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Re: Geography (was: We'll take in your poor....)
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Sun, 11 Jul 2004 03:38:00 GMT
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Yes, I get tired of the "clueless American" geography issue, when I find so many
non-US citizens are surprised to find out that I can drive for over 600 miles on
relatively straight interstates without touching reaching the far end of the state I
live in. The last state I lived in also was well over 600 miles long.
The sheer size of individual states just doesn't sink in to some Europeans that
scoff at *our* lack of geography background.
Purple Dave wrote:
> I think my favorite real-world example is a story a friend of
> mine told me, where they were visited in Michigan by German relatives who
> thought it'd make a good day-trip to visit the Grand Canyon.
--
Tom Stangl
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| (...) Takes me 20 hours(ish) of straight driving to get from my place in Ontario to the next province--Manitoba Though I'd say the best story about size and geography--a friends father tagged along with a university undergrad study course to look at (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) It's also not spelled with a lower-case "s", but that's beside the point. (...) I've often wondered about this sort of thing. Admittedly, I have it easier than most US citizens, having lived my entire life on the longest lakeshore in the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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