One thing about my hometown from taking flying lessons as a kid is I have a very firm impression of how in the middle of farmland it was
Whereas before I did not! Like, there was town, and other towns, and I guess a few halfassed one-church-a-store-and-a-bar village remnants each outlying, and the roads between them, but by my time all the roads had accumulated like at least one building of development deep along them, such that you could travel all over a large chunk of territory and always be directly adjacent to some sort of human settlement, and it was only from the air you realized what narrow filaments these roads were through field tracts.
Of course more and more of those fields have been becoming subdivisions for a while now
Notice how the borders of a lot of coastal states reach just far enough to take in some of the Mississippi watershed. Like the way Israel has a pretty empty and pointless desert south on the way down to a Gulf of Aqaba port, that’s not an accident
The valley was substantially initially settled by Mormons, rare arable land out west to feed Deseret. That’s where the potatos come from. The heavily forested northern panhandle is where the backwoodsy weirdos are.
They mean the Swedish airline not the British special forces-pioneering Special Air Service, though it is pretty well arranged in terms of where you can deploy to in range of where
Makes Madeira and the Azores as stepping stones to the Americas more intuitive, too
They mean the Swedish airline not the British special forces-pioneering Special Air Service, though it is pretty well arranged in terms of where you can deploy to in range of where
If you’ve ever taken a road trip through the pacific northwest, you’ve probably seen a bumper sticker for a place called “Gravity Falls.” It’s not on any maps, and most people have never heard of it, some people think it’s a myth. But if you’re curious, don’t wait. Take a trip. Find it. It’s out there somewhere in the woods. Waiting.
HAPPY10thANNIVERSARYGRAVITYFALLS! first episode date: June 15th, 2012
That map of Oregon with those locations marked is basically the most chaotic you can get while remaining 100% accurate
A lot of the early border disputes with American states was that colonial grants had been given, basically, as a certain slice of coastline “and inland”
Well from what I hear about Israel I can picture MDMA being big enough in the eastern Mediterranean to account for Turkey and Tunisia, but what’s up with Hungary and Lithuania?