Re: What's my altitude?

Brettster wrote:
> On May 4, 3:37 pm, "John Dean" <john-d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Retrace your route on Google Earth. There's an 'elev' entry at the
>> bottom of the screen.
>
> Thank you so much, John! Calculating that way, it seems I am climbing
> about 107 feet total, in addition to walking 1.75 miles to the
> library.
>
> What is 107 feet, roughly? About the height of a 10-story building?

It's an oversize centipede. Or the kind of building where you could get
away 
with giving the super a bar of chocolate instead of a barometer. The 
distance Carl Lewis would have covered in about 3 seconds. But, yeah,
about 
10 - 12 stories
-- 
John Dean
Oxford