If you’ve been reading these blog posts for a while, you know that there are many places, such as Serpent Mound in Ohio, World War II-era bomb targets, or 1930s-era Airway Navigation Beacons and Arrows, that are best viewed from the air!
Serpent Mound from Google Earth
Serpent Mound from the ground. The serpent is over 1300 feet long and is one of the most spectacular places to visit in the country.
Those circular lines are a bomb target from World War II. This one is about 30 miles west of Albuquerque.
This concrete arrow from around 1930 helped airmail pilots navigate across the country. This one is near Rodeo, New Mexico.
To make it easier to find posts in this blog that feature places best viewed from the air, I have added a new topic category to this blog called – From the Air. Just click on that category and you’ll pull up blog posts related to those places.
A place that has not been covered in this blog, and one that is best viewed from the air, is the lower Colorado River valley on the border of California and Arizona. The lower Colorado River valley has the only known collection of Intaglios in the country! Intaglios, oftentimes referred to as Geoglyphs, are etchings carved or scraped into the ground. The most famous intaglios in the world are the Nazca Lines in Peru.
To correct this oversight, my wife Claudia and I drove to Blythe, California with the dogs to start the new year off by checking out the Blythe Intaglios. Blythe is located where Interstate 10 crosses the Colorado River. And the Blythe Intaglios are finest concentration of intaglios in the lower Colorado River valley.
These are two of the intaglios located north of Blythe, California.
