Los Angeles > Philadelphia AA2235

2024/09/06 | Travel

Very early morning start at LAX, boarding before sun was even up Take off, Chevron , El Segundo Tip of Rancho Palos Verdes & Catalina IslandRancho Palos Verdes and Annaheim up to the mountains Banking around Rancho Palos Verdes and sun about to peak through San Bernardino Pass Los Angeles Harbor and Long Beach Here she comes still banking around Rancho Palos Verdes Downey Turnbull Canyon Angeles National Forest and San Gabriel river Mt Baden Powell and Mt San Antonio In this light, Mt San Antonio looking liek it still has snow on it The 15, Walmart distrubution center and Bell Mountain catching first light Barstow Marine Corps Logistic Base, Calico Dry lake and Daggett Solar Farm Coyote Dry Lake bed Near Coyote Dry Lake  Langford Lake, Tiefort Mountains and Bicycle Lake Army Airfield next to Fort Irwin Red Pass LakeSilurian lake, Renoville along road to Death Valley Kingston Peak Sandy Valley, and running straight up the photo, the California Nevada State Border Rainbow Mountains Wilderness, which overlooks Las Vegas Summerlin South and Spring Valley, suburbs of Las Vegas Closest I’ve ever been to Las Vegas, Harry Reid International Airport Las Vegas, had no idea how close the airport was to the Las Vegas Boulevard with all it’s Casinos Solar Farm powering all those slot machines 🙂 Valley of Fire State Park Atlatl on the left, which has a campground and the awesome colours of the valley of fire red sandstone, and looks like that would be a pretty epic locationWoauw, how is that plateau next to Moapa Valley looks so perfectly flat from up here Virgin river Virgin Peak On the Nevada Arizona State Border St George with Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, Utah at top and Arizone on bottom Arizona Colorado City All those bouldersCoral Pink Sand Dunes Sticking out in this light this morning Utah Arizona border if you imagine a horizontal line through that escarpment Kanab Johnson Canyon Canyon Point and Flag Point sort of like the blue mountains, but not quite, pretty impressive either way Deer Spring Point Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument in central Kane County, Utah, Paria Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument under the clouds near Big Water Mt Pennell Hall Divide Bull Frog Bay Lake Powell That red stone colour is just crazy San Juan County so much to explore and a gold mine for locations 🙂 Fry Canyon Canyon Lands National Park Near Bedrock Montrose Near Squaw Hill Sheep Knob Morrow Point Dam Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests Gunnison river Big Park, lots of expolring and woauw, in the center near South Baldy Mountain, those rocky outcrops on the ridge line, from here it looks like remnants of a castle ruin zoom in, this looks incredible Park Cone and Taylor Park Reservoir Emma Burr Mountain Buena Vista, Chaffee county ColoradoCentral Colorado Regional Airport Antero Reservoir comes with a salt lake 🙂 Spinney Mountain and Eleven Mile Canyon Reservoir Divide Divide, small town Outer Suburbs of Colorado Springs El Paso County been lucky with the clouds sofsr Limon, Lincoln county Dwight Eisenhower Highway aka 22 Flagler St Francis Kansas McCook, Red Willow County Nebraska Axtell & Kearney York Wahoo, Saunders County Platte River nesar Omaha Outer suburbs of Omaha Ralston Eppley Airport on the Missouri River, which is also the state border between Nebraska and Iowa Des Moines, Iowa State Capitol Des Moines river Sully Jasper County Grinnell Montezuma all the windfarms in Poweshiek County Cedar Rapids Iowa City Iowa River and regional airport Rochester on the Cedar River Eldridge Mighty Mississippi River, state border between Iowa and Illinois Beaver Island at Clinton on the Mississippi Sterling on Rock river Dixon De Kalb Fox River Aurora Chicago O’Hare International Airport Waste management on the Des Plaines river Chicago, looks pretty big Chicago cbd Fish Lake near Nottowa Coldwater Hillsdale Devils Lake and Round lake Adrian The 75 at Avalon 🙂 Isle St George, Middle Bass, Rattle Snake and South Bass Island, and just on top of St George is border between America and Canada Avon Lake just south of Cleveland Cleveland Hopkins international airport Bellwood Duncannon on the Susquehanna River Hershey Home of Hershey chocolate Ephrata 222 at Ephrata Terre Hill, looking very north europe from up here and I wonder if that yellow I can see is sunflower fields Morgan Town Big Estate in Greenville, your’s for about 4.5mill Thompson Bridge at Brandywine Creek Chester, and what looks like a burned out church zoom in, yes that’s a burnt out shell at Chester coming into land, boeing helicopter center landed so many AA planes quick stop and then last leg to New York

Leaving LAX

the flight path across America

final approach

cloudless morning sky

those few clouds when flying across Arizona and Utah

and then pretty much cloud less path to Philadelphia

Shoot done in LA and did a little extra shoot in the desert whilst there ( stay tuned for that one ) so now of to New York via Philadelphia

Sonny Vandevelde

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