could look down over Illinois
and find you there
Tom Waits - Shore Leave
My upcoming move to Boston made me go back and look at the geography of it all. As the crow flies, I'm moving 2,288 miles / 3,683 km. (Google Earth is great for measuring distances.) To put that in perspective - here are some other places that are closer to each other:
- Scottsdale, Arizona - Tegucigalpa, Honduras (3,296 km)
- Stockholm, Sweden - Casablanca, Morocco (3,425 km)
- Stockholm, Sweden - Tehran, Iran (3,556 km)
- London, UK - Istanbul, Turkey (2,503 km)
- Freetown, Sierra Leone - Recife, Brazil (3,018 km)
Finally, for the last two years I've met up with a group of Swedes in San Francisco who have been coming over for the Oracle Open World conference. I don't attend the conference but enjoy meeting with them socially so I've been flying up there for a weekend each year, and we talked about doing it again next year. So, Boston - San Francisco: 4,338 km (2,695 miles). Let's compare:
- Stockholm, Sweden - China-Kazakhstan border (4,337 km)
- Stockholm, Sweden - Medina, Saudi Arabia (4,221 km)
- Göteborg, Sweden - St. John's, Canada (4,334 km)
- London, UK - Baghdad, Iraq (4,094 km)
Making any of these trips to meet up with friends for a weekend seems unthinkable, but I'm still thinking about making the trip to San Francisco next October. So what did I learn from all this? Not much, it seems...
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