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From: "Malcolm Smith"
Subject: RE: Local Gas Prices
I find that Europeans and people from the UK who have not
been here generally just don't understand this about the USA.
Things are far apart here, and for the most part we don't
have transportation alternatives.
You're right on the whole. I've had maps out in the past to point this out
to some folk (making the point about the map showing the same scale for
each
country) who wanted to make a motoring tour of the USA in a short
break....I
now nod and agree, it's much simpler and let them find out on arrival.
A friend of ours had a fellow from England over for a visit. He decided he
wanted to see a bit of the countryside, so we took a short drive in the
country, perhaps 4 hours at highway speeds (100kph). When we got home, he
wanted to see how much of Canada we had traversed, and was rather shocked at
how little he had seen when I showed him on a map where we had gone.
William Robb
