Wednesday evening I caught the new Alaska Airlines nonstop flight from Raleigh-Durham (RDU) to Seattle-Tacoma (SEA).
The sun was shining at RDU when we took off at 1750 but as we headed west across the Appalachian Mountains clouds soon blocked our view of the earth some seven miles below.
I had a window seat in an exit row over the wing so had a pretty good view as we flew across our cloud-shrouded country. Many times I could see three layers of clouds and sometimes the turbulence was moderately severe. The wings acted more like a bird's with plenty of up and down motion and the cabin crew had to stow the service carts twice because of the bumps.
Finally we crossed the Cascade Mountains and the clouds cleared so I had a spectacular view of a sunset above the clouds and then over Puget Sound as we descended from the south on our landing flight path into the slight north wind.
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| As I looked out the window (porthole?) |
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| What a little cropping will do |
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| Southern Puget Sound comes into view with the Cascades below and Mt Rainier off to the left |
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