{"id":2668,"date":"2009-08-16T08:36:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T15:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2009-12-24T01:24:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T08:24:30","slug":"mfr-to-sfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/mfr-to-sfo\/","title":{"rendered":"MFR to SFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040279trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040279trim-655x800.jpg\" alt=\"mt. shasta from the air\" title=\"mt. shasta from the air\" width=\"655\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040279trim-655x800.jpg 655w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040279trim-204x250.jpg 204w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040279trim.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The visibility from Medford to <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ryanellie\/2008\/05\/san-francisco-trip\/>San Francisco<\/a> was excellent on this morning. I got some nice aerial shots of my town of Ashland that I&#8217;ll post at sometime in the future on <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/>my other blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The first picture today is of <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/tag\/mt-shasta\/>Mt. Shasta<\/a>. Whether going to California from Ashland by car or by plane, seeing one of the many faces of Mt. Shasta is always a highlight. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040280trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040280trim-800x471.jpg\" alt=\"Clair Eagle Lake Trinity Alps California airial view\" title=\"Clair Eagle Lake Trinity Alps California airial aerial view\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040280trim-800x471.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040280trim-250x147.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040280trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I believe the above photograph is of Clair Eagle Lake. I couldn&#8217;t get over the views we were being treated with. No one else on the plane seemed to even care or to bother to look out their window. I&#8217;m like a small kid when I fly and the visibility is good. These scenes aren&#8217;t to be wasted with a nap, book, or other distractions. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040289trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040289trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"airial view of san francisco california\" title=\"airial view of san francisco california\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040289trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040289trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040289trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have some other decent aerial shots of Angel Island, Alcatraz, Candlestick Park, and some of the San Francisco Bay&#8217;s bridges, but I think this is one of the better ones of the city itself. I used to give city tours (in Japanese in the early 90s), including night tours that featured a stop on Treasure Island, the land mass to the immediate left of the island in the middle of the Bay Bridge in this picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040298trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040298trim-590x800.jpg\" alt=\"south of san francisco landfill marsh wetlands california\" title=\"south of san francisco landfill marsh wetlands california\" width=\"590\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040298trim-590x800.jpg 590w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040298trim-184x250.jpg 184w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040298trim.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>South of San Francisco (we practically flew to San Jose before turning around to land at SFO) are these land masses filled with fun designs. I&#8217;m not sure what exactly the ground is here. Landfill? Marshes? Something else? In any event, the colors and patterns were even more amazing with the naked eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visibility from Medford to San Francisco was excellent on this morning. I got some nice aerial shots of my town of Ashland that I&#8217;ll post at sometime in the future on my other blog. The first picture today is of Mt. Shasta. Whether going to California from Ashland by car or by plane, seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[244,130,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4026,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/4026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}