The airport again

See the post and barrier in the left corner? This is how you board planes in Grand Junction. You like up at one of the two doors in the airport terminal, and when the plane's ready they let you walk out to the plane. It's kinda cool. You can actually see the person you're picking up when they get off the plane. The planes almost invariably are commuters like this that go to Salt Lake or Denver, then you catch a bigger plane if you're going any distance. The plane may or may not have a bathroom. We learned to be prepared before take-off! Today I'm seeing Kate off. Her visits are never long enough. It's hard to believe I have only the airport pictures and none of her stay (except for steaming a tapir) and none of her. But I've always had trouble taking pictures of people, and at this point I'm not always carrying the camera.

This view is approximately northish from the north side of Grand Junction. The Bookcliffs are long, long, long. I think they stretch into Utah.

Here we're looking more or less east, so we can see Mt. Garfield, then a valley, then Grand Mesa, "the world's biggest flat-topped mountain." It was created only about 10,000 years ago due to volcanoes, and the flat top is a lava flow. The plane is FedEx. It seems to be there most of the time.