Thread 2832584

>You're at the airplane still flying
>You're about to land very soon
>Look outside at your window and stare down

post your one-time experience sighting during your trips

Glad I wasn't about to land very soon here. The body of water is the Gulf of Aqaba; the territory of the Zionist entity begins at its head.

>>2832625
ew, gross

This was like 13 years ago, I was flying back to the US from Germany, we were over what must have been Northeast Canada and I looked down and saw what looked like several dozen if not nearly 100 small to mid sized lakes, and some of the bigger lakes had big rocks jagging out of their middles ranging in color from reddish brown to dark khaki. Looked beautiful and otherworldly.

Never been able to find any information about this place which makes me wonder if I didn't just imagine the whole thing.

>>2832584 (OP)
>Love Fall of Civilizations podcast
>Episode on Mongols is released
>Flight to China in 2 months
>Hold out until return journey
>Listen to the story of Genghis Khan et al on a Beijing - London flight
>Imagine the stories as I get to see the geography underneath
>Easiest flight in world

>>2832651
Seeing Baffin Island during a clear summer day was pretty spectacular. The majority of the island was bare tundra, but there were still many sizable snowdrifts.

>>2834919
>baffin island
They don't make em like this any more. Pure kino:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEacFrHfcIU

Every time I fly it feels like something that shouldn't be possible. I shouldn't be 38 fucking thousand feet high in the air, calmly cruising across vast swaths of impossible terrain. Landing always feels like waking up from a dream.

>>2835131
It is insane to me how normalized flying has become.

Flying from Almaty to Dushanbe in the early '90s I was one of 2 or 3 passengers in an old An-42 or something.
It was mid-day, winter, and I was trying not to think about the plane's maintenance history.
The view was spectacular, snow capped mountains as far as I could see.
I moved to the the other side and looked out. Snow capped mountains as far as I could see.

>>2835817
I feel like it never should have
Only the elite should be allowed and plebs must stay in their hometowns

>>2838725
There would be no elites if the plebs were content to live in their old family abode and weren't hurrying back and forth all over the country in service of giant corporations.