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.

Well, I've lived in Salt Lake City now for about 13 years (hard to 
believe) - kinda the opposite effect for me.  When I moved here, the 
mountains were fairly surreal, but now when I travel to places without 
mountains, I get my directions all mixed up and the plains look extremely 
unnatural.

It's actually a bit disorienting, but I think that's more about having 
lost a landmark that I'm used to seeing.  Except that when the cloud 
cover is so bad (or the inversion's in place) that I can't see the 
mountains here - that's not a problem for me.  *That's* weird, though.

Jim

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