My daughter helps to book the hotel, and she books a hotel close to our intended destination. The problem is we have a meeting point that turns out to be about 25 miles from the destination... backward.
This reality doesn't make sense to either of us. How can we be passing our meeting point yet closer to our destination but not overshooting it, but still we are about 20 miles away from each (the meeting point and the final point). I cannot wrap my head around it at all.
Finally, I make the map on the computer really small yet still big enough to see the various colored routes.
Eureka!
Yes, we are geometrically challenged when it comes to map reading. Apparently our trip is a giant L. Our hotel in at the lower left (the elbow of the L). We are going to the top point (our destination), but our meeting point is back at the bottom right of the L (a part of the highway we're already passing by to get to out hotel ... which is closer to the destination).
Either we cannot read a map, or the people at the destination think they're doing us a favor by making the meeting point east of our hotel when we are coming from the east. Of course, they have no idea which hotel we've booked, which is west of where they expected us to be east of the destination, which is north of either point, both of which are south and in a straight line to each other, while C is perpendicular to B but not to A, which is more of a quadrant change on the map graph.
See? it's not just we who are geometrically map-challenged. You're confused, as well, right? I'm used to the whole "straight line from here to there" thing, but I guess the mountains and rivers separating us from A to B to C (hence the giant L) could confuse anyone. Or, maybe it really is just us, which wouldn't be a surprise at all, either.
By the way: Who's on first...
