On Mon, 05 May 2008 07:25:38 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
> 
>> On the one hand, that makes some sense to me, but on the other hand,
>> surely they would have recognized that they were moving away from the
>> cows....
>> 
>> Jim
> 
> I'm wondering if the same thing is why someone like me (who lives in an
> area where there are basically no hills) sees mountains as so surreal
> when I actually see them.

It might be. I have the opposite trouble, I lose any ability to tell long 
distances in flat open areas. I grew up in an area where there were lots 
of hills and mountains, and the only flat spots where the valleys in 
between. A wide view of flat scenery just seems so vast, things past 
about 100 meters just blend together.

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