Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:31:56 -0400
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Google directions....
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Google maps has some pretty interesting directions at times.  I asked
it for a cheap route to Buckingham Palace, London, from Maryland, and
got directions.  They are cheap, but step #24 is a bitch...

19.
Take the exit onto I-90 E/Mass Pike/Massachusetts Turnpike toward
N.H.-Maine/Boston
Partial toll road
56.0 mi
56 mins
...
20.
Take exit 24 A-B-C on the left toward I-93 N/Concord NH/S
Station/I-93 S/Quincy 0.4 mi
1 min
21.
Merge onto Atlantic Ave 0.8 mi
3 mins
22.
Turn right at Central St 0.1 mi
23.
Turn right at Long Wharf 0.1 mi
24.
Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi
29 days 0 hours
...
25.
Slight right at E05 0.5 mi
2 mins
26.
At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto E05/Pont Vauban 0.1 mi
27.
Turn right at E05 5.7 mi
10 mins
28.
Take the exit onto A29/E44 toward Amiens
Toll road

Even more amazing than their having directions at all is that they
think I can swim at almost 5 miles per hour for 29 days straight, 24
hours a day, without slowing at all.  I'm not sure a dolphin could
manage that.

I also got routed through France...I guess there aren't any good
roads from Plymouth to London.  Or maybe Google is run by
cheese-eating surrender monkeys?

-- Mike B.

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