How far I've come
1. Go To Mapquest.com
2. Click on Directions
3. Enter your Current Address and the Address of your Childhood Home (or at least the town if you don't remember the exact address)
4. Put the time and distance in a post like this.
5. Don't forget to repost these directions. (Not the door to door ones)
29 Palms/Palm Springs, CA to Alameda, CA
Total Est. Time: 7 hours, 16 minutes Total Est. Distance: 474.77 miles
Being a USMC brat, I wasn't sure what childhood home to use; Palm Springs is where I was born (29 Palms was where we were stationed). After that I lived in Dearborne, MI; El Toro, CA; Salem, OR; Oak Harbor, WA; Renton, WA; Princeton, NJ; and then, as an adult, I fled back to the land of my birth and flitted around the bay area a good bit over 25 years before ending up on Alameda, a reformed military town. Until I came to the bay area I'd never lived anyplace more than 5 years. Remarkably, I still haven't - In the 25+ yrs I've been around the bay I've lived in Oakland, San Francisco, San Lorenzo, Piedmont, Fremont, San Jose, Boulder Creek, and now, Alameda. No wonder I have very little sense of permanence about my life. My mother once told me (ok, at least once every time I bawled about moving -again-) that ours is a mobile society, and no one stays in the same place their whole life anymore. It's certainly been true for me, even more than for the rest of my family. I wonder if that means something? Another therapy issue, perhaps? Hmmm.
2. Click on Directions
3. Enter your Current Address and the Address of your Childhood Home (or at least the town if you don't remember the exact address)
4. Put the time and distance in a post like this.
5. Don't forget to repost these directions. (Not the door to door ones)
29 Palms/Palm Springs, CA to Alameda, CA
Total Est. Time: 7 hours, 16 minutes Total Est. Distance: 474.77 miles
Being a USMC brat, I wasn't sure what childhood home to use; Palm Springs is where I was born (29 Palms was where we were stationed). After that I lived in Dearborne, MI; El Toro, CA; Salem, OR; Oak Harbor, WA; Renton, WA; Princeton, NJ; and then, as an adult, I fled back to the land of my birth and flitted around the bay area a good bit over 25 years before ending up on Alameda, a reformed military town. Until I came to the bay area I'd never lived anyplace more than 5 years. Remarkably, I still haven't - In the 25+ yrs I've been around the bay I've lived in Oakland, San Francisco, San Lorenzo, Piedmont, Fremont, San Jose, Boulder Creek, and now, Alameda. No wonder I have very little sense of permanence about my life. My mother once told me (ok, at least once every time I bawled about moving -again-) that ours is a mobile society, and no one stays in the same place their whole life anymore. It's certainly been true for me, even more than for the rest of my family. I wonder if that means something? Another therapy issue, perhaps? Hmmm.