I’m on vacation. Yes, I know, some people ask: How can you be on vacation when you’re retired? Well, trust me, pre-retirees and other people still working, and as my fellow retirees can attest . . . you can.

     I was in Florida for a week or so, then met up with my wife for a few more days in Florida, and then we started driving. I won’t say how far we drove, because, as a test of your geography skills, you can try to figure out where we are from the directional signs below.

     In case you can’t read the sign, we are 619 miles from Cleveland, and 4270 miles from Amsterdam. I have not verified these distances, but I’m pretty sure they are reasonably accurate.

     We’re 765 miles from Toledo — see, I told you a lot of people from Ohio come here — and 832 miles from Ann Arbor, Michigan. We’re also 382 miles from Knoxville, Tennessee. And for you Anglophiles, we are 6548 miles from London, England. And then a dead giveaway, the arrow points south to Savannah, Georgia, which is 113 miles down the coast.

Tom Lashnits Writer, Blogger