A part of Rio with the Guanabara Bay and Sugar Loaf Mountain in the background.

Jim's plane looks like this one that we've flown on a few times on the way to Maine. On one flight I volunteered to sit in the co-pilot seat, because I thought there would be more leg room. There was, but there were pedals down there that if you hit them with your foot, the plane would do ... something. Probably something not-good. Here's what the landing looks like from the co-pilot's seat.

ha! My brain short-cutted through some letters and first read jim's description as manzanita trees, and I thought. "No they aren't." Love the twisting growth.

I think that is the "South Creek Trestle" in Oscar Scherer State Park along the Legacy Trail When I was first on the trail in 2008 it ended before reaching Venice I guess they felt this bridge over Roberts Bay wasn't suitable for cycling. The next time I was there cycling there was a new expensive looking bridge crossing the waterway leading to Venice.