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Day 621: April 20, 2016

Above Pittsburgh

My Southwest Airlines flight from Baltimore to Las Vegas apparently flew directly over the city of Pittsburgh, because I snapped this picture from my window. Downtown Pittsburgh is wedged between the Allegheny and Monogahela Rivers where the come together to form the Ohio River. It can be seen as the triangle shaped bright area. Just across the river to the Northwest is a popular district that includes the stadiums of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team and Pittsburgh Steelers football team. Pittsburgh is a mountainous city, causing many of the circuitous routes of the roads seen here. There is still a great deal of heavy industry, including at the bottom left.

‘Bird on a Plum Branch’ (Edo period). Woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige I ( 1797–1858).