March 29

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Off to Kansas for a family visit.  Leaving Detroit Metro (DTW).

A (fairly) clear look at Detroit.  The Renaissance Center has an easy-to-recognize silhouette.

The bridge to Canada is just above those words.  The Detroit River is between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

A wider view.  The Detroit riverfront is in the upper left corner (you can see the Ren Cen).  The expressway at the right edge is Interstate 94.

Shortly after the prev, we went through the clouds.  It was cloudy all the way to Lake Michigan.

That's Benton Harbor, Michigan, where the white point sticks out into the lake (a bit above and right of center).

It stayed clear over the lake.  I got the clearest view of Chicago I've ever seen from the air.

That white-covered rectangle that points right is Navy Pier, and all the green in the lower left are Grant Park and Millennium Park.

West of Chicago.  I thought the houses looked like Australian art dots.

I like the contrast between the man-made shapes and the rivers.

Hmm.  I wonder what this is.  I found it in maps.google.com, but there was no label.  It's just east of Batavia.

Ok, just another 20 seconds of research was required.

I thought there was a particle accelerator somewhere near Chicago. I googled "Batavia accelerator," and, of course Google knew all about the Tevatron......

Lots of clouds on the second half of the trip, too.

Descending toward Kansas City.

I thought this was interesting -- so many things going on, all in one set of fields.....

I saw lots of purple trees, as we got closer to the ground.

Here we are at MCI.

DTW to MCI is about 17 hours in the car, and 1.5 hours in a commercial airplane......

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