*** Quoting Bj”rn Felten from a message to Ward Dossche ***

 WD>>> Actually ...  ... it is west of the US.

 >> Yeah, if I'm heading toward the sunset.

 WD> Exactly ... ;-)

BF>    Isn't that circular reasoning? ;)

Try Nautical reasoning.  Darwin is 3 weeks away .  Valdivosok is
?5 days? ¨away.  I seem to recall, India is 3 weeks and another 3 from that
is the gulf?
Guam is 5 days (maybe 4.5?  Maybe 5.5?).  Yokosuka is 3.

It fun to try to recall them but fact is some of that has to do with: 
¨Currents, and route used.  It can take a grunch longer going one way, than
the ¨other (remeber old math classes?  We aint footing it on a stable
surface).

If I am going forward at the speed of 100feet per minute on a surface that
is ¨going also forward 20 feet per minute, I'm gonna get there faster.  If
i am ¨going 'forward' at a rate of 100 feet per minute but the surface is
going ¨'backward' at a rate of 20 feet per minute, I aint getting there as
soon.

Oh small correction.  I think Darwin is more than 3 weeks but we never go
¨direct to there.  We have stuff we do at various spots along the way.  Got
a ¨major speed bump of 'rough seas' along the way normally too which makes
it a ¨memorable trip on a small ship.  To me, Iwo Jima, is between Ssebo
and Darwin ¨but I bet a map will make that non-sensical.  Like, ask me how
to get to ¨Yokosuka and unless I stop to think, my automatic reaction is
via Okinawa ¨(grin).
                                       xxcarol

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