mero_sabra
15-Apr-2007, 07:26 AM
Size
It is difficult to really experience "feel" the size of the United States ,even when you know the actual number of miles from coast to coast . To get the full impact you should relize , for example ,that it takes forty-eight hours (two entire days and two long nights) to travel by trains from Chicago to Los Angeles , rolling along hour after hour across wheat fields, mountains and deserts ;Chicago is an overnight train trip from New York
Another way to think about it is to compare distances in the United states with other more familiar to you . for example , New York to Washington ,is about the same as London to paris or tokyo to kyoto ; New York to Los Angeles is farther than Lisbon to Cairo or Mosco to Montreal or New Delhi to Rome
It is difficult to really experience "feel" the size of the United States ,even when you know the actual number of miles from coast to coast . To get the full impact you should relize , for example ,that it takes forty-eight hours (two entire days and two long nights) to travel by trains from Chicago to Los Angeles , rolling along hour after hour across wheat fields, mountains and deserts ;Chicago is an overnight train trip from New York
Another way to think about it is to compare distances in the United states with other more familiar to you . for example , New York to Washington ,is about the same as London to paris or tokyo to kyoto ; New York to Los Angeles is farther than Lisbon to Cairo or Mosco to Montreal or New Delhi to Rome