> Well, actually, I've visited Colorado five or six times, and yeah, I know about its ranching roots. (And probably more about Charles Goodnight than anyone really should, heh.)
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> Like I said, what's odd to me is that what other people consider to be a trip to the "west" is to me a very long trip eastward. When people say, "I'm going to go out west," what automatically springs to my mind is the West *Coast*. And then to find out that no, they really mean the Great Plains -- it's just kind of weird to me. That was the entirety of my point. It was just a passing comment about how different people think about things differently.

I have never been able to figure out why the mid-west is up north. Look at the cotton pickin' map.

And what was Horace Greeley talking about when he said "Go west?" West Virginia?

And how in the world can North Carolina be so much further south than South Dakota?

How did our East Coast get shifted into the Western Hemisphere?

The quickest way to get to the Far East is to sail west.

It's like when I have to get up to go downstairs.
Howard