v. nice afternoon

[mizkit]

Ted and I went over to Monkstown this afternoon, after only a year of saying we were going to. It's directly across the water--the ferry runs every few minutes, back and forth and forth and back, and the church I have taken to referring as my church is there (it turns out the church in question is the Sacred Heart Church, which has absolutely

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[tayefeth]

And in walking around today, I reached Dunharrow! [...] So I've got to walk another 380 miles to get to Minis Tirith, which will probably take me most of the rest of the year, if not all of it. [...]

miles to Dunharrow: 198
miles to Minis Tirith: 1

I so confused!

[mizkit]

I count the number of miles I've walked toward a destination, not how many are left. Technically, I suppose it's miles toward Minis Tirith, but I don't like how that sounds.

For some reason, "miles to X" made perfect sense to me, but it has made no sense to anybody else at all.

[tayefeth]

Miles to X makes perfect sense to me. What confused me was the contrast between "380 miles to Minas Tirith" and "miles to Minas Tirith: 1"...

[mizkit]

*laugh* I can see that. I walked 4 miles yesterday, 3 of which completed the journey to Dunharrow and the 4th of which was the first mile on the road to Minas Tirith (leaving, I suppose, only 379, technically). It all makes sense in my head... :)