[Ansteorra] Collision of Caravans

[Chris Zakes]

At 04:12 PM 6/21/2013, you wrote:

>Master Tivar!  Ever read "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut?"  It's a short story 
>by Stephen
>King circa early- mid-1980's.  Perhaps the map was giving you the 
>"as the crow
>flies" distance.  Practice enough and you could bend space and time 
>and arrive
>at your destination more quickly than if you'd taken an "as the crow flies"
>direct route.  Of course, there's no telling what kind of critters you might
>encounter...


I think in this particular instance, the map, GPS and Google Maps 
were all based on a *proposed* road, that never got built. Google 
Maps satellite view (which we didn't check until after the fact) was 
the only map that was accurate.

         -Tivar Moondragon