Interesting question. From where I sit right now, I can’t really go in 3 of the 4 major directions.
East: in two minutes I’d be in Lake Superior
North: I’d be in Lake Superior in maybe 40 minutes
South: Lake Michigan, about 1.5 hours
West: Somewhere around Hurley, WI in 3 hours
Of course, I’m not limited to only the 4 major directions. 3 house SW is Green Bay, WI. 3 hours a little south and east is Sault Ste. Marie, MI.
Other than that, not much. I live in the middle of nowhere. Yay!
East: Mexico
West: Mexico, again
South: yep, you got it, Mexico
North: Still in the same county I started in!
Texas really is a BIG place.
North: Not quite to the Canadian border.
Northeast: Vermont.
East: Boston.
Southeast: Someplace past Hartford, Connecticut.
South: New York City.
Southwest: Pennsylvania.
West: the Finger Lakes.
Montana, Montana, Montana . . . and the north entrance to Yellowstone Park.
It’s nice to know so many of you are so far away from me.
West, turning North: Sarasota, FL
North: Vero Beach, FL
South, turning West: Key West, FL
Unfortunately, it takes 7-8 hours to even get to the next state.
North: Belfast
South: Rosslare, Co Wexford
West: Galway
East: I’d be in the Irish Sea in a few minutes.
Whistlepig, I figure you’re about three hours from the Lochsa. If so, you’re a lucky Whistlepig.
Well, going east I could make it to Lafayette, Louisiana if I hooked’em. Or I could stop on the way at the Big Thicket.
Going north I could make it to Corsicana, if I left around midnight. Leaving during the day adds ~45 minutes to the time required to get out of town.
Austin is well within range if I went northwest. Even speeding more so than usual, I don’t think I could quite get to Waco, but I might be able to reach Fort Hood.
If I just stayed on I-10 heading west, I could make it to San Antonio, but once again, I might want to leave late at night.
And a southerly excursion would get me to Galveston with time for a swim, a side trip to the San Jacinto Battlefield and back home.
I wonder how long it would take me to just make one complete circuit of Beltway 8 around town?
Almost Atlantic city to the south
Bloomsberge PA to the west (about the middle of the eastern 1/2 of the state)
Albany to the north (really Lee MA is due north but due to having to go through NYC it moves me over to the west somewhat
Assuming no current 1 mile off montauk point (which includes a 1 hour swim due east at a speed of 1 mph) to the east though Warwick RI is the most eastern point I could get to but it is really NE.
North - Cheyenne, Laramie
South - Colorado Springs, Northern New Mexico
West - Vail, Aspen (in summer), Steamboat Springs
East - well… Dodge City, Kansas?
The other side of the GW bridge