{"id":608,"date":"2009-12-04T02:31:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T07:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:35","slug":"thanksgiving-travels-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/thanksgiving-travels-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving travels 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple pictures to share from the plane rides:<\/p>\n<p>Flying out of Seattle shortly after sunrise, I looked down and saw this crazy pattern in the trees, where someone had very carefully harvested every other square up and down the sides of these foothills.  No idea why they do logging like that, but from the air, it looks like a chessboard:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chessboard of the Giants<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Chess_forest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Chess_forest-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Forest\" title=\"Chess Forest\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the return trip, we left Green Bay just before sunrise on a very overcast day.  The clouds with the pre-dawn colors on them looked just like a sea, complete with waves:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cloud Sea<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_2362.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_2362-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"Cloud Sea\" title=\"Cloud Sea\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later, the clouds broke as we flew over Milwaukee, WI, and we got a pretty awesome view of the city lights from not too far above the ground:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MKE at dawn<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_2369.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_2369-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"MKE at dawn\" title=\"MKE at dawn\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-613\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple pictures to share from the plane rides: Flying out of Seattle shortly after sunrise, I looked down and saw this crazy pattern in the trees, where someone had very carefully harvested every other square up and down the sides of these foothills. No idea why they do logging like that, but from the air, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}