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I'm directionally challenged. In my head, east=mountains, west=mesa. You could plunk me down anywhere in my hometown and based on orientation to the mountains alone, I could tell what part of town I was in.
Does me a fat lot of good out here.
Love starting the morning with a munged excel file.
I'm directionally challenged. In my head, east=mountains, west=mesa. You could plunk me down anywhere in my hometown and based on orientation to the mountains alone, I could tell what part of town I was in.
Finding downtown was tricky at first after we lost the towers. It was just so automatic to spot them when I got out of an unfamiliar subway station and proceed accordingly.
Whatever, I'm STILL pissed about that when I come out of a downtown subway stop that's not my usual.
I navigate by the mountains, too.
I navigate by the Pacific Ocean.
Ever since I moved to LA, I've always known what direction I was facing by my orientation to the Pacific Ocean.
And it still works here in Michigan.
Which weirds some of my friends right out.
When I'm on the West Coast the ocean feels like its on the wrong side. I realize this sounds insane, but it really really does.
Imagine my disorientation living in Spain with the Atlantic ocean to my left instead of the Pacific. My sense of direction was totally discombobulated for a while.
I know I prefer living near water. I think I could be quite happy living near mountains, without water (such as the Denver area.) I loved living in San Diego because the beach and the mountains were nearly equidistant to most of the 'burbs I lived in. I could have 65-70 and sunny on the beach or 35 and snowy in the mountains, at the same time. Turn left or turn right, nothing more than an hour drive to either.
I never know which direction I am heading. We're not built on a grid, so it does not matter.
Also, I am on a peninsula, and an never anymore than a couple of kilometers from water.
Chicago is a very griddy city, so finding your way around is easy....
Chicago is a very griddy city, so finding your way around is easy....
Miami's the same way. Jacksonville, NSM. And it's so damned sprawly. The only thing that really helps with Jax is to know where you are with respect to the St. John's River.
Fans mob BBC news reporter Steve Parry, thinking he is Michael Phelps. Funniest Olympic moment I've seen so far!