Once on the glideway, with little to worry about beyond punching in the correct coordinates that would switch them through to the north-south system at the right moment, though, it was pleasant to relax and watch the entire metropolitan area of the Cascadia Corridor spread out on either side of them as far as the eye could see. “This is a very large center of population,” Jon observed, surprising her. She’d been thinking he might find her world provincial, if not primitive. “It is a series of three city sectors,” she said. “They extend from Sector Vancouver at the northern end, through Sector Seattle in the center, and terminate at Sector Portland in the south. Once, it was possible to determine where one left off and the other began, but not for many years. Now, the entire region is called the Cascadia Corridor. There are many such population corridors in North America. This is the westernmost one, and one of the smallest.” He looked worried. “Are there no open spaces beyond what I see below?”
