[Vision2020] Remote, isolated Moscow

[Sunil Ramalingam]

I think remote is accurate, and maybe why some of us are here.  You usually 
have to want to be here to get here.  When our friends are travelling in the 
summer, no one stops here because it's on the way to some place they were 
headed; they go out of their way to get here.

My hometown Davis, California, is right on I-80, so people heading east out 
of the Bay Area would stop in on their way through.  An hour and a half from 
the nearest freeway, no one drops in to see us in Moscow.

Sunil


>From: "Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Remote, isolated Moscow
>Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:13:53 -0800
>
>Reading some of the national sports reports about Dennis Erickson's return 
>to the U of I, there is often reference to how remote and isolated we are 
>here.  Isn't that a little overblown?  I have personally been in Moscow in 
>the morning, and ended up in Atlanta (Georgia, not Atlanta, Idaho) the very 
>same day.  Ditto other exotic locales like Los Angeles and Ellensburg, 
>without once having to resort to a dog sled team.  Is our remoteness 
>overstated, or am I just a hopeless country rube who simply doesn't realize 
>how bad I've got it here?                                                   
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>Carl Westberg Jr.
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