I believe the addition of Alaska added 30% to the land mass of the USA. Eric
> On 08/31/2025 10:34 AM EDT srbrown via Mifnet <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> wrote: > > > On another forum an Alaskan resident bragged to a Texan that if you cut > Alaska in half it would still be the USA's largest state. By some margin too. > > Simon > (Never more than 70 miles from the sea in his home country). > > -------- Original message -------- > From: "Karl L. Swartz via Mifnet" <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> > Date: 31/08/2025 01:54 (GMT+00:00) > To: Mifnet <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> > Cc: "Karl L. Swartz" <k...@kls2.com> > Subject: [Mifnet 🛰 73916] Re: NNN Travel Can Be Challenging > > Yes, that’s another good one. > > Yet another is that Alaska is the most northern, most western, and most > eastern state! (Hawaii is of course most southern.) > > -- Karl > > > > On Aug 30, 2025, at 5:39 PM, Viggo Butler via Mifnet > > <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com mailto:mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> wrote: > > > > A map trivia is that Reno is west of Los Angeles. > > > > Viggo Butler > > Sent from my iPad > > > > > > > On Aug 30, 2025, at 5:33 PM, Karl L. Swartz via Mifnet > > > <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com mailto:mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Texas is big but by some measures California is even bigger. This was the > > > subject of a Featured Map a few years ago: > > > > > > http://www.gcmap.com/featured/20180815 > > > > > > How do the horrors of driving in Houston compare to those of driving in > > > Los Angeles? I was surprised that Houston encompasses about 36% more land > > > area than Los Angeles, though the LA metro sprawl is larger. Even San > > > Antonio is bigger than LA, another surprise. > > > > > > -- Kal > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 30, 2025, at 10:27 AM, Dan Reed via Mifnet > > > > <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com mailto:mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Not a real sign (at least I don’t think it is), but the sign’s got it > > > > about right…. assuming this sign is at/near the Texas/Louisiana border > > > > near Shreveport. > > > > > > > > People think I’m joking when I tell them that the halfway point between > > > > my home in Fort Worth and San Diego is El Paso (which is STILL in > > > > Texas, but a very HARD 13 hour drive… btw… it’s almost as far from my > > > > house to Harlingen down at the southern tip of the state)). But I’m > > > > not. The scale of Texas is just hard for people who’ve never lived here > > > > to wrap their heads around. And while the time from the TX/LA border > > > > to Houston is really only about 5 hours or so, if you’re driving that > > > > way you really should “forget about it” ‘cause the traffic and the > > > > scale of the extraordinarily crowded superfreeways in the Houston area > > > > are, shall we say, “discouraging” to the Nth degree. This scale is > > > > what made it possible for a little 3-plane intra-state airline called > > > > Southwest to survive when it started up 51 years or so ago. If you’re a > > > > business person on a tight schedule and a tight budget driving between > > > > Texas cities can be a real time eater, a personal life-disrupter, and > > > > expensive if you’ve gotta get a hotel overnight just to attend a > > > > 90-minute business meeting. > > > > > > > > (Yes, the scale of Alaska is way, way bigger still… but so few people > > > > live up there, and there simply are no cross-state highways there, so > > > > nobody ever thinks about how long the theoretical driving distances up > > > > there would be). > > > > > > > > Dan Reed > > > > Transplanted Texan > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Revised: 20250507 > > > > > > You are receiving The Mifnet because you requested to join this list. > > > > > > The Mifnet is largely a labor of love, however the infrastructure isn't > > > exactly cost-free. 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