Megaliths of the Present Past

... 5 on the east and a Tolkienian fadeaway into the Pacific Coast Highway on the west, and is elevated...they filled up so much of the map that there wasn't room for ... “Century Freeway,” a long-delayed north-south corridor that was famously proclaimed to ... trucks connecting Canada with the West Coast of the United States would be diverted onto Seattle streets or east onto the 405—untenable. That's ...

[LINK] "Dubai, Money, Smuggling and Organized Crime"

...located the city-state on a map, let alone talk authoritatively about the...place and its people. Arabs, Iranians, Baluchis, East Africans, Pakistanis and West Coast Indians, by contrast...decided to withdraw all its forces east of Suez. (…) Dubai itself has modest...largest marine facility in the Middle East. While critics scoffed at the grandiose... safe place in the Middle East to stash your money. Since ...

Wandering the West Coast: Trip report, Nov. 7-14, 2009 (part 3)

... found amusing about driving on the coast is that, every time you'd ... Oregon's northern edge and then east to Portland, but I didn't ...gas station to fill up. Just south of Washington's capital, Olympia, ...a small town, according to the map, and about as remote as you...had read that, because the Oregon coast never gets a hard freeze in...3 and then Route 305 deeper south onto Bainbridge Island, across the ...

Wandering the West Coast: Trip report, Nov. 7-14, 2009 (part 1)

... San Francisco, then drive the Pacific Coast Highway all the way to Seattle,... ever booked. Not the cheapest West Coast flight I've ever booked -- ...We had bought a glossy laminated map of downtown San Francisco to guide...hiking through Chinatown, we consulted the map and saw Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower to the east: ...west to Steiner Street and turned south toward our next destination: the Painted...

ficmix: the broken glass in front of me

.... The driver laughs when Smitty tells him he wants to go south and asks him how much he’s got. Smitty tells him... line between the two this is cartography for beginners on a map, the gap's three fingers but it's more than that... mended by gummy duct tape, and flips through it, his fingers touching down on the East Coast. He scans the page for cities. There he is, Boston, with roads curling around it. ...

We Hold These Truths... (Precious Declaration I)

... frakked.” He pointed at a map with red circles on it...an area on the eastern coast of one continent that had...stretch up and down the coast. “We landed here. They really...then,” he slid his finger east across an ocean to another...chain of islands even further east. A few crossed into the...rings. Two landmasses to the south were mostly clear, with red...this.” She pointed at the map. “And Bill needs his friend...

Dice, in a Game of War - chapter 7/10 [Hikaru no Go, Waya, Touya, fantasy/detective AU]

...on its closed lid, revealing a map of the continent. Black crosses and.... Isumi studied the ink-smudged map. “Using the land itself as ... a rug, pored over my map. “Could we cast a divination ... A city, far to the east. ” I examined the board again ... He was headed to the south coast, but it doesn't ... so I fixed Suyeong's map by excluding all the places ... I smiled down at the map in my hands. “I think ...

text of the memorial I posted yesterday (with 6 notes)

... Picacho Mining District, John mapped the south-central Chocolate and Cargo Muchacho mountains...Piacho Muchachos." John's superb thesis map, the back bone of his dissertation... offshore studies along the California coast. He was responsible for preparing ... in Alaska's south-central Brooks Range, just east of the ... and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2, p. 453-...

Trinity of One (a tale of love, loss and redemption) 7/9

...on Earth." He brought up a map on his laptop to show ... more moderate areas along the East and West coasts. The Canadian ...as British Columbia on the west coast and the three prairie provinces ... with their Midwest geographic counterparts south of the border as they ... for desperate Americans to escape south. Only one other region suffered ... danger living on the west coast of Canada, he understood that ...

...Charge was set up in a temple in ancient Nubia, south of Cairo. In modern times, that is northern Sudan,... mist. It became a Terra Incognita, not on any map. What has happened there over the past few thousand years... was founded in what is now the Empty Quarter east of Cairo, and at the time it seemed to ... of the Temple of Set on the American west coast, but that may be wishful thinking on their part. ...