BEAUTIFUL LOS CABOS

Just got back from five days of flying........and head back out again tomorrow after only a day and a half of rest and recovery time. Ended up in Toronto (YYZ..........25 degrees (-3 Celsius)...........brrrrr!), Los Cabos, Mexico (SJD)...........85 degrees (30 Celsius), and Cancun (CUN)......84 degrees (29 Celsius). Was a nice trip, but long. Here's a couple of photos of the hotel we stayed at. Absolutely gorgeous, but WAY TOO EXPENSIVE for my tastes. $25 for a basic hamburger, and $18 for a SMALL cheese pizza. Dieting would be easy for me here.....LOL I guess I'd make a horrible "rich person". Was pretty neat to watch the whales in the distance though. But, all in all, ...........I still prefer St Maarten (SXM)!

FLYING INTO SEATTLE

Last week I got to fly from Newark (EWR), to Seattle (SEA). Clouds covered the ground for almost 90% of our flight, which was a relatively short 4 hours and 53 minutes (normally around 5:50 or so). As we were about to start our descent into Seattle, the snow-covered mountains came into view. It was a spectacular view as always. As beautiful as the view is, I STILL would rather live in the warm climate of southern Florida. Now, off to work for a few days.

LONG, SKINNY, and DISAPPEARING

Continental is one of the few airlines in the world flying the long, skinny, Boeing B757-300 series aircraft. Slowly we are adding winglets to them to make them more fuel efficient. This plane is so long, that when you're riding in the back and looking up front, whenever you hit a little bit of turbulence, you can actually see the tube bouncing up and down. It certainly gets your attention the first time you see it. The engineers that designed this plane must have been quite good at computing stress points since this plane MUST have a lot of them. A few months ago Continental had the first and ONLY B-757-300 with winglets in the world. Pretty neat, eh?

COMMUTING VIEW

Every now and then, I get to observe a spectacular sunrise/sunset that I have the opportunity of photographing. Here's one of those shots. I took this picture about three weeks ago during a commute from Ft. Lauderdale (FLL) to Newark, NJ (EWR). Although the shot would have been much better from the cockpit, it just goes to show that shots from the passenger window turn out too.

HARD TO SEE IN SXM

During one of my site seeing adventures in St Maarten (SXM), I came across this little fellow staring me down. You have to admit, his camouflage is incredible, and he didn't move an inch for five minutes. Had I put any of the other shots I took of this little critter on here, you'd have been searching for a bit, but I decided to make it easy for you all!!! I think it's neat how nature puts so many things out there for us to see, yet many of us continually walk right past them.