Rates of Travel in The 1800's
And you get frustrated because it takes so long to get somewhere or hate standing in line at the airport. Take a look at this map that uses New York as the starting point and continues as you go westward. Using an excerpt from Mother Nature Network, "it took a whole day to barely get outside of the city; two weeks to
reach Georgia or Ohio; and in five weeks, you could just about get to
Illinois and Louisiana."
Can you imagine? Most of you folks would die. I was so frustrated when I left work yesterday and it took me an hour to get home. And this is why I come in early and leave early. While living back in the 1800's would be something I would like to experience for a day, a week, or two; A lifetime would be excruciating. Then again, I'd more than likely be shot, being that I'm Latino and all. LOL.
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- Blade 7184 aka Peter
3 comments:
when my students ask if I want to live in the 1800s, I tell them "no" I'm much too partial to indoor plumbing.
haha, love it. Amen to that.
"Remember the Alamo!!!" Bang! Bang! The last thing my Latino love who hear back then. Poor my love. Then again lord knows I'm probably a descendent of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and yet I look more like Davy Crockett. I'm safe!
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