Oh yeah... Hinzi, Eritrea! How could I have missed such a location. I bet even my two pre-schoolers could have gotten that one. :tb-wink: Good job, Scott Stutzman and Curn.
I should have reloaded the page before I hit post reply. Oh Well. It looks like you beat me by about 10 minutes
Man, that's a blank zone on Google Maps. They don't even show the roads. My search technique of toggling back and from Satellite to Map let me down. I worked my way up from Djibouti to Aswan and did not see a single railroad. How did you find that Scott?
I tried not to focus on the man made features. I went for the geographical "fingerprint". (Colors,shadows ect...)
You speak Huskerese? Cool!! BTW, I was born in Nebraska, and consider myself a Midwestern refugee. As the saying goes, I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as quick as I could
My wife left Texas and is in business with a friend of hers who also left Texas but was originally from Tennessee. They call themselves "Texpatriates." My dad is from Louisville, Kentucky, if you count being born there and living there until age four as "being from there." My maternal grandfather is from Arkansas, but again only lived there until age four. I sometimes get called a Yankee by the three of them, though I think of Oregonians as being way removed from that Southerner/Yankee Mason-Dixon Line stuff. After waking up in my log cabin and putting on my buckskin outfit I pick up my knife and go wrestle some bears down by the river, only to return later and cook up some nice flapjacks on a cast iron skillet over an open fire. That's what Oregonians do, right? That doesn't sound very Yankee to me.
btw everyone, I'm sorry! Very very sorry! If you want to know, I saw a picture of this railroad on Railpictures.net a few months back. (Search that site for Eritrea if you're curious.) I found the spot in Google Earth, and it looks like it would be a very fun train ride.
