flying over stuff is cool

I got to fly over the north pole last weekend. Straight up through canada and we made a quick left. It was pretty amazing, at one point a few hours into the (16.5 hour) flight, there was the north star next to me, the sun coming up in front and the moon shining over my shoulder. All magestic.

We flew over Siberia which is exactly what you'd imagine it to be - nothing alive over there, mountains of white deadness. And then there was a few hours over dark muddy pollution, AKA China. A low dark cloud going out in all directions.