Re: Foreigner(s)

On 3 Mar 2009 22:20:24 -0800, R H Draney <dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Mark Brader filted:

Tony Cooper:
When one of my nephews and a friend of his from university were
visiting from Denmark, we took them down to Key West for a three-day
weekend. When we were talking about the trip, I mentioned that it was
about a 10 hour drive from Orlando. The boys were excited and wanted
to know how many states we'd pass through.

So they didn't know the state boundaries. Say you start in Alexandria,
VA, and drive north on I-95 for 10 hours, at night when there won't be
traffic delays. According to the driving-time map in my American Map
Road Atlas, by the time the 10 hours are up you'll have passed through
Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire and entered Maine.
(Of course, you'll also have gotten lost around Trenton, NJ, where
the two halves of I-95 don't connect to each other, but never mind that.
Heck, cut across the across the Beltway via 295 and you can throw in
DC without increasing the total distance.)

You can drive clear across Arizona, famously a "big square state", in about five
hours, so even to me ten sounds like it ought to carry you across at least one
state line....r

And then there's Texas. Driving west to east you see a sign as
you enter Texas near El Paso which informs you that it is 658
miles (1050 km) to Fort Worth, which is far from being at the
other end of the state.

For the next 500 miles or so it never tells you again how far to
Fort Worth/Dallas.

The terrain is flat and featureless and never actually goes into
a city but bypasses them.

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