Travel meme, gacked from atdelphi

[graculus]

And I should know this, because I just did the drive there and back... ;)

1. Go To Mapquest.com (or in my case, Multimap.com)
2. Click on Directions
3. Enter your Current Address and the Address of your Childhood Home (or at least the town if you don't remember the exact address).
4. Put the time and distance in a post like this.
5. Repost the instructions to the meme in your own blog.

Start: Derby, Derbyshire (a tad redundant?)
Finish: Lowestoft, Suffolk

Est. time: 3 hours and 49 minutes
Est. distance: 169.6 miles (272.9 km)

That's the distance to the house I lived in from when I was 3, till I was about 16, which is about half a mile from where my mother lives now.

E.T.A.

And for where I was born...

Start: Derby
Finish: Chelmsford, Essex

Est. time: 2 hours and 45 minutes
Est. distance: 153 miles (246.2 km)

Comments

[sg1scribe.livejournal.com]

You were born in the same town as me. How weird is that. Your brother isn't called Richard by any chance?

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I realised when I got your post that I regard 'childhood home' as meaning Lowestoft (since I don't remember living anywhere else), when in fact I was born in Chelmsford, Essex.

So still spooky, but not *quite* as spooky as before... ;)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

And the answer to your second question is 'no', but then it depends on whether you lived south of the bridge or north (we lived north) as to whether our families' paths would have crossed...

Still, what are the odds?

[sg1scribe.livejournal.com]

We lived north. I spent the first 18 years of my life in the town before escaping to university. Still have a sister and a gaggle of nephews and nieces in the town, plus a brother in Oulton Broad. It would've been altogether too spooky if it had turned out your brother had been in the same class as me at school.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Yikes. We went to the same secondary school, I dare say, but we must have avoided greater congruity than that...

My brother lives in Beccles, I have nephews (and two great-nephews) still in the town - you know what it's like, if you don't get out of there at some point, you never do! :P

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Um, define "childhood home". I was born in one place, then moved at 2, 4, 4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, and 19 (and 20, 21, 22, 23, 28).

Which one of those would count? ;-P

[graculus.livejournal.com]

There's always one, but why is it always you? ;)

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

ROFL! Um, I don't know. I'm sorry. Really.

Well, the furthest of those is around 1,900 miles away. The closest is 1 mile. Not sure which I'd pick.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Well, is there a place during your childhood that you think of more when you think of 'home'?

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Yeah, wherever my parents were. That's kind of what happens in a military family. I was at boarding school in one place for years, but that would never be considered "home". Ick. The place I think I liked best as a location was Scotland, so that was... around 600-700 miles away from where I am now.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you and xochiquetzl have a lot in common where this meme is concerned...

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that. It's one of those things that makes it hard to have the conversation about where you grew up, and what it was like, and which friends you had. Sometimes, you might move somewhere and there were kids you knew from three moves ago, but mostly it was yet more new people. It was good though, on base, because there was always plenty of space to run around and go for walks.

[sazandra.livejournal.com]

Whereas I'm the complete opposite to Lex.
I've lived in the same place my entire life.