I snapped these shots through the window near the rear lavatory while stretching my legs during my flight from San Francisco to Beijing. When I got back to my seat, the on-board monitor indicated we were flying over Mongolia at the time, but we were just south of the border with Siberia (eastern Russia), so this landscape actually could have been in either one. Nonetheless, up until this moment this was a region of the world I was eager to visit, but, well ummm…that may have to wait until at least summer time. I always thought being stranded at sea would be the worst way to die, but now I’m not so sure.