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Re: Geography (was: We'll take in your poor....)
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Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:28:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Thomas Stangl wrote:
> 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.
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> The sheer size of individual states just doesn't sink in to some Europeans that
> scoff at *our* lack of geography background.
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> Purple Dave wrote:
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> > 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.
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> --
> 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 trees in the former
Soviet Union. It took a bunch of connecting flights to get to Moscow, at which
time he boards another jet, flies 7 hours east, and lands in the same country on
the same land mass. (So no talking about Hawaii ;) )
Yeah, that's big.
I don't think either Canada or the US could compete with that.
The guy had a great time--21 days camping in the largest forest in the world.
What was the stat again--1 forest wider than the continental US? My memory may
be faulty on that part of the story... but yeah, that's big.
Dave K
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