On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:46:07 -0700, Chambers wrote:

> On 4/26/2009 3:38 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Just for grins, I also did the house I grew up in, that took about the
>> same amount of time, but I was surprised that I knew that geography
>> still pretty well.
> 
> I tried the house I grew up in, but there's a lot of sprawl in that area
> (rows and rows of identical streets, nothing really distinguishing
> them).  Once a found a landmark I recognized, I was able to follow the
> streets to my old house.

Yeah, that's more or less the trick.  I tried it with a location I'm less 
familiar with - the town my wife grew up in - and I ended up one state to 
the west.

Jim

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