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Thursday, October 01, 2009

Anchorage to LA

The terminal was pretty empty at 8:30am


I don't think the artist who did this mural anticipated that the airport would put ads up on top of the mural. Was this part of the 1% for the arts program? Is it legal to put ads on top of art works? It certainly shows a complete lack of aesthetic sense. Or is this an ad for people to become whale hunters?

Some of the destinations in the domestic terminal.


The flights are pretty full these days, even on a Wednesday in late September. I guess that's good to have full planes - less pollution per passenger.


Seattle's airport was a lot more crowded.


We scheduled a long enough stop in Seattle to meet our daughter for lunch.
But first we went out for some fresh air.

The eating choices inside security are pretty good.
But outside security they are pretty limited.
Since our daughter didn't have a ticket, we had to eat outside security.


Waiting at Seatac to take off.


A little out of Seattle.



I think these are the Channel Islands near Santa Barbara.


Closing in on LA.
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5 comments:

  1. Albert LewisThursday, October 1, 2009 at 3:38:00 PM AKDT

    One-percent-for-the-arts stuff is only just slightly more important than sheetrock and paint. It can be treated about the same as both of those, even if you're Diego Rivera working in Rockefeller Center, New York City.

    http://www.diego-rivera.org/rockefellercontroversy.html

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  2. nswfm CAThursday, October 1, 2009 at 3:40:00 PM AKDT

    Those are the Channel Islands off Ventura County and I can really see both of them from my home.

    This has more photos:
    http://www.nps.gov/chis/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm

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  3. nswfm CAThursday, October 1, 2009 at 5:18:00 PM AKDT

    I also can see the Channel Islands Harbor and the Port of Hueneme, so I'm not making it up.

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  4. SteveFriday, October 2, 2009 at 11:30:00 PM AKDT

    Albert, thanks for the link about the Rivera mural. Destroying art for political reasons - that's sort of like censorship. This is more like destroying art because you can make money from the space. It's almost worse because we as a cultural value money so much that lots of people see nothing wrong with this. Money trumps art.

    nswfm, thanks for the confirmation and the link to the neat pictures. I've been to Catalina several times, including a week at the boy scout camp many many years ago. I guess I should look into tours to the Channel Islands.

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  5. nswfm CASaturday, October 3, 2009 at 9:44:00 AM AKDT

    My pleasure, Steve. Welcome back to So Cal!

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