Quote:
Originally Posted by honeychile
My DH & I were headed for a convention in Boston, and decided to spend a few days in Rhode Island first. He had spent several summers there as a child, and I had spent more than a couple genealogical trips there (my gggrandparents got married at Fort Adams). We wanted to see so many places.
I asked him where he wanted to stay, and he said, "the whole state's less than 40 miles across, so we can stay just about anywhere." For some reason, I still find that terribly amusing.
|
It's so funny! And yet when I have to go more than 15 minutes anywhere I freak out about how far it is. I have such a small-state mentality. I would be incredibly happy if every state were Rhode Island-sized (even though there'd be two thousand of them)!
Quote:
Originally Posted by sigmagirl2000
As an undergrad, when we were bored, we would roll two dice and see how many states we could hit in that # of hours that we rolled. I think within 8 hours we hit MA (started and ended), NH, ME, VT, NY, NJ, PA, CT, RI, and back to MA.
|
I tell people I've been to 27 states and their eyes bug out a little bit, then I remind them that you can do what you just described and blow through almost ten and they calm down a little bit.