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Wanderlust Sunday: Down With Tunnel-Vision

To me, one of the biggest benefits of travel is that it offers a new perspective. It shines light into that tunnel I spend my regular routine looking through, and even better, creates memories that bore permanent peep-holes in its sides. Down with tunnel-vision! I want to see the biggest picture I can.

So this week's travel column is dedicated to perspective — A reminder that sometimes you have to look at things from a different point of view. This list is of things you have to see from above in order to see or appreciate at all. There are examples like this all over the world. Feel free to add your own perspective — where are things you can only see if you take to the air or higher ground?

Five Things in the U.S. Better Seen From the Air Alpha by State
	FRITZLER CORN MAIZE LaSalle, CO Sure looks like it would be fun to roam around in this, but without some perspective, you'd never know where you were. Every fall the Fritzler Farm creates a new intricate design. But unless viewed from above, they all look the same. Photo: Denver Post
	SPACE SHUTTLE IN FLIGHT Cape Canaveral, FL This photo was posted on a travel blog this week, and I think it's an out-of-this-world example of timing and height. It was snapped by a passenger on a commercial jet over Florida. Can you imagine this view from your plane window? It's the Space Shuttle Endeavor in flight. Photo and Original Story: AAA Travel Views
	ROCK EAGLE Eatonton, GA Just over an hour southeast of Atlanta lies one of the oldest known human artifacts on the continent — A 2,000 year-old stone effigy called Rock Eagle. From the ground, it looks like a plain old pile of rocks. You have to get up high to see what the Native Americans left. Photo: Georgia4H.org
	SPIRAL JETTY Corinne, UT Robert Smithson's monumental earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970) islocated on the north side of Great Salt Lake. Using black basalt rocks andearth from the site, the artist created a coil 1,500 feet long and 15feet wide that stretches out into the water. This is one piece of artwork you have to see from above to fully appreciate. Photo: Witcombe.sbc.edu
	GOOSENECKS STATE PARK Mexican Hat, UT Like any canyon in the American Southwest, the view from any perspective is spectacular. But some are better seen from the air if you want the big picture. Like Utah's Goosenecks State Park — Gotta get up high to see the shape the San Juan River carves through the land and understand why it's so named. Photo: Jitze