One day, on my way to Chicago...
I have always loved looking out the plane window on a clear day, watching
the cities and towns go by. There they are, whole communities, with
histories and civic pride and everything. Most times I haven't a
good enough fix on the plane's position to know what town I'm looking at.
But on one exceptional flight on 27 May 1999 from Washington National (DCA)
to Chicago O'Hare (ORD), in the aft section of a lightly-loaded United
737, I was able to get at my camera and snap away. What you see are
the cities I felt confident in identifying from the 1995 Rand McNally
Road Atlas. They follow a time-sequential 150-mile track from
Columbus, OH - Ft. Wayne, IN. I went to Yahoo! and found the links
to the local pages for each one. Clicking on an image will download
a 256-color .jpg file with 500 pixels vertical resolution. But be
warned--they are on the order of 140 - 150 KB. It's weird--on the
Columbus photo I was able to note the spot where I stayed overnight when
I was driving through on I-70.
Columbus,
OH -- Population 632,910
--And for the real Columbus folks out there,
a striking 1200 x 810-pixel view of downtown Columbus
(275 KB)
Marysville,
OH -- Population 9,656
Bellefontaine,
OH -- Population 12,142
Wapakoneta,
OH -- Population 9,214
Van
Wert, OH -- Population 10,891
Ft.
Wayne, IN -- Population 173,072
As they always used to say on "Hee-Haw", SAAAALLLUTE!
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