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<\/a><\/div>\nEver wonder how far away somewhere is from you? I remember getting out the atlas, marking my departure and destination points and then proceeding to add up all the little numbers between spots. Between big cities on the interstate you could use the red numbers but then when you got to side roads you’d use the black numbers. This was back in the day when of course you drove everywhere. I didn’t fly anywhere until I was 19. I still like to get out the atlas and dream and add up numbers. Now however I confess that if I’m serious about a destination I plug in the addresses to Mapquest <\/a>or if I want to see where could I go in say a 200 mile radius I go to freemaptools<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ever wonder how far away somewhere is from you? I remember getting out the atlas, marking my departure and destination points and then proceeding to add up all the little numbers between spots. Between big cities on the interstate you could use the red numbers but then when you got to side roads you’d use …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zbKo-Ik","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}