You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.
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In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.
In my works, the geography map-wise is accurate - roads are where I say they are, and go from this town to the next as I say they do, and yes, it would take a curricle that long to travel that distance.
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.
I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.
I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.
In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.