From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2005 - 07:41:59 PST
Ryan,
I had the same problem in college explaining to
exchange students that Walt Disney World for the
weekend was out of the question.(we were located in
NJ)
Rick
--- Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 6:19 AM -0800 1/19/05, mark witham wrote:
> >
> >Like all things in Texas, everything is a long way
> >apart but its pretty easy to get around.
>
> Just down the road a bit...means a lot more in
> Texas.
>
> For folks in the Eastern US, Texas (and most of the
> middle states)
> are just big and wide. For someone from Europe, I
> suspect it's
> mindboggling. I had to sit down and explain to a
> woman who was
> marrying a friend how big the US really was with a
> map and table of
> distances. She was Dutch Irish and hadn't really
> traveled the US yet.
> The fact that the drive time from Atlanta to Miami
> was the same as
> from Atlanta to DC surprised her. The time it took
> to get driving non
> stop to Washington State was even more surprising
> for her.
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