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I remember this because I remember when some Vermont politicians were trying to get Lake Champlain classified as a Great Lake, because there's some sort of federal waterways fund or something that gives money to states bordering the ocean or a Great Lake.
It was classified as a Great Lake for a little while-- long enough to be the final answer on a friend's college Jeopardy appearance, not long enough to stay the correct answer by the time of broadcast.
Vermont's the one with maple syrup and civil unions, New Hampshire's got libertarians and maple syrup.
Missisissippi's named after the big river, so you just have to figure out what side it's on....
I can never ever get my head around the size of the USA. As far as I'm concerned the 2 coasts are about 10 hours drive apart. Any further than that is, to my mind, Abroad.
Heh. In high school, one year one of my friends was an exchange student from Germany. I mentioned one day at lunch how the summer before, I'd gone on a trip to Wyoming (from Indiana) that involved driving for 36 hours straight. She looked at me, and said "If I drove for 36 hours straight, I'd fall off the continent!"
technically, I suppose if she'd driven toward Russia/Chinawards, she wouldn't have, but still
Jim, I live in Austin, which is Center-East of Texas. Last week, we drove to Big Bend, which is West-South, near Mexico but roughly due West of Austin. All in all, the drive is near eight hours, and we never left Texas.
moonlit, did you see yesterday's Thomas Friedman column? He's got a theory on reordering of the world that he plays from a focus on NATO.
(and I'm loving reading your posts!)
I don't respond to moonlit's postings because they're so comprehensive, but I really enjoy reading them.
And what, she said plaintively, is the meaning of 'diachronic'?
Continuing to mess with Jim's head: To drive from Montauk, New York to Niagara, New York in itself takes ten hours. And that's if you don't hit traffic or stop.
I can never ever get my head around the size of the USA. As far as I'm concerned the 2 coasts are about 10 hours drive apart. Any further than that is, to my mind, Abroad.
Yeah, I had some Dutch guys staying with me once. They had just under a week free before they had to go home, so they planned to rent a Suburban and drive to California and back. Heh.
They still did rent the Suburban, though, and spent every possible minute in it.
Driving from home to my university (which I've never actually done, but I know people who have) is something like 25 hours driving time, not counting rest stops. And that's only like halfway across the country.