I left the building today!
(And if you aren’t old enough to follow that – it is perfectly fine…)
As I mentioned, this building is directly across the street from the Pacific Ocean. There is a park, sidewalk, stretch of beach – just what you would expect. The sidewalk has painted distance markers ever 50 meters just in case it is important to you to know where you are or how far you have gone. We entered at the 5000 meter mark heading north. And yes, I am sure of my direction!
Walking for a bit, I detoured to check out the sand –
which is extremely fine to the point of powdery and white enough to blind you if the sun is at the perfect angle. There are boats in the water, some drifting at anchor with the tide. On our return –
you can see the dozens upon dozens of high rises lining the coast (and yes, this is south of my current location. Mind you, this is not a city center, but some commercial, a lot of condos with holiday rentals mixed in.
As Bruce reminded me (and I went and looked it up) geography is taught off Mercator projections of the earth. These original flat maps hugely distorted areas at the extremes of the poles. And then, as I was kindly provided – the map as currently relevant to me…
