> *Seems like 2000 miles is a little short. It's about 3000 miles between the west and east coasts of the United States, but I don't know what route this guy took. If he arced through Canada, would his trip have been that much shorter, since lines of longitude are closer together when you're closer to the poles? Of course, I could have misunderstood him. It sure sounded like he said 2000 miles, but he might have said "over 2000 miles," which could be 2800 (he might have had a strong enough disinclination to exaggerate so as to prefer to round down than up). How many miles IS it from Fort Yukon, Alaska, to Kittery, Maine?


As a direct quote from the mileage calculator at the link below, "The distance from Fort Yukon, Alaska to Portsmouth, New Hampshire is approximately 3140.6 miles." Portsmouth is about 10 miles from Kittery, (I know because I looked at it in my atlas), so the final result would be around 3240.6 miles.