[Sca-cooks] OT Travel Times was Re: Candlemas Feast

[Jehan-Yves]

         The Shire that I live in, Caer Adamant in East Kingdom, 
encompasses the entire State of Delaware, and can be as much as a 
three hour drive from one end of the Shire to the other.
Jehan-Yves

At 09:14 AM 9/19/2006, you wrote:
>Namron (Norman, OK) and Wiesenfeuer (OKC, OK)  had to explain the travel
>time problem to a Steppes (Dallas) based Crown who wanted to know why we
>weren't a single group.  They didn't grasp the idea that Oklahoma City was
>larger than Dallas in land area (at the time OKC was the largest single city
>in the world with 625 square miles inside the city limits) and didn't have
>the freeway system that Dallas has.  At the time, it took me 45 minutes to
>commute from the center of Norman to the center of Oklahoma City.  From far
>Northwest OKC to the meeting in Norman took almost 90 minutes.
>
>Bear
>
> > Wow. A 90 minute drive to attend a shire meeting?  And I thought the
> > problems of getting the populace together in a large, spread out city
> > such as Houston or Dallas was a problem compared to Austin. Austin is
> > about 30 miles across, with about 120 members.
> >
> >
> > Stefan
>
>
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Jehan-Yves