LA from the air

After two and a half tough days it was time to come home. There are no direct flights from San Diego to Europe so a stopover had to be taken somewhere. on this occasion it was LA. Flying over LA has a lot of parallels to flying over Cairo it is a huge metropolis

I had thought it was just a large drainage ditch but it turns out it is the Los Angeles River. Apparently it is dry for an average of 360 days a year. It seems appropriate that the river banks are entirely concrete

The parallels with Cairo disappeared as we flew over this freeway intersection