I have an aunt who lives North of San Francisco, and a first cousin-- her son-- who works at Activision Blizzard down in Santa Monica. He drove up to stay with her over Thanksgiving. I was thinking, "Oh, must be a short drive, I mean they both live in California after all." So I fired up Flight Simulator 2024, and... wow, what a trip-- and that was through the air! I talked to him on the phone, and it was an eight hour drive via car!

Here is Santa Monica in the air, followed by the Activision Blizzard headquarters, haha:





From there I flew up over and along the mountains, headed North. They become quite arid after a bit:



After what felt like forever I arrived in the San Francisco area. The airport is like half the size of the city, absolutely astonishing:





Continuing North I saw this weird antenna tower, followed by the actual downtown area:





I passed by the Bay Bridge and some weird landmass called "Treasure Island":





Finally, I came to her city, landed at the airport, and parked. California is a cool looking place from the air.