Nearby Olympic Sites
Last week, during the Falcons game, they showed an overhead view of the nearby Olympic plaza. I realized that I'd never visited an Olympic site before and that I'd really like to. It would be cool to see the infrastructure and to see what's being commemorated. What would be the easiest place to do that? I told the FP Gal and we tried to figure out which site would be closest to us. I thought it might be Calgary. She mentioned Lake Placid. I said that Salt Lake City would probably be in the mix. I tried to Google it but Google was having problems so I put it on a mental shelf and moved on. The next day I looked up the results. Per Google, from my home location: Lake Placid, NY is 1250 miles away. Salt Lake City, UT is 1238 miles away. Calgary, up in Canada, is 1201 miles away. That's pretty amazing. Three sites, chosen for their Olympic pasts, are almost equidistant from us. Less than a 5% difference between the extremes. Pretty crazy. Only after figuring this ...