[gps-talkusers] Re: interesting directions from google

kevin chao writes:
 > Claude,
 > 
 > There isn't an over land route.
 > 
 > I wonder if anyone has taken the  directions so  literally that they have
 > attempted it.

Well, if they have, they're either so cognitively challenged that they
need 24/7 supervision or they've been living in a cave all their
lives.

Ann P.

 > 
 > Another example of not to always trust the directions that you get--preview
 > the route. This might be why google has their disclaimer about these
 > directions being for planning purposes only and may not be possible.
 > 
 > Kevin
 > 
 > ----- Original Message ----- 
 > From: "Claude Everett" <
 > ceverett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > To: <
 > gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:20 PM
 > Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: interesting directions from google
 > 
 > > You mean there isn't an over land route?
 > >
 > >
 > 
 > ----- Original Message ----- 
 > From: "Ann K. Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:26 AM
 > Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: interesting directions from google
 > 
 > 
 > > Hi Claude,
 > >
 > > Hmmmmm, overland, no, but you might try ice up by the North Pole.  Of
 > > course, you'd have to go in January, what with global warming and
 > > all.  Then, even if you made Scandinavia, you'd still have that sticky
 > > bit of some twenty miles of Channel.  You need one of those cars that
 > > goes on water too.  Sorry, no real overland option.  If you're
 > > planning your jaunt in January, the Channel isn't very friendly then.
 > > Dunnow what to suggest, really I don't.  But perhaps a good geography
 > > course, and then a good class in problem solving?  <grinning>
 > >
 > > You'd be surprised how many people have absolutely no idea in the
 > > world how to get from New York to London except, "On a plane".  If you
 > > ask them what direction to go, they can't tell you.  Hell, I've had
 > > students from Rochester who can't even tell how to get from here to
 > > Binghamton, let alone London, England, or even London Ontario.  Had
 > > one student who actually told me to go west from Rochester NY, to get
 > > to Washington, D.C.  I dunnow what the world's coming to, but it ain't
 > > good, that's for sure.
 > >
 > > Ann P.
 > >
 > >
 > > -- 
 > > Ann K. Parsons
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 > > Not all those who wander are lost."  JRRT
 > >
 > > 
 > 
 > 
 > 

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