Daily Photo – Crossing the Alps

July 10, 2013
Travel

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Hannibal did it by Elephant but I find it easier by aircraft - crossing the Alps that is. In this photo from 1991 everything point to this being a flight from Malta to London.

Daily Photo – Storm over Fort Myers Part 2

October 11, 2012
Black and White / Travel

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The cruising speed of a Boeing 737 is a shade over 500 miles per hour (all things being equal) so we'd traveled about eight miles closer to the cloud wall. Add to that the cloud wall was moving west, towards us and that yields the change in the cloud shapes between the two photo-sets.