> sort of takes it out of my thinking.. :)

Well it is abroad ;-) (I seem to remember that coming up in a previous discussion - has Mr President worked that out yet?)

I forgot about the curvature of the earth in calculations because it don't curve too much in 90 miles.

By the way Bill -
if your ladies had been looking at my 1744 map of the USA, they would have known that they only needed to go as far as the Grand Canyon to hit the sea.