Weekend Plans
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@scottalanmiller said:
Ha ha. Just checked the map, definitely three hours to Brasil. We are exactly halfway from Houston to Brasil.
Is that a flight or a car?
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Ha ha. Just checked the map, definitely three hours to Brasil. We are exactly halfway from Houston to Brasil.
Is that a flight or a car?
No roads connecting North and South America. Research the Darian bio gap.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Ha ha. Just checked the map, definitely three hours to Brasil. We are exactly halfway from Houston to Brasil.
Is that a flight or a car?
No roads connecting North and South America. Research the Darian bio gap.
Holy crap... who would have thought that there is a 100 mile stretch of no road between central and south America...
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@scottalanmiller said:
Research the Darian bio gap.
"The first all-land auto crossing was in 1985–87 by Loren Upton and Patty Mercier in a CJ-5 Jeep, taking 741 days to travel 125 miles (201 km). "
That's a nasty stretch of land there.
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@coliver said:
Holy crap... who would have thought that there is a 100 mile stretch of no road between central and south America...
Pretty crazy, huh? You have to have a special visa from the Panamanian government to even approach the zone, let alone enter it. It's a biodiversity gap to stop diseases from spreading between the continents.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Holy crap... who would have thought that there is a 100 mile stretch of no road between central and south America...
Pretty crazy, huh? You have to have a special visa from the Panamanian government to even approach the zone, let alone enter it. It's a biodiversity gap to stop diseases from spreading between the continents.
That makes sense.. I am assuming more for livestock than humans?
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To some degree, but really everything. They don't want people just passing back and forth. They want them going through customs and really carefully controlled gateways. The primary way through is a ferry to Columbia.
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@scottalanmiller said:
To some degree, but really everything. They don't want people just passing back and forth. They want them going through customs and really carefully controlled gateways. The primary way through is a ferry to Columbia.
I'm still kind of amazed that there isn't a road for 100 miles... it just boggles my mind. The reasons I understand but it seems like that would be a fairly important trade avenue.
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Agreed, You'd think they could build a road along the coast with checkpoints on both sides.
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@Dashrender said:
Agreed, You'd think they could build a road along the coast with checkpoints on both sides.
, but perhaps the risk is just to great.It isn't that big of an area (100 miles by 31 miles) so adding a road anywhere would destroy a significant amount of the rain forest.
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They could build it as a bridge, no destruction, at least to the rainforest.
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@Dashrender said:
They could build it as a bridge, no destruction, at least to the rainforest.
I really hope that someday they put in an elevated high speed rail link. That the forest is controlled by armed drug cartels makes that hard to do, though.
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@MattSpeller said:
Thanks Giving turkey with family, providing I can keep this cold at bay
Have some pepperoni and some smokes, you'll be fine.
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Anyone doing anything fun this weekend?
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Tomorrow @Mike-Ralston's girlfriend is coming for the day and if the weather cooperates we will be hiking down to Buttermilk Falls in Leroy NY. Celebrating his Bday a little more with @art_of_shred's side of the family. And trying to get a nice long nap in. They are calling for the dreaded 4 letter word here this weekend. I hate the next season.
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Snow? Already!
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Oh man, please don't let it start snowing this weekend. Although Connecticut doesn't get snow as early as Upstate NY normally, being close to the water has its advantages. But that means it could be here soon too.
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Not unusual for us to get a little snow after the 15th each year. But next week will be in the high 60's again so not all is lost.
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Chilly week here, not even supposed to top 90 all week!
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