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Some random, end of the week humor:
For anyone wishing to visit Matthew, Black Angus, or Michael, here are directions between Sydney and LA. Pay close attention to #6.
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What amazes me is how quickly Google thinks step six can be accomplished.
As a Seattlelite, and someone who kayaks, it is hilarious. I know where they would “set in” at Seattle. But I really don’t understand why they don’t just kayak into California (unless it has something to do with border crossings). I would be very impressed if someone could actually do this.
I googled solo Pacific crossings and discovered that there is actually a chap who’s been trying to do it, not in a kayak but a rowboat. He’s based in Seattle. The first time he started out from Seattle, but couldn’t get past the equator due to currents and winds. His blog has him at the Phillipines about now, so he must have made it across somehow. His name is Erden Eruc and the expedition goes by the name Around-n-Over.
Nice directions!
But to come and see me you’d need to go further South across Bass Strait (a trecherous body of water that claims many lives) then up the Tamar River to Launceston, turn right onto the South Esk and I could meet you at the junction of the South Esk and the Maquarie River. That’s in my town of Longford.
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=longford+tasmania&ie=UTF8&ll=-41.592337,147.12204&spn=0.257281,0.42572&t=h&z=11&iwloc=addr
Nice avatar upgrades by the way, Red Rocker.
What a riot. Nice to know that google has a sense of humor, but no common sense. It’s expensive, but I think I’d opt for a flight–they do have them between Australia and Seattle now days.
Oh, sorry for the double post, but as long as you are headed south on I-5, you can give me a call and I’ll meet you for tea or a mocha at the Barnes and Noble Cafe in Federal Way.
Pat
Kayaking across the Pacific Ocean is a breeze compared to steps #3 & 5. There’s a herd of feral wombats on Phillip St you don’t want to cross, and the bunyip that lives near where you’d put your kayak in at the end of Macquarie St will eat you for breakfast.
Besides, I’d rather make the return trip. Just mark time in your kayak off Seattle and let the world rotate beneath you.
And if you click on Korg’s link to the map of Longford you’ll see a photo of the bridge he lives under.
And if you ever wanted to know how long it takes to get from here to there, it’s 7 hours 46 mins
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=H%C3%A9r%C3%A9,+Duingt,+Haute-Savoie,+Rh%C3%B4ne-Alpes,+France&daddr=there&sll=30.145127,177.1875&sspn=160.01052,360&ie=UTF8&ll=46.392411,1.329346&spn=3.189923,6.61377&z=7
Go south from Matthew’s place and the next land you hit is Antarctica.
I’ve heard that nowadays it takes longer to get there from here because of the congestion at Lyon.
I’m from Eastern Kentucky — and we think we live out in the boonies…sheesh.
Where I’m from, we have innertubes instead of kayaks. Most of us think a kayak is some kind of animal from Africa!
I’m having fun with the upgrades. My only beef is that the changes are retroactive. Past avatars disappear as if they never were. It’s as if history is constantly being re-written, or written over, by the present. I feel like I exist only in the present, and have no past. It’s existentially unsettling.