America – from the Air…
Baseball fields – and lots of them
Straight lines – fields, streets, to the point where wonky lines look odd (and you can easily spot rivers!)
Urban developments that look like the house grew in the middle of a field (sometimes combined with wonky lines)
It’s all so different. There is so much space. It’s not like home where we are all trying to cram in a finite amount of space. Although it’s not limitless, it is vast enough that new developments are not quite as bad
And those long straight lines that I would love to drive a fast car on!
The above were my initial thoughts on the flight over the US for the first time, over two months ago. On the way back the same things came to mind.
America is, for the most part, purpose built for the modern world, and modern transport. The roads are wide and straight, suited to cars and trucks not horse and cart as a lot of the UK roads are. Fields are divided in straight lines, there aren’t really hedges to act as boundaries, and the fields are big. Huge in fact. And in Illinois, with corn growing in them, they seem to go for miles in both width, length, and also in height.
Its actually quite neat. I liked it. It made sense and fitted into my sense of order in the Universe.
That’ll do for now I think!