Road map

[den]

Distances are in red, travel times in minutes in blue

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Alice Springs

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

Thanks to movies like "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (my fav) and "Crocodile Dundee," Alice Springs is probably the second most familiar Australian place-name to Yanks next to Sydney. But my Dog, that place really *is* smack in the middle of the continent!

I share the enthusiasm of the others on your LJ in waiting anxiously for your photos. Quite a trip you've made. I had to convert your distances from km to "real" distance (miles, heehee) but was very impressed with the result!

Note: as a scientist and ham radio operator, I use the metric system all the time, and vastly prefer it, but bugger, but having grown up with the Imperial system, my frame of reference is still not metric. I can estimate with good accuracy how much a milliliter or a liter is, or a meter, or a gram -- I can tell you how many kg I weigh -- but when someone says "xxxkm away," I'm lost. I guess I just need more experience with it. Bugger the Brits for sticking us with their system. I still can never remember how many ounces to a cup, or cups to a quart, or quarts to a gallon. And though I know what "room temperature" is in Celsius, as well as some common temps for developing film, I can't step outside and say "Oh, it's about xxx degrees Celsius out here." ARGH! Hey, I know... I have a metric truckload of darkroom measuring thingies in S.I. units; maybe I could just clean them off *really* well, and use my cheapy calculator that automatically converts from Imperial to S.I. I can just picture Julie Childs now: "Add 0.5kg of butter to 0.75 liters of flour. Set the oven for 40 degrees Celsius." I know that might seem perfectly natural to you, but to me it borders on funny. }:xD

Re: Alice Springs

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Interesting thing though.... as a canuck, and an aviator... I'm forced by circumstance to know both systems well... those converting calculators work great... until you try to convert negative celcius to farentheit.... they haven't quit got the algorithm for that one down yet it seems

Re: Alice Springs

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The Alice is about the same discance from the Tropic Of Capricorn as Miami is from the Tropic Of Cancer. It's amazing what a difference a bit of water makes. In my photos you'll see a lot of green; that's not normal. The place should be red with dust, so my photos will be atypical of the area. In fact, the dryest place I've seen so far is Dubbo!