Originally Posted by saxman66

So I'm a pilot, and it still throws me off when going LAX to SFO and we are generally heading more west than north. When landing on the 28's in SFO, I still feel like we're heading north over the bay instead of more west. Luckily, I pay attention to the instruments. Anywhere else, and my sense of direction is on point.

Los Angeles, being on the Pacific is east of six state capitols; Sacramento, Carson City, Salem, Olympia, Juneau, and Honolulu.

Since I'm use to the large driving distances in North American, I sometimes get the opposite effect when I'm in Europe. I was going to meet my friend in Salzburg, Austria and kept researching ways to fly to Vienna. I had to look at the map and realized Salzburg is a very quick train ride from Munich rather than Vienna. I was also thinking of day trips and I keep forgetting that several countries are only a couple of hours away and I can easily get there. I have to tell my mind that I'm not in Texas and going on a quick hop is no big deal.

One day, I would like to road trip across US-50. It goes from Maryland to San Fransisco. I don't know why, but it appeals to me to take a mostly 2 lane road across the country.