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The Hepburn wrote:
> 
> 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

that's in Canada not the US, if you want to do that we'll include the
whole of Europe into the discussion.


> 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.
> 
> --
The point was that you can drive a long way in the UK too, your points
don't change that fact.

Vince