# New Game: The jaunty drive into work. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2000, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-the-jaunty-drive-into-work/25527 "2000-07-14T05:00:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jayron\_32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jayron\_32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayron_32)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-the-jaunty-drive-into-work/25527/41 "2000-07-18T05:18:48Z")
Using Homers directions, I’d be somewhere north of O’Hare Airport, probably in the town of Palatine. That’s my best guess, as I don’t have a map right here to look at. Of course to get there I travelled a good part of the way on Chicago surface streets when the Tri-State goes right there… Using Niggle’s directions, I’d have gone a net of three blocks east and 8 blocks north… That’d put me at parking lot for the United Center(home of the Bulls and the Blackhawks). Not sure why I walked all the way down to Western Avenue to get there, since I look out my window to see it. But that’s where I’d be. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-the-jaunty-drive-into-work/25527/42 "2000-07-19T05:18:01Z")
Begin. ::get in Jeep. 1 block east ::end of my street. great so far. 1/2 mile south ::an intersection, even! Amazing! 5 miles west ::go 4.5 miles past the end of the dead-end street, end up at a state highway. 4 miles north ::still on same highway 6 miles west ::across a bunch of pastures and woods. 15 miles north ::across assorted woods and ranchland, end up on US 271 2 blocks east ::middle o’ the woods. 2 blocks north ::same as above. I’m now sitting in my work parking lot. Where would YOU be? ::I have no idea…looks like either forest or ranch/pasture (no roads anywhere close, except the highway) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-the-jaunty-drive-into-work/25527/43 "2000-07-19T05:28:07Z")
I haven’t gotten out the road map… but sitting here at work, and thinking… I’m pretty sure I’d end up out in the middle of NOWHERE. Probably somebody’s big pasture/farmland type of place actually. That fifteen miles north is the killer. Not a whole lot north of here until you get to Kelso… Screeme ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-the-jaunty-drive-into-work/25527/44 "2000-07-20T03:07:08Z")
These directions put me about 20 minutes north of Lake Wobegone… 1 block east puts me on 10th St. W. 1/2 mile south Division 5 miles west St. Joseph, MN 4 miles north St. Wendell township - intersection of 2 & 4 6 miles west Avon township 15 miles north About 3 miles NW of Bowlus 2 blocks east Middle of nowhere 2 blocks north Ditto [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-the-jaunty-drive-into-work/25527.md?page=2)