January 31, 2012: Downtown Phoenix is pictured minutes after takeoff from Sky Harbor International Airport. PHX was the layover for a Southwest Airlines flight from Omaha to Austin. To date, it’s the last time I was in Arizona, but it only sort of counts.
It’s possible that Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is the airport that I’ve been to the most. I have flown to Phoenix from three different Iowa airports and through Phoenix from two more non-Iowa airports. Phoenix was the destination of my first airplane trip, when I was 10 months old.
Yes, I am extremely aware that blog posts have been minimal so far in 2025. Unfortunately, my job requires me to pay attention to the news, and that portion of my life is like this, without finding the marble first.