The size of the world

It’s littler than we thought. Or maybe Central America is bigger than we thought. But we’ve gone 5021 miles since we left Asheville, and we’re done with the Central American portion of our trip. We’re in San Jose waiting for a boat to take us to Ecuador already. We think it’s about 10,000 miles through South America, from Ecuador to southern Brasil. Which means that South America is only about twice as long as Asheville ->San Jose, which is a lot littler than we thought. But then, the southernmost point of South America is S54*47’, making it about as far from the equator as Vancouver is. And Vancouver doesn’t seem so very far away. Hm. Geographical perspective.