All us Californi@s look alike from the Village.

1. 
   Megan 2008 03 20 at 3:39:32 pm

   Of course, my understanding of the world tails off at about the Sierras.  There are the lovely White Mountains past that, and then I think that dragons roam around in mesas or something before you get to a big huge cliff that drops off forever.

2. 
   Chris Clarke 2008 03 20 at 3:49:41 pm

   Truckee: gateway to Europe.

3. 
   Megan 2008 03 20 at 4:32:41 pm

   What is Europe?

4. 
   Rob G 2008 03 20 at 4:38:13 pm

   Megan, you may know it better by the Bush pronunciation - “Yurp”.

5. 
   Fred Levitan 2008 03 20 at 4:39:23 pm

   Isn’t Lake Lahontan, and then some big ice-sheets, out past Truckee?

6. 
   R. Mildred 2008 03 20 at 4:41:20 pm

   Calcutta is the state between Oklahoma and Connetticcutt right?

7. 
   Chris Clarke 2008 03 20 at 4:43:56 pm

   That would be Okalkutta.

8. 
   embee 2008 03 20 at 5:13:05 pm

   *guffaws*

   ...then remembers she’s at work, whoops!

9. 
   Daisy 2008 03 20 at 5:18:17 pm

   And as I’ve always suspected:  the south is totally nonexistent.

10. 
    sravana 2008 03 20 at 5:41:21 pm

    I particularly appreciated how Utah is south of Las Vegas. Um. not.

11. 
    Mandos 2008 03 21 at 8:52:33 am

    I always think of California as one big blob of Californiosity.

12. 
    Charles 2008 03 21 at 10:33:02 am

    I once had an Easterner insist to me, heatedly and vociferously, that Iowa is south of South Dakota and north of Nebraska.  Nothing would convince him—not even telling him that I grew up in Iowa and had some firsthand knowledge of the subject.  Unfortunately we were nowhere near a map at the time. 

    Does anyone besides me remember the Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre parody of Oh Calcutta? 

    Oh, Calcutta!
    Kama Sutra, Yoga and the re-est!
    Oh, Calcutta!
    Conway Twitty!
    Of all the English colonies you’re the best!

13. 
    Chris Clarke 2008 03 21 at 10:46:34 am

    Mandos, Mandos, Mandos.

14. 
    Charles 2008 03 21 at 10:48:47 am

    Bah.  Those words aren’t right.  The old memory is fading on me.

15. 
    Rachel Shaw 2008 03 21 at 2:27:10 pm

    Hee.

    I remember at least one acquaintance in the Midwest wondering whether I ever “just” visited San Francisco for the weekend on a whim - when I was living in San Diego.

    Um… no.

    This misunderstanding of the scale of California geography goes back a good ways—I remember reading a bit of correspondence from the 1930s (or 1920s - it’s been a while) between the BIA headquarters back in DC and the local agent for Southern California, in which the agent was trying to explain why, yes, he did need a car to administer all of the reservations in the area (which ran from north of LA, east to the area around Joshua Tree, and south to the border - which even today requires at minimum 4 hours one way to go from one corner to the next, driving like a nut during off hours on modern freeways), and that, unlike what his superior thought, San Francisco was not just down the road from Los Angeles.

16. 
    Chris Clarke 2008 03 21 at 2:34:55 pm

    I remember at least one acquaintance in the Midwest wondering whether I ever “just” visited San Francisco for the weekend on a whim - when I was living in San Diego.

    Um… no.

    And my feelings are still hurt.

    Snif.

17. 
    Rachel Shaw 2008 03 21 at 3:35:52 pm

    *pat pat*

    Shall I fling a virtual chocolate at you?  :)