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Article #1804Re: Daily gripe: all the traffic is in the left lane
From: Marc
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:00
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alanh@galaxy.nsc.com (The Hepburn) said: >In article <5jmo7s$fs5@s-cwis.unomaha.edu>, jquick@s-cwis.unomaha.edu (QUICK JASON STEWART) writes: >> Well, true, but you'd get quit dizzy driving round and round the island. :) >> The US isn't 5000 miles from one end to another (more like 3000), but it >> wouldn't take too long to accumulate that sort of mileage. Traveling >> from one coast to another, then up/down the coast would get you >> pretty close to 5000 miles (say, on a route from Seattle-Miami-Boston). >Actually, there are several ways to get a 5000 mile one-way trip over here; >how about Anchorage, Alaska to Key West, Florida? How about Victoria, BC >to St. John's, Nfld? Or Fairbanks, Alaska to Miami, Florida? As you can see >if you look at a map, from Fairbanks or Ancharoage to just about anywhere >on the East coast will be a lot of miles, and coast-to-coast in Canada is >a long drive also. My 5000+ mile trip is D.C. to Anchorage, with some stops in the midwest, two weeks 'till I leave, two more 'till I get back... Marc For email, remove second "y" from Gumbyy@tamu.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10001a,581725c8aaee3c36 X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,581725c8aaee3c36 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,eb419c88c79ae9ef X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public From: Gumbyy@tamu.edu (Marc) Subject: Re: Daily gripe: all the traffic is in the left lane Date: 1997/04/24 Message-ID: <335f9776.10567289@news.tamu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 237079641 References: <5jmo7s$fs5@s-cwis.unomaha.edu> <E95I24.3Bq@berlioz.nsc.com> Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Apr 1997 17:28:39 GMT Newsgroups: dc.driving,ca.driving,rec.autos.driving