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

[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.