Lemming: Home to Home

[azurelunatic]

Instructions (edited for clarity and readability):

1. Go to http://www.mapquest.com/directions (or a mapping site of your choice)
2. Enter your current address and the address of your childhood home (or at least the town if you don't remember the exact address)
3. Share distance and driving time. (In cases where different continents are involved, try checking airline miles and travel time.)
4. Discuss.

Fairbanks to Phoenix:
Total Est. Time: 77 hours, 48 minutes
Total Est. Distance: 3613.71 miles

I've never driven it. I might like to, some day. I got the directions not door to door, but town-to-town, as I wanted to share the enormity of the trip with the friends list. Aunt-Fayoumis likes watching the climate change while we drive. I'd like to drive it with her, Guide Dog Aunt, swallowtayle, and V from my writing group someday. That would be excellently fun, provided that V and my aunts got along, which I trust they would.

Comments

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

I keep looking at this...but can't figure out WHICH childhood home to use. Makes me wonder if I'm that unusual, in that I had 9 places I lived, and my parents bought 3 different houses.

[azurelunatic]

All 3 childhood houses, then?

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

That struck me as a bit geeky...but then i realized who I was and am gonna go for it :-)

Does make me wonder how unusual I am, that we moved that often.

[azurelunatic]

I'm actually a bit of an oddity, being as I grew up at the same address throughout childhood.

I think, actually, it's a thing that depends on the context. City kids, and kids with military families, are going to move a lot. Kids with Ancestral Homesteads aren't likely to move much at all.

[snowelf.livejournal.com]

Since I have lived in the same place since I was five, I don't need Mapquest to do that... (well, I did move up one floor when I was sixteen, but it takes less than a minute to go downstairs)

[azurelunatic]

I think you win for shortest travel time.

I think people like Clay (Canada to Japan) are going to win for longest.

[snowelf.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yup. That is a huge distance. How did a Canadian end up in Japan, BTW? (I always wanted to go to Japan myself)

[azurelunatic]

I'm not entirely sure, but he seems to be having fun there.

[snowelf.livejournal.com]

*nearly passes out with envy*