Monday September 10th 1979 flight Reno to Columbus
Leaving Kathy’s at 7:07 20 minutes to airport.
No window seats left at 7:30
Airborne over Reno- United flight 733- 1,469 miles to Chicago. Approach Great Salt Lake Desert 8:40 north of railroad crossing Lake. Ogden, Wasatch mountains. Breakfast over- scrambled eggs, orange juice, biscuits, ham and sausage over Wyoming clouded over. 9:45 pilot says on right side is Mexico and on left is Canada! 10:32 meandering rivers 10:11 over Fort Dodge outside 57 degrees Fahrenheit. Des Moines River meandering- wooded areas but flat. 10:44 starting descent 27,000 ft / Dubuque. Temperature 80 in Chicago Mississippi River huge sprawl behind dam at Clinton, Iowa. Roads running straight north and south with jogs noticeable. Hazy clouds 11:00. I-90 heading south east to Chicago. Plane turns southeast. 11,000 ft to final descent can begin to see color below. Fields green everywhere! But hazy. 11:05 Chicago River suburbs. 11:09 circling Chicago. 11:13 plane wallowing into airport. 11:14 on ground 11:35 in Terminal Gate F9 checked-in seat 12A.
12:27 flight 224 on 727. Moving out from terminal. Reading “The White Album” by Joan Didion in Mainliner Magazine. Chicago skyscrapers barely visible in smog. 12:36 Airborne over railroad railroad yards, freeway, park area more railroad yards plane wallowing. Deep quarry, freeway, another quarry, river and freeway. 12:39 airport, Lake Michigan and Turnpike. South East Freeway cloverleaf’s patterns among houses take up 4 city blocks. Oil tanks along Lake Michigan. 12:42 Farmland among subdivisions. 12:44 small lake turning South East crossing East West Freeway. Crossing Indiana Illinois line 12:50 Coke and peanuts 12:56. Fort Wayne. Picture of Marion area. 1:15 Final Approach Smog on Horizon- Woods- 1:18 landing 4:18 Columbus time. temperature 79.
Mary, Kenny and mother picked me up. Ate at Forum. At Terradise about 7 Howard got up to greet me.