Flight to Fort Worth, Texas

On February 29, we took off on our first trip of the year, which due to Covid-19, will probably also be our last trip of the year.  We almost didn't go, as the cases of Covid were just starting to spread in North America at that time, but I did the math and figured we would be almost totally safe still for a one week trip as we were going from a city with no cases to another city with no cases, and that turned out to be true.  The fact that we connected through Toronto was the only worry, but it was early enough in the pandemic (which had not yet been declared) that it wasn't a big concern.  If we had known then just how contagious Covid-19 is, we might not have gone.

But anyway ... that Saturday we took off on our flight to Toronto, and there we transferred onto the plane to take us to the Dallas/Fort Worth airport.  Here are some pictures from that second flight.

We left the land of snow ... this would be suburban Toronto as we took off:

The mouth of the St. Clair River, that is Walpole Island in the foreground:

Passing over Detroit at the other end of Lake St. Clair:

Close-up of downtown Detroit:

Airport in Detroit:

Those aren't clouds in the distance, this is where the "snow line" was on Feb. 29.  To the north the land is snow-covered, and to the south it's bare, with the fields in between covered in a dusting of probably recent snow.  Supposedly we were near Linden, Indiana at this point:

This is probably Lewisville Lake, north of Dallas:

Heading over a warehouse district north of the airport:

I am pretty sure one of these, probably the closer huge one, is an Amazon fulfilment centre according to Google maps:

Highways north of the airport:

So that was our Feb. 29 leap-year flight.  Next up, Fort Worth.