Sometimes I’ll glance out the window of an airplane and think “Now that’s someplace I need to check out”.
Have y’all ever visited a place that you first caught sight of out the window– of a bus, a train, or the car — and been intrigued? To the point of wanting to visit that place?
For me a couple places stand out. Gayatri and I once passed over Tunis at night on the way back to Chicago from Gaborone. This was before the cell phone era so you’ll have to use your imagination.
This place below, which I can best figure is near Qikiqtarjuaq in the Canadian Arctic seemed so intriguing with its glacier.
The same flight passed over Svalbard, Norway (if you’ve ever read The Golden Compass) but I didn’t have the presence of mind to get over to the window seat!
The African-American Artic explorer Matthew Henson was a hero of mine back in the day — so yea, something about the Arctic has always appealed.
We did a fly over the Okavango Delta.
We really want to give it a good walk around (but not within stompin’ range of the elephants)
Maybe you’ve also passed over Glen Canyon heading to California
So what places have called out to you from the window of a plane, a bus, a train, a car?
Maybe you’ve followed that call? You’ve gotta share that adventure!
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