My suitcase gets on the airplane. Then Southwest took 2 days to find it in Chicago.
We taxi past the lovely old 1940 Air Terminal Museum at Hobby Airport
The Houston Ship Channel, just outside I-610 East.
The Houston Ship Channel stretches off toward the Gulf.
Some ships unloading at a wide spot.
Cypress Creek feeding the north end of Lake Houston.
A meandering bayou, just north of Houston.
This bayou exhibits a rare double horseshoe.
We reach Chicago: Shedd Aquarium upper left. Planetarium middle right.
The Grand Mariner moors here in Burnham Harbor. The ship, blurred by the engine exhaust, appears in the lower left.
Foreground: Soldier's Field. Upper left: Field Museum. Upper right: Shedd Acquarium.
Hazy view of downtown Chicago: Willis (pronounced "Sears") Tower in the center.
The Cook County Correctional Facility.
Detail of airliner flaps and spoilers upon landing.
Dramatic Southwest. (Wish they could've kept track of my suitcase!)
Another 1940 building: Chicago's old Air National Guard building.
Clouds, sky, and a winglet
More dramatic bayou meandering. (We're back near Texas.)
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Wonderful clouds today.
I-59 dramatically crosses I-610 North.
Houston's East Loop, including Williams (pronounced "Transco") Tower
Montrose area just north of I-59. (St. Stephen's Church in lower right.)
Miller Outdoor Theatre, upper Left. Rose Garden, lower left. Houston Museum of Natural Science, lower right.
Houston's world-renowned Medical Center.
Airplanes almost take the roof off the Mt. Carmel Academy, next to Hobby Airport.
