Den 29. apr. 2006 kl. 14.30 skrev William Robb:
----- Original Message ----- 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.
We have the same problem here. Because of the landscape it takes
several days to drive from Oslo to the far north. Actually it´s
about the same distance as from Oslo to Rome, but on much worse roads.
DagT
