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Re: GPS no substitute for common sense
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2010 May 7, 17:23 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2010 May 7, 17:23 -0400
Do they drive on the left in Australia? (bing!) On May 7, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Peter Fogg wrote: > Highway 1 is a well trodden route. These days hordes of grey > nomads make the big circuit. Since these retirees may have a > limited budget, its worth remembering that making this > circumnavigation in an anti-clockwise direction is a shorter > alternative to going clockwise. > > Why? How is this so? > (this is really easy but if a clue is needed, it can be found > within the photo showing the big screen) > > For bonus points calculate the difference.