SOME TARMACS OFFER BETTER DEPARTURE VIEWS THAN OTHERS
The capitol from the tarmac, seen from Alaska Flight 7 (Author photo)
Departures, when heading home after a good trip, are always bittersweet. But few offer a farewell equal to DCA:
The capitol alit across the Potomac (above) and tilting downhill (below) as the plane gathered speed, amount to a salute to democracy and a farewell metaphor for at least one westbound passenger.
The city making a metaphor (Author photo)
But the sparkling Northern Virginia landscape (below) on take-off serves as postscript: we’re all still in this beautiful world together.
On to San Francisco.
Leaving the Potomac, and DC, behind (Author photo)