Google Earth Is Fun

I’ve been playing with distances between family hotspots* and prospective states we could ultimately move to, starting with Indiana, which is near multiple people we’d be happy to be near.  I always forget just how close that part of the country is to the east coast.  It’s less than half the distance from here to there than from Fresno or Beaverton to there.

Houston comes close to being equal between here and Fresno, which is why we’ve joked about Texas it for a long time.  I’d be near a cousin, which would give some people added incentive to make the trip.  Then again, I’d be relatively near a cousin if I were in or close enough to northern California, and the same thing would apply.  As it would even more for being near my brother.  Or sufficiently in or near or on the way to Florida.  Heck, there’s even a cousin in Missouri.  Georgia.  I think still in Minnesota.  In Arizona, but I don’t think they’d want to see most of us, but there’s step-family there too.

You just have to dismiss some factors as too unimportant or inescapable.

Idaho would be the opposite.  It’s relatively close to the west cost family, but particularly far and inconvenient for the east coast.  They’d have to watch me be old and fat and unable ever to get a job again for the rest of my life as a result from farther away.

What’s funny is the perceptual thing.  To me, Indiana is half the country away, and California is the other half.  I know that’s not so, intellectually, but there’s the mental image kind of thing at play.

It’s fun having such a handy tool for getting an idea of driving distances.  Gotta love the intarwebs.

* Whoever wrote the spell checking dictionary for Firefox must despise the German language.  The rule seems to be that if it’s a compound word, it’s not in the dictionary.  I know I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s so striking and persistent.

1. You would love Texas, if I remember anything about the two of your political leanings…

   Hey, this is where Ron Paul is from.  And Yes, a lot of Republicans did spend hours in line with the Democrats just to keep Hillary in… What a sacrifice for our country!

   Posted by  on  03/06  at  03:08 PM  from  Houston

2. Idaho’s awesome. Definitely hard to find a job here.

   Posted by sarahk  on  03/08  at  01:45 PM  from  Idaho
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