Houston to San Jose - Roads etc, from 30,000ft
 

I wanted to show some of the non-US folks some scenery from a different perspective - these are some roads I spied from the window this morning...

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Houston----------------------West Texas----------------------New Mexico---------------------The Rockies
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Las Vegas 1------------------------Las Vegas 2------------------------Las Vegas 3
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Silicon Valley 1----------------Silicon Valley 2----------------California
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Traffic, California style.... :(

A day in the life of....

A wingtip...
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http://img202.exs.cx/img202/2694/wingtip50yq.th.jpg http://img202.exs.cx/img202/852/wingtip60qk.th.jpg http://img202.exs.cx/img202/6463/wingtip74wf.th.jpg http://img202.exs.cx/img202/3196/wingtip80gt.th.jpg
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Houston from the air...
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Downtown-------------------Galleria

Clean Power in West Texas
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A small peak at West Texas Oil Fields
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haha California traffic sucks ass. ive lived down there its pretty nice just too much traffic. i almost thought you were on a mountain then i saw the water. lol great pics man

ah yes the scenery from a plane so how is California treating you so far?

is there also a speed limit on those roads?
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if so:
a) why?
b) haha!

you should see the Wyoming/Montana roads. its like bare road for miles. but there are a shitload of crosses beside the road and its intimidating!

thanks for the aerial views !

specially funny was the "A day in life of the winglet" :D

I LOL'd at the day in the life comments too!

Thanks for posting these pics, RC.

A lot of the roads in west Texas are like this, hilly, sweeping bends, no other traffic for miles around. I drove from El Paso (on the TX/NM/Mexico border) to Carlsbad in New Mexico, maybe a two or three hour drive depending on your speed (150miles). this was during the day on a weekday. I saw scant traffic on my journey, and it was real fun ragging the Trans Am through the twisty mountain roads, big dual carriageways with 90-100mph bends...

Yes, there are speed limits (75mph) but if there is no-one around to see you then who is to know you broke them? We hit 135mph a few times, and were averaging a hundred most of the way...

Impressive scenery. A total different view than when I would look outside the window when flying home.

Nice!