[lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard

[Alan Rudy]

When I moved from the BosWash megalopolis, where a two hour drive is (often)
considered a long way because it takes you to such a radically different
place, to California, where it takes most folks more than three hours to get
even close to leaving the state and their identity includes an association
with the beach, different cities and valleys up and down the state and the
coastal and eastern mountains, the meaning of distance shifts rather
radically.  Moving to the midwest, despite distances more like the west, the
meaning of distance in more like the east... folks here don't get around...
Michiganders summer, on lakes, here and imagine that 70 degrees is warm and
good enough to swim in... really!? oy...
Surely, Chris, you know that 8 hours in a car in Europe is forever...
-A

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Alan P. Rudy
Visiting Associate Professor
Dept. Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
Central Michigan University
124 Anspach Hall
Mt Pleasant, MI 48858
517-881-6319

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> "Outside of the country."
>
> My relatives in Germany have never been to Paris, which is eight hours away
> by car. Amazing.
>
>
> --- On Sat, 7/18/09, Percival Myers <permaceaem at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What does "travel widely" mean? Serious question, because:
> > from many
> > places in western Europe it is possible to travel 50 miles
> > from home,
> > see two or more countries, and be considered as a person
> > who has
> > traveled; the number of Americans who've never traveled
> > more than 50
> > miles from home is diminishingly small.
> >
> > Percy
>
>
>
>
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