On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:42:37PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:11 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>US-30/I-84 freeway to WalMart and ask the kid in the electronics > >What part of the world is that? > > Erm, somewhere in the Nothern half of the US. I'm guessing norther > Oregon, Southern Washington or maybe somewhere in Wisconsin or Michigan. > > ObUselessGeographyLesson: East/West numbered high/free-ways in the US > are even numbered. North/South are odd numbered. They are numbered > low-to-high from south-to-north and west-to-east. So I-84 is up north > somewhere. If he gave an odd numbered Interstate you could pretty much peg > his state if not city by the numbers alone without once looking at a map. > For example I-5 and I-80 would mean N.California (Sacramento, to be > precise) as I-5 is N/S on the west coast (low numbered) and I-80 is E/W > above the middle of the nation. :) >
I84 goes from Echo, Utah west to Portland, Oregon. Over much of its length US30 is closely parallel or shares the same pavement. In several cities along I84, it appears that US30 is the de facto business route, and I84 the city by-pass. Walmarts tend to be located at major highway junctions in the western US. There are, at most a few dozen possible locations, all in Idaho and Oregon. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
