Travel - fast and slow

I'm writing this sitting in a tube at FL380. (Pilot speak for 38,000 feet above sea level at a normal pressure)This is no way to see the world; no way to see America.I'm about an hour and a half from my destination: San Francisco, California. I'm guessing I'm above Wyoming or something.I keep thinking back to the Alaska trip in 2008. It took days to get there, not hours. By flying I'm missing out on all the things down there. All the places... all the people...I'm missing see Devils Tower. I'm missing out seeing the biggest ball of twine. Of the Spam museum.When you only go from place to place with no sense of time and space it's almost like teleporting. Not seeing the scale of this country for what it is.