"Stupid or shocking" travel / geography related things you just learned about
Oct 24, 2017, 8:46 am
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When I was at university in central London, anything further out than Zone 2 was considered Narnia. I remember going to a friend's party in Zone 3 and many people were late citing 'I didn't realise you lived in the middle of nowhere!'
I live just outside the M25. Every time I tell Londoners where I live, I'm met with 'Where's that?' or 'Which stop is that?'. I go to Edinburgh and tell people where I live, and they know exactly where that is.
I live just outside the M25. Every time I tell Londoners where I live, I'm met with 'Where's that?' or 'Which stop is that?'. I go to Edinburgh and tell people where I live, and they know exactly where that is.
Oct 24, 2017, 8:57 am
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Talking about surprise distances.... A few years ago I was buying plane tickets for a work trip to Alaska and for a vacation to visit my wife's best friend in Missouri when I got home.
I was really surprised to find out that Springfield, Mo is only 60 miles farther from Portland, OR than Anchorage, AK is.
I was really surprised to find out that Springfield, Mo is only 60 miles farther from Portland, OR than Anchorage, AK is.
Oct 24, 2017, 9:25 am
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Oct 24, 2017, 11:34 pm
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i lived in kansas for several years, often driving between lawrence (KU) and wichita (where my mom lived). some of mom's friends would comment on how nice it must be to drive through the flint hills, and it took me a couple of years to realize that i had. i grew up in albuquerque, so i different expectations of "hills."
Oct 25, 2017, 2:25 pm
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Southern California does not really have "beach weather" during most of of June due to something called June Gloom where you get clouds and fog off the Pacific making daytime high temperatures as low as 60F.
Even during perfectly sunny days, it would rarely go above 72F, which, for someone from Chicago, is not exactly beach weather.
Also, how huge the "LA Area" is. It is almost 120 miles to go from Oxnard to San Bernardino.
Even during perfectly sunny days, it would rarely go above 72F, which, for someone from Chicago, is not exactly beach weather.
Also, how huge the "LA Area" is. It is almost 120 miles to go from Oxnard to San Bernardino.
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Oct 25, 2017, 2:37 pm
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(I'm from Kansas...it's possible I'm alone on that...)
Oct 25, 2017, 3:31 pm
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i lived in kansas for several years, often driving between lawrence (KU) and wichita (where my mom lived). some of mom's friends would comment on how nice it must be to drive through the flint hills, and it took me a couple of years to realize that i had. i grew up in albuquerque, so i different expectations of "hills."
He just laughed and said "No, those are mountains!"
Oct 25, 2017, 6:54 pm
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Southern California does not really have "beach weather" during most of of June due to something called June Gloom where you get clouds and fog off the Pacific making daytime high temperatures as low as 60F.
Even during perfectly sunny days, it would rarely go above 72F, which, for someone from Chicago, is not exactly beach weather.
Also, how huge the "LA Area" is. It is almost 120 miles to go from Oxnard to San Bernardino.
Even during perfectly sunny days, it would rarely go above 72F, which, for someone from Chicago, is not exactly beach weather.
Also, how huge the "LA Area" is. It is almost 120 miles to go from Oxnard to San Bernardino.
As for LA, the city of LA is 500 sq miles, the STATE of Rhode Island is only a little more than double that at 1200sq miles. Yet anyone from the LA metro area comes from LA. Ask someone from Woonsocket if the come from Providence, you will get an emphatic no. Same with Cambridge and Boston. Scale simply operates different here.
Oct 25, 2017, 7:01 pm
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that we couldn’t just get together during their trip to Disneyworld because it’s a six hour drive one way from our house to Orlando. (Ten of those six hours are the stretch between Tallahassee and the I-75 interchange at Lake City since rural I-10 makes a case for being the most boring interstate in America and alll)
Oct 26, 2017, 7:35 am
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Oct 26, 2017, 7:53 am
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Mickey's the black sheep of the family who moved away and went Hollywood- the rumors they've had to suppress over the years and all.
And back on topic- The closest major city to the western Florida panhandle (Pensacola to Destin) is New Orleans
And back on topic- The closest major city to the western Florida panhandle (Pensacola to Destin) is New Orleans
Oct 27, 2017, 2:15 am
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The geographically-ignorant security contractors used by DL at AMS couldn’t figure out why for a third of the people resident in Sweden CPH is their first or second most frequently used airport for international flights. “Dude, the countries are separated by a bridge crossing that takes less than 15 minutes by commuter rail. Go figure.”
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