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Tips4theTrip: Travelers: Turn head. Look out window. Repeat as needed.

Westbound over Arizona.

Westbound over Arizona.

(Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
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Even if it’s just a Vegas/Phoenix/Sacramento sort of flight — especially if it’s that sort of flight — you really ought to glance out the window once in a while. You won’t always get the reward I got on this flight over Arizona in July 2015, but the sky is still full of surprises.

You can always count on travel to teach you something — but what? Travel is the substitute teacher who didn’t get the lesson plan, the adjunct lecturer who goes off on Pinochet, the grad assistant who trashes your poetry, then hands out red velvet cupcakes. If only you’d had a clue what was coming, right?

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I’m building this gallery of guidance from new and old adventures in the West and the world beyond. The photos are all mine. As for the attempted wisdom, it’s all dead serious, except for that which isn’t.

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