While messing around with Google Maps’s new edit feature, I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to find that my hometown got an updated set of satellite images. Sweet! In the past you couldn’t really get past a blurry town-level view of the area. Now you can zoom in almost all the way, so you too can explore from above all the momentous sites from my childhood including:
- The house I grew up in. Notice the awesome-for-exploring forest in the backyard.
- Carlisle High School. Go Thundering Herd!
- The US Army War College. The only place in town where you’ll get pulled over for “doing 6 in a 5 m.p.h. zone.”
- and the town square. You can almost see the rednecks sitting on the benches!
Check out these woods:
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The house I grew up [my mom's house still] is in the center. In between it and the road is a lake, roughly olympic-pool sized. Behind the house are army bunkers and trenches [my backyard neighbor was a military nut and dug foxholes and built bunkers for his kid, it's pretty crazy and was a ton of fun when I was young!]. Zoom out a little, and to the ‘left’ of the house is about six square miles of woods and swamp. When I was about 8, some of my friends (also
wandered through the woods for a whole day and got lost. The police used a helicopter to find them.
Our center of town is here:
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It features a church (the huge building with parking lot), the town hall (same corner as the church, much smaller building), a farm (southwest corner), and a cemetary (northeast corner. The intersection itself is a four-way stop sign. Follow Carranza Road to the south and east, and you’ll find only pine forest, as well as my town’s “claim to fame” — the crash site of Emilio Carranza, Mexico’s finest aviator who crashed and died there.
For some reason, people have the impression that new jersey is an overpopulated suburb of new york city. I’ve never understood it… ;-).
Also, hah, I’ve driven by your time a bunch of times on my way to west virginia. Amazing…
Augh, your blog swallowed my first awesome comment. Perhaps it was too large and had too many links. Ohwell.