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[wispfox]

Yesterday = the longest day _ever_. Seriously. Awake at 5:30am, East Coast time, because my sister's baby was crying. In a plane from around 9:20am, East Coast time until 5:30pm, West Coast time, with two stops in between.

Yes. Long day.

Arizona was not involving me going outside, although I smelled the air between the plane and the exit passageway. It smelled interesting. :)

Also - the scenary was strange enough while landing there that I half expected the announcer to be talking to me in another language. It was sufficiently similar to Spain, apparently, to confuse me.

California, thus far, has entailed me being in shock because of the _green_ all over the place. It also smelled interesting, but I could not identify the scent. Oh! And sun! And warm! And _flat_! Weird...

Only seen Sacramento so far, and not much of that, due to severe exhaustion. But I managed to not go to bed until 10pm, west coast time. Of course, I woke up about 6 times during the night, and my brain refused to believe that it was not sunny out yet at 5am. That was confusing.

Anyway. Brunch soon!

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Ye Gods, what were you doing on crosstown streets?

[starphire.livejournal.com]

"Oh! And sun! And warm! And _flat_! Weird... "


Having been edumacated on my birth state in grade school, I think of california as a many-faceted land, given to extremes of climate and geography, at least, if not in culture as well...I suppose one doesn't quite see the Sierras on the horizon from sactocal. Them's Mountains.

Re: Ye Gods, what were you doing on crosstown streets?

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Actually, we were on a highway, and we _could_ see mountains way off in the distance. But... way off in the distance, rather than being blocked by hills or trees or other mountains!

[starphire.livejournal.com]

Ah, well...see, I spent much of my childhood just W. of Sacramento. I remember seeing the mountains (or at least the foothills - the snow-covered peaks are farther away) on clear days from open places, but I was presuming that the air has gotten hazier since then, and the immediate landscape more built-up, so I was just being pessimistic in that "you can't go home again" kind of way.
To me, "flat land" is so when you can see the curvature of the earth...not many good places for that around here, sadly. Yeah, call me a Flat Earth snob.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*smiles* No, I've not yet seen true flat land. I realize this. But _still_!