02.18.09
Siberia Pics
Made it into Shanghai about 12 hours ago. Weather is cold and rainy, but still considerably warmer than Chicago. Here are some pictures of Siberia taken from the plane.
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A Midwesterner ON the Middle Kingdom
Made it into Shanghai about 12 hours ago. Weather is cold and rainy, but still considerably warmer than Chicago. Here are some pictures of Siberia taken from the plane.
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Josh
said,
February 18, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Welcome back! Hope you enjoy the little time you have around here and I look forward to your updates about the trip.
You ought to go get a good haircut.
Gabrielle
said,
February 20, 2009 at 12:13 pm
When I flew to China, I couldn’t see Siberia for the clouds. Looks pretty.
Jiang
said,
February 22, 2009 at 5:58 am
Nice pictures. It seems the air is quite clean there. I thought the plane flied cross the Pacific Ocean.
Benjamin Ross
said,
February 22, 2009 at 8:38 am
@Jiang
When you fly from Chicago, you fly North up through the Antarctic and then back down south, not East. It’s much quicker that way. Actually, even when you fly from LA or San Francisco, you head North, although along the coast, through Alaska and Siberia.
John Biesnecker
said,
March 21, 2009 at 5:48 pm
It’s funny, I think I have a picture of that same river cutting through those mountains. Every time I make that flight I try to imagine what it’s like to live down there… not quite as easy as life at either end of that plane trip, for sure.