So I told a few people that moving from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Southern California was roughly the same as moving from Ireland to Poland. That tended to elicit a “whoa” or perhaps a low whistle. (Although they might have just been admiring my gams.)
And then I started worrying that I was overselling it a bit, and that I hadn’t traveled nearly that far.
Fortunately, the internets are a wonderful creation (thank you, Al Gore!). It took me all of about a minute and a half to find a distance calculator thingamajiggee that’ll tell you how far it is from X to Y.
Which is how I found out that I may have driven 2599 miles from my house to my office—one hell of a commute—but that it’s a mere 2189 as the crow flies. Damn crows, always taking the direct route. What’s their hurry? It’s a beautiful world. Stop and smell the roses, you nasty bastards.
That distance calculator thingamajiggee is also how I found out that I was way off with my Ireland-to-Poland comparison.
Because Dublin to Warsaw is a piddling 1135 miles. Jeez, Dublin to Moscow is only 1740 miles.
In other words, I’m a long, long, long way from home.
right??!!?!? It's a different country. The light is different. The smells are different. They talk all funnEH.
Posted by: xixi | Thursday, August 17, 2006 at 10:42 PM