Alaska

I just touched-down in Alaska where I'll spend the next two weeks.  I've got a lot of activities to planned for the coming days.  The flight from Minneapolis gave me a taste of what is ahead of me in Alaska.

when I bought the ticket, I intentionally selected a window seat on the right side of the plane, because my guidebook suggested that side had the best views approaching Anchorage.  For the first time, I didn't want an upgrade, but I got oneanyway.  m It is hard to turn down 1st class service on a 6 hour flight & it was too late even if I wanted.

Most of the flight was pretty uneventful, but when we approached the Coastal Range the views where something else even from my side.   But soon, I was staring at ocean while the other side was exposed to Alaska's grand mountains.  I hesitantly asked the attendant if there were any right-side window seats if it meant moving back to--gulp-- coach.  There weren't but the she arranged for me to switch seats temporarily with a nearby passenger who was accommodating to the request.  That's where I got this picture.

I'll try to update my blog regularly while I'm here, but its not too promising.  I don't even have mobile data in the Anchorage airport.  Since I wasn't pleased with the picture quality on my  shuttle launch trip, I'll also upload some higher resolution pictures to a Picasa web album, but I don't know a good way to directly link those to my blog from my phone.