Sky over Japan 3:02 pm

I’ve got the ear buds stuck in at angle to get the bass notes better, Volbeat blasting away, all electric guitars and garbled English. The air conditioning is set to a comfortable level and despite not being able to see the ground I still enjoy the view. It turns out our cruising altitude is such that we are flying just above a layer of clouds. Hills and valleys, crags, boulders and ravines all formed of pristine white vapor, bathed in sunlight, against a backdrop of clear blue sky and even a few lighter tufts of cloud above. It really is a landscape, just like you would see from the car window, and we are speeding past with marvelous ease.