On September 19th, 2011, AMBER AIRPLANE SUNSET…

  travel

amber sunset landing in Detroit

…was what we were treated to as we descended from the boring grey top landscape of clouds, into a thin sandwich of ethereal clouds full of a glowing tint from a sun just about to vanish, that for a moment cast a warm spell over the interior of the plane (and probably making everyone who wasn’t sitting on the westward windows a bit envious) just before landing into Detroit, making my way from Amsterdam to Philadelphia.