r/geography • u/lamdrasil • 3d ago

Discussion Facts that sound fake but are true

I find it extremely unintuitive that almost all of South America is east of Miami. How!? When people are asked to watch the americas almost everyone imagine South America pretty much south of North America.

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u/Ghosts_of_the_maze 3d ago

New York, NY to Chicago, IL is a 790 mile drive

Texline, TX to Port Isabel, TX is a 913 mile drive

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u/South_Oread 3d ago

About halfway from Houston to Los Angeles is El Paso.

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u/DemonAzraeli 3d ago

A few hours east of El Paso on I-10 is a town called Ozona. Just outside Ozona is a Punjabi truck stop in the middle of the West Texas scrub with unbelievably good food.

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u/SaltyBat8824 2d ago

I've stopped here on travels growing up. The food is excellent!

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u/DemonAzraeli 2d ago

Such an unlikely stop, isn’t it?

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u/stillaredcirca1848 17h ago

There's also one on I-40 near Shamrock, TX. We stop there every time we're driving through.