'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
But it's an 18-hour drive if I wanted to go see my family in Boston
18 hours can get you from one end of California to the other. With no traffic. Which never really happens in California. I don't miss that at all.
I am afeared to even Google map what it takes to get across Texas. I recall it taking about 8 years. But I was young and supremely bored, so...
I realize that the Western states are craxy large though in some cases.
I sent a message to Brenda's sister on FB. At least I hope that was Brenda's sister.
The west coast is only three states! The east coast is like 75, 100 states!
java, it's only six hours between where we were and where we are now.
New England is crazy small and squished, I agree, but the lower Northeast, not so much.
While most of the weather wouldn't suit me, I bet I'd love the scale of New England. For the same reasons I love the scale of Northern Europe (I haven't been to Southern Europe or Eastern Europe so I cannot speak of those). I like that there are dense, walkable cities, towns and villages and then BAM you're in the country. Having grown up in LA with its endless sprawl, it's so refreshing. I wish we could go through the West and redevelop things in a pre-WWII pattern of non-sprawl.
Google Maps says San Diego to Portland is 18 hours. And of course, there's never ever any traffic on I-95 on the East Coast, no sirree.
Yay, house w/ internet and TV!
Houston to Las Cruces is only 12.5 hours. Boring hours, no doubt, and I am sure long stretches of no traffic at all.
The west coast is only three states! The east coast is like 75, 100 states!
See now? That's what ahm talkin' bout.
I like that there are dense, walkable cities, towns and villages and then BAM you're in the country.
That's a lot of what I like about Portland. At least bits that *feel* like country to me.
Google Maps says San Diego to Portland is 18 hours.
You know, that sounds about right distance-wise. I was just trying to think of just California so I was thinking San Diego to Crescent City, but that isn't one freeway straight up like San Diego to Portland (and Seattle). That I5, man.