Doug McConnell’s OpenRoad.TV Tips

January 2009

01/05/09

Geographic Quirks

As much as I love exploring California, the West and the nation, I love traveling far and wide in hopes of seeing everything and every place the planet has to offer. Of course, I'll never see it all, but I continue to pretend.

Wherever I go, near or far, I very much enjoy finding geographic quirks. I've spent quite a bit of time on the Big Island of Hawaii, from its base to its summit the tallest mountain on earth and the southernmost piece of the United States.  The northernmost, westernmost and easternmost state in the union is Alaska.  I lived there a long time and always got a big kick out of its many geographic wonders.  More coastline than the rest of the US combined, the highest peak in North America, of course (please call it Denali, not McKinley,...

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