Finally...! The getting of the ticket was perhaps an omen. For one thing, the layover went from several hours in Phoenix to about an hour in Dallas/Fort Worth. The flight wasn't unpleasant: while I had been assigned the center seat, the window seat guy didn't mind in the least switching, so I got the window after all, looking out the east side of the southeast-bound flight. Very cloudy skies all down through California, though I think I got a glimpse of Shasta Lake--extremely low!--and Mount... Sign in to see full entry.