:30pm east coast!

trip to cali part 1: nyc to la

December 10, 2003

flying ↗+

wing — Attention Staff at the Whitney: you can email me here. I look forward to hearing from you.

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wing — After hours of darkness over the Atlantic, we finally hit the eastern seaboard.

wing — I don't know if it was the weird nostalgia that comes from the end of a trip or if it was the plane's neato yellow engine and bad-ass cautionary graphics that did it...but shortly after becoming airborne I became inspired to start taking some...DRUMROLL....artsy photos! Yay art!

wing — Yay, JetBlue!

wing — Look at the crazy wing - I guess that's what cheap tickets'll getcha.

wing — I wasn't planning on going, but I found cheap tickets online last minute. (Literally, I ended up buying tickets at 4am on Friday morning for a flight at 2pm later that day. What's better than the InterWeb? For seriously.)