With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

What do your eyes see?

2011 December 04 06:42

Perfect is the enemy of good enough. I keep having these grandiose ideas of the really groovy stuff I want to blog about, but then I don't have the time to edit up the nice photo set, so the post gets delayed, and I don't write the post. I have trips in October and November that I have lots of photos that I want to document. Several interesting posts about airplanes and one about cars coming up.

One quick on that the pictures are ready for. I flew to a conference in Seattle early in November. On the way back, from SEA to ATL, I photographed this unique-looking river-convergence. Note the airport marked with green dots:

I didn't have my iPad along on this trip, but I figured that this formation of rivers, town, and airport had to be fairly unique.

It turns out that I was flying over "little Egypt", which is the very southern tip of the state of Illinois. Here's that same spot on the sectional on the screen of my iPad:

The town is Cairo (pronounced "kay-row", by the way). I find it often tough to figure out where you are when you're looking at stuff from an airliner, but this time I got lucky and managed to figure it out.