rivers

In today's modern world, with our suspension bridges and our amphibious tour buses, rivers still create a great barrier to automobile transportation. I remember how I used to think it was crazy that it took 15-20 minutes to drive to Cherokee Park in Knoxville when I lived practically within sight of it at the Monastery.

During today's boredom, I starting playing with maps. I searched for locations directly across rivers from each other, and I found these anomalies (slowly zoom out to get full effect):

32.7 miles / 1 hour, 4 minute drive-time

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182 miles / 5 hours, 58 minutes drive-time

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And although this doesn't have much to do with rivers, it is nuts: The capital and largest city in all of Greenland (almost 1/3 of the population lives there). Can you imagine?


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I hope someone finds any of this at least a little bit interesting!