Was it on "60 minutes" or an other show ? I recall a town is actually split in 2? The "time line" goes right thru a school gym...
So, one lives in the trepidation of being "early" or "late" according to where one has to be??? For a time conscious like me (and a little obssessive)... it would be "hell on earth" LOL
Probably about three or four seasons ago, this was a "gag" on an episode of "West Wing". There was a campaign stop in Indiana and a bunch of staffers were marooned in Southern Indiana; they missed the plane because of the time difference. They had to hitchhike to Cincinnati to get back to Washington.
Kat, depending on where in the state that place is, they might be on the same time half the year and different time half the year. It is absolutely nuts.
H2C, it's not quite as bad as driving down Interstate 65 from Indianapolis to, say, Nashville. One might have to change his watch two or three times on that trip...once when entering the Indiana suburbs of Louisville, again in the middle of Kentucky, and again at Bowling Green. Cellphones go crazy on that trip.
The parts of Indiana at the edges of the state are where we have the most problems...and that's where a lot of people live. Other than Indianapolis right in the middle of the state, the concentrated populations are suburbs of Chicago, Louisville, and Cincinnati, or Indiana cities right on the borders of Ohio (Fort Wayne and Richmond), Kentucky (Evansville), Illinois (Terre Haute and Vincennes), and Michigan (South Bend/Notre Dame).
Add to that our "agricultural" and "factory worker" heritage...which means there are a lot of people who get up early in the morning to work and like getting up in daylight for part of the year. Those folks have resisted losing their morning daylight.
And finally, we are right on the edge of the Eastern/Central "solar" line, so we're either going to be stuck with dawn breaking at 4:30am or last light fading at 9:45pm in midsummer. So far we've opted for early sunrise.
It's a mess. Even someone like me who's lived here most of his life has to stop and think what part of the year it is (and thus what time it will be elsewhere) when calling, flying, or driving out of state.
Chris,
I struggle to remember to change the clock twice a year never mind rethink time as I move around the county! It has been known for me to:-
A) turn up and hour early for work
B)Turn up an hour late
To have to re think as I move through the state, would no doubt blow my mind!
Jean UK
Wow Chris, you hit close to home on that one. I am in Illinois about 40 minutes from Vincennes and 60 minutes from Terre Haute.
I rode my motorcycle to the Eye Doctor in Terre Haute today. Left at 9:30am and it was a calm, beautiful ride. Then sometime when I was in Sam's Club the wind whipped up hard from the southwest and the ride home was a battle all the way. What a bummer. It was still fun but after the soothing morning ride I got spoiled. And now rain in the forecast for the next few days.
I'm really jazzed...except when I think about adjusting to time differences. Grew up in Illinois and never liked the time changes there...we don't do that in AZ. Anyway, I'll start a cross country trip in three weeks...from AZ, to IL,to Florida, then up the East Coast...into New York, Pennsylvania...etc... Will be driving the entire trip. I'm very excited, but know that time changes really mess me up. Always do when I visit family in Illinois, and takes me several days to adjust to the difference. I'm taking my time; will be gone for about 6 weeks (have a sitter staying at the house with the girls).
Living a long time dream here. One of my oldest (I love telling her that!) friends and I used to plan a trip like this when we were in 8th grade, and throughout high school. I'll visit her in Florida, which is currently 3 hours ahead of me (I think).
Next year...I'm going to Europe for an extended trip. Another dream...but again, one that will take some adjusting to with the time changes. I plan on sleeping/resting for the first few days there!
I have to be particularly careful because of my disability. Have to make frequent stops when driving, and move around on planes quite a bit when flying.
Cindy, that does sound like a pretty cool trip. I also like planning a trip to look forward to. Car trips are the most fun because the scenery actually changes gradually...air trips are quick but so surreal and disorienting sometimes.
Yes...I particularly love driving trips. Have gone from here to IL quite a few times...and back, of course. IL to Louisiana when I lived there...and so on. Will do many side trips on this drive...something I've never done before. Have never taken the "time" to just enjoy where I am...see some of the sights of any particular place I've been.
When I'm driving, I love imagining the landscapes I'm seeing as they were without all the power lines, roads and "civilization" marring the vision. Amazing to me what the world must have looked like before we spread out all over it. I can picture it in my mind..how it must have been: a small cabin, or settlement on a creek/river bank. I can see the people working in small gardens, larger fields meant to feed their families. Planting, weeding, working the land, horses grazing in the open meadows, and the children running, playing between the rows of corn...or wheat...in between the cabins and outbuildings...hide and seek? Maybe. Their first break of the day because they've been busy doing chores all morning. First settlers...forging their lives living on the lands I see. I can picture Natives perched upon their horses on hill tops...scanning the land around them for possible dangers, or crawling on their bellies, stalking their prey...the deer, or buffalo just over the rise. Or groups of families in the wagon trains...how they must have struggled to cross some of the rougher terrain. How did they get around some of the hills where I live...particularly with all the rocks/boulders littering the ground? I imagine a scout going out ahead of the train...looking for possible ways around the rougher spots. A hard life, to be sure. But a purer, simpler way of living.
Sorry..sort of rambled off there! But that's why I love driving...I can "picture" all kinds of things in my mind while driving.
I daydream a lot when I drive Maybe not such a good thing!
I concur with NM, Kats house is open, inviting and the food is great, even if she won't let me help her in the kitchen... And the company is THE BEST!
And the price is right too!! LOL
And if anyone is road tripping up to the Western Massachusetts area, let me know. We have a spare room that Kat has stayed in and if you're a history buff, we have lots of stuff to keep you occupied.
Anyone else getting pumped for Big D? Six weeks from this Friday, babeeee....
It's controversial but in 1500, there may have been more Americans (north and south) than Europeans. Americans were probably richer and they probably had better living conditions. American cities were larger than European cities and the streets probably weren't flooded with raw sewage (unlike European cities). In 1500, the biggest city in the Americas (Tenochtitlan in Mexico) was bigger than the biggest city in Europe (Paris).
Before 1491, American agriculture was far ahead of European agriculture. Americans (north and south) had already developed more than half of the crop plants that are grown worldwide today including corn (maize), potatoes, tomatoes, peanuts, squash, beans etc. In Peru, about 1.5 million acres of terraces still exist. In midwestern North America, the fertile prairie was maintained by regular burning. It was only after 1492 that much of it began to forest. Europeans probably didn't do as much damage to the environment as Americans had done until 1800.
Perhaps 95% of those Americans (north and south) were wiped out by smallpox, measles, hepatitis, flu, bubonic plague, mumps, whooping cough, trichonosis, tuberculosis, and typhus before Europeans began colonizing in the 1600's. In the mid 1500's, when de Soto marched from Florida to Texas, the place was densely populated with hundreds of small cities, many of them protected by walls and moats. When Europeans returned 100 years later, the place was deserted.
The "vast pristeen wilderness" that the European colonists found in the 1600's could have been less than 100 years old. The enormous herds of bison on the plains of North America and the rain forests of South America probably did not exist in 1491. Millions of people had been eating the bison and burning the rain forests to plant crops.
Thanks Kat and Cory...the invites are very nice. Not sure how far into NC I'm going...I'll let you know Kat. If nothing else, would sure be nice to meet you all for a "day trip" somewhere along the way. Nice to put faces to names.
But the 'funny' thing is ... that's it, we just add a face to the name cause, for example with Cory, we got to know each other so well (lol) that it was like seeing a long lost family member...we had even talked on the phone so I knew his voice and recognized right away that" yo babeeee" in the middle of the airport and got him pegged out of the crowd LOL LOL
