Riding in the Tube

We flew from JFK to Charlotte, North Carolina today.  We are here visiting relatives on Kathy's side, who we have not seen in maybe 5 years.  We got a good price on the flight, but because it was the cheapskate price, we couldn't choose our seats - they were assigned by the airline when we checked in.  The good news is that we were across the aisle from each other.  The bad news is I NEVER fly without sitting at a window seat, as you have seen on my blog, where I do photographs of the landscape we are flying over.  Fortunately, it was less than a two hour flight, so I managed to survive without photographing the outside.  But it felt as if I was riding in a tube in the sky, which I was!  What I can't quite imagine is that an airplane is a magic carpet that gives us a completely different view of the world, and half the people in the cabin have closed their window shades so they can't even see the Earth below!