I struggled a little to find a suitable title for this thread and hope my choice jells with most.
I have always had a good knowledge of where I am and which way I am going. If you were to ask me which way was North, and the direction to and how far we are from some location, I am confident I would be able to tell you with reasonable accuracy. I've been surprised to find how little of this sense some others have.
Showing a friend around on a bike ride in Thailand, I took him to a doi (small limestone mountain) that was quite spectacular, and 1 -2 weeks later another doi that was also notable. He asked: "Is this the same doi we went to the other day?"
The first doi was about 10 km SE of Chiang Rai and the second 5 km NW of Chiang Rai!
Somewhat surprised at his lack of awareness of where he was, I mentioned I sometimes get disorientated because of the Sun swinging around to the South rather than the North as it does in the Southern hemisphere where I came from. "I never thought of that." He said. "Does the Sun rise in the East and set in the West there also?"
I almost fell off my bike!
I have always had a good knowledge of where I am and which way I am going. If you were to ask me which way was North, and the direction to and how far we are from some location, I am confident I would be able to tell you with reasonable accuracy. I've been surprised to find how little of this sense some others have.
Showing a friend around on a bike ride in Thailand, I took him to a doi (small limestone mountain) that was quite spectacular, and 1 -2 weeks later another doi that was also notable. He asked: "Is this the same doi we went to the other day?"
The first doi was about 10 km SE of Chiang Rai and the second 5 km NW of Chiang Rai!
Somewhat surprised at his lack of awareness of where he was, I mentioned I sometimes get disorientated because of the Sun swinging around to the South rather than the North as it does in the Southern hemisphere where I came from. "I never thought of that." He said. "Does the Sun rise in the East and set in the West there also?"
I almost fell off my bike!
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