Flying home on September 11th

a road across artic canada
Originally uploaded by pmdcsb.

... was no big deal. The plane was full, the view was amazing. We flew over greenland, and saw the gigantic glaciers diving into the ocean. That was particularly amazing because I was reading how the greenland norse society emerged and collapsed (on 'Collapse', more on that book soon). And there it was, the end of the world just below me.

Later we crossed canada, where civilization emerges very slowly, over hours of flight. First one isolated road (can you see it?), then vegetation, then a small village with fields, and finally a city. It's very very very far away from anything ...