Weekend Plans
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Driving to Sioux Falls for a second opinion.
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@Dashrender said:
Driving to Sioux Falls for a second opinion.
Sounds like fun. How far of a drive is that?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Driving to Sioux Falls for a second opinion.
Sounds like fun. How far of a drive is that?
2.5 hours one way. One benefit, Brazilian Grill for dinner... Yum!
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Speaking of Brazilian Grill, we should do that as group during SpiceWorld next year. It's right across the street.
But now that I think about it..would that exclude Scott and Dominica?
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@Dashrender said:
Speaking of Brazilian Grill, we should do that as group during SpiceWorld next year. It's right across the street.
But now that I think about it..would that exclude Scott and Dominica?
Likely, we've looked at that place and I don't believe that they have anything for us.
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@Dashrender said:
Speaking of Brazilian Grill, we should do that as group during SpiceWorld next year. It's right across the street.
If I had about three hours I could be in Brazil for a grill!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Speaking of Brazilian Grill, we should do that as group during SpiceWorld next year. It's right across the street.
If I had about three hours I could be in Brazil for a grill!
Did your time suddenly go somewhere
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Ha ha. Just checked the map, definitely three hours to Brasil. We are exactly halfway from Houston to Brasil.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Ha ha. Just checked the map, definitely three hours to Brasil. We are exactly halfway from Houston to Brasil.
Is that a flight or a car?
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Ha ha. Just checked the map, definitely three hours to Brasil. We are exactly halfway from Houston to Brasil.
Is that a flight or a car?
No roads connecting North and South America. Research the Darian bio gap.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Ha ha. Just checked the map, definitely three hours to Brasil. We are exactly halfway from Houston to Brasil.
Is that a flight or a car?
No roads connecting North and South America. Research the Darian bio gap.
Holy crap... who would have thought that there is a 100 mile stretch of no road between central and south America...
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@scottalanmiller said:
Research the Darian bio gap.
"The first all-land auto crossing was in 1985–87 by Loren Upton and Patty Mercier in a CJ-5 Jeep, taking 741 days to travel 125 miles (201 km). "
That's a nasty stretch of land there.
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@coliver said:
Holy crap... who would have thought that there is a 100 mile stretch of no road between central and south America...
Pretty crazy, huh? You have to have a special visa from the Panamanian government to even approach the zone, let alone enter it. It's a biodiversity gap to stop diseases from spreading between the continents.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Holy crap... who would have thought that there is a 100 mile stretch of no road between central and south America...
Pretty crazy, huh? You have to have a special visa from the Panamanian government to even approach the zone, let alone enter it. It's a biodiversity gap to stop diseases from spreading between the continents.
That makes sense.. I am assuming more for livestock than humans?
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To some degree, but really everything. They don't want people just passing back and forth. They want them going through customs and really carefully controlled gateways. The primary way through is a ferry to Columbia.
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@scottalanmiller said:
To some degree, but really everything. They don't want people just passing back and forth. They want them going through customs and really carefully controlled gateways. The primary way through is a ferry to Columbia.
I'm still kind of amazed that there isn't a road for 100 miles... it just boggles my mind. The reasons I understand but it seems like that would be a fairly important trade avenue.
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Agreed, You'd think they could build a road along the coast with checkpoints on both sides.
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@Dashrender said:
Agreed, You'd think they could build a road along the coast with checkpoints on both sides.
, but perhaps the risk is just to great.It isn't that big of an area (100 miles by 31 miles) so adding a road anywhere would destroy a significant amount of the rain forest.
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They could build it as a bridge, no destruction, at least to the rainforest.
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@Dashrender said:
They could build it as a bridge, no destruction, at least to the rainforest.
I really hope that someday they put in an elevated high speed rail link. That the forest is controlled by armed drug cartels makes that hard to do, though.
