Views from the flight to Chicago

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1:22pm PDT: Farmland east of San Francisco, 10+ minutes into flight.

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2:23pm PDT: Snow on the mountains, probably Utah or Colorado, 1h 10m into flight.

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2:34pm PDT: Maybe I can find this unique shaped & colored lake in Google earth and figure out where we were. đŸ˜‰

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3:11pm PDT: Where in the USA are we now. GPS tag on this photo (first in flight to have one) is 43.963902, -102.569992… Someone find us! It looks like we are over the plains, eastern Wyoming, Nebraska or South Dakota, but no data connection for the phone GPS to use…

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3:42pm PDT: Windmill Farm, the little white toothpicks in the ground. Taken from GPS coordinates 43.652653, -96.815262. Followed by scattered towers and then a second wind farm a bit to the east. Small and large wind farms stretching out along to the north of our flight path for the next 15 minutes…. The largest I saw had about 80 towers…

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4:10pm PDT: Starting our decent into Chicago. Pilot said we were about 225 miles out, if I remember correctly…
(Photo GPS: 42.970509, -91.606705)

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4:19pm PDT: Last picture as we sevens to Chicago and electronics need to turned off… (GPS: 42.632034, -89.481163)

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On Board Awaiting Departure…

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Ready to depart San Francisco as soon as everyone else gets on board. Estimated ETD: 12:57pm.

Next update from Chicago. Here’s hoping for clearing weather around Syracuse by evening…

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Ready to Head Home…

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We are all checked in with United and through TSA at San Francisco International Airport. We have never flown out this late in the day, so we wanted to give ourselves enough time for baggage check, etc., and now we have about an hour wait until boarding begins if all stays on schedule.

Flying United Flight #1278, SFO to ORD (Chicago O’Hare) departs SFO @ 12:57pm, arrives ORD @ 7:09pm.

Our ride should be arriving in the next 20 minutes or so….

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On Board and Awaiting Departure..

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Priority boarding make life better đŸ™‚ Push Back from the gate scheduled for about 20 minutes…

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Some Snow Caps in Utah…

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Had some clearing skies across western Colorado and finally caught sight of some snow on the mountains in eastern Utah, from 36,400 feet, according to the GPS at 10:56am Mountain time…

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