Re: Arithmetic Enlightenment

"Robert A. Woodward" <robertaw@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

In article <JIGuxp.FJM@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:

In article <465379F3.8030901@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sea Wasp <seawaspObvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've posted more than once about my Dutch relatives who were coming
to the USA for two weeks. They were going to rent a mobile home and visit:

Us (midstate NY), some other cousins (Washington DC), Disneyland,
Disneyworld, the Grand Canyon, my grandmother in LA, Yellowstone,
Yosemite, and a couple other places.

Oh, ouch. Two *months* wouldn't do that justice. (And they talk
about Americans doing "If this is Tuesday this must be Belgium".)


In 1966, starting from Ohio, we (me, 2 sisters, our parents),
visited the following National parks: Masa Verde, Grand Canyon,
Zion, Bryce, Sequoia, Yosemite, Grand Tetons, and Yellowstone. We
also went to Disneyland and Mt. Rushmore and visited some friends
in Minneapolis. All in one month (there were several 500+ mile
days). We didn't spend very many days at each location, I must
admit.

That's always the question of what constitutes "doing justice". We did
a similar trip and spend about a day at each park - of course we got
only a glimpse of each place. Most large cities have museums where one
could spend days on even one exhibition. But even blowing the six
weeks of vacation a year on only one place at a time will never give
the complete picture. So one has to compromise - even a
Europe-in-Seven-Days trip is perfectly okay, as long as one realizes
that it delivers only an extremely tiny subset of special places.
.

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