Hey Larry, When you gonna post them Pics of the Auto Cross, I've been dying
to see them when I could see the screen.
Mike W
60 Bugeye "Bloodshot
72 MGB "Jooce"
----- Original Message -----
From "Larry Macy" <macy at bbl.med.upenn.edu>
To: "Frank Clarici" <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>; "Robert E. Shlafer" <PilotRob@webtv.net>;
"Larry Pitts" <FUZZY95687@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: Sprite Spree revisited
> When I first moved to Pennsylvania from Wyoming, via Arkansas, I
> couldn't find my way around either. One of the worst parts was trying
> to drive around Philly. Either somebody steals all the street signs
> (and any posts to put them on) or Philly never had any money to put
> them up in the first place.
>
> Now the situation in the rest of the state AFAIK is about the same.
>
> If you look at a map of Lansdale, you will see it is not even laid out
> on a N-S, E-W basis. All the streets are off 45 (or 135, depending on
> your point of view) degrees.
>
> Then you have things like I-76 East (The Schuylkill Express) the
> actually runs South into Philly. And I-95 is a N-S route, but in Philly
> it runs E-W.
>
> And we are far enough from the ocean that that doesn't help either.
>
> I always suspected it was a Quaker plot to keep out the unwashed, but
> in the Quaker areas, there are street signs everywhere.
>
> THanks MapQuest ;-)
>
> Larry
>
> On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 12:13 PM, Frank Clarici wrote:
>
> > Larry Pitts wrote:
> >
> >> I only have one question,
> >> how to you east coast guys find your way anywhere?
> >> On roads out west you go north to an intersection east to the next,
> >> south to the next and so on. Eventually you end up back where you
> >> started.
> >> In my limited driving experience back east that ain't necessarily
> >> so......
> >
> > Personally, I think I am just "tuned" to where the ocean is, and that's
> > ALWAYS
> > East. And when I was in California, I was ALWAYS heading the wrong way.
> > I instictively knew where the ocean was but it was on the wrong side so
> > I kept going North trying to get from LA to San Diego.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Frank Clarici
> > Toms River, NJ
> > 5 British cars on the road
> > http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
> >
> >
> --
>
> Larry Macy
> 78 Midget
>
> Keep your top down and your chin up.
>
> Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
> macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
> System Manager/Administrator
> Neuropsychiatry Section
> Department of Psychiatry
> University of Pennsylvania
> 3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
>
> Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a
> question
> and you're a fool for the rest of your life.
>
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