How far to you need to go ...

[kinzel]

How far do you need to go to drive into another country?

I can go northwest for 67 miles ... and be in Canada.

I can go north 110 miles and cross the border into Canada.

Or I can go due East and get to ... Canada ... in around 147 miles.

It takes me 104 miles driving West to reach the US, in the form of New Hampshire.


Meanwhile, the maple on the corner of the property is now about 7 feet tall. This is the one that was run over many times by the Department (of the Interior?) of Environmental Protection while they were cleaning the gas out of our subsurface. Go, tree!

On the flower note ... progress. We have as many as seventy day lily blossoms this year...and given my lack of seasonal travel plans, I may not miss any of them.

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[patknuth.livejournal.com]

From Heidelberg, it's about an hour to France. It's about 3 hours (depending on the traffic jams) to Switzerland. I think it's about 3.5 hours to Belgium. All of those times assume driving like a German, and not like this small town American who thinks that driving 55 mph behind the trucks and then having to speed up to 75 mph or greater to get around them without being run down by the "low-flying" cars, is just too stressful to manage.

It was about 9 hours to drive from Heidelberg, through Switzerland, into Italy near Milano and across to Vicenza. And then another hour or less to Venice the next day when I went with a friend (and she drives like a German) in March. I know that's not quite what was asked, but I couldn't resist sharing.

However, when I move back to Kansas, it's 748 miles to Pembina North Dakota (closest town I could see to the Canadian border) from Leavenworth. And it's 969 miles to Laredo, Texas, which I think might be my closest route to Mexico.

I had multiple varieties of daylillies planted at the house in Kansas. I'm anxious to get back and see how they did or didn't thrive while I was away for three years. I have confirmation dates for the moving companies, so I expect to be back in Kansas by the middle of September!

[otaku-tetsuko.livejournal.com]

Any chance of a pause in Philly area on your way home, or are you booked direct?

[patknuth.livejournal.com]

Not this time. I'm breaking in DC to spend the night with a friend there. When I moved to Germany, I flew through Philly, but that was before I knew you :-)