Posted on 11/09/2010 1:36:16 PM PST by big black dog
Go to Google Maps.
Ask for directions from Los Angeles to Tokyo.
See answers given in steps 13 and 28.
Saw this on facebook a week ago...funny stuff. Need a hell of a tank on the jet ski.
Yup. Funny stuff.
It’s humor. Google does this a lot.
If you try to get directions from Japan to China, Google Maps will suggest that you jet ski across the relevant body of water.
Do the one from Japan to China...I didn’t do the Cali to Tokyo before...that is funny...Kayak. The one from Japan to China tells you to jet ski to China.
I ain’t gonna’ do it ... what’s it say?
Yes. Their transoceanic directions have included stuff like that for at least 2 years. Probably because they know anybody asking for directions across an ocean is bored and $%^&ing with them.
They’ve done that for a while. They used say swim 3,000 miles (or so) for trips between the US and Europe.
Driving directions to Tokyo, Japan
35 days 3 hoursI-5 N
7,870 mi
This route has tolls.- more info »
Los Angeles, CA
1. Head northwest on W 1st St toward S Spring St 0.1 mi
2. Turn right at the 2nd cross street onto N Broadway 0.4 mi
3. Turn right to merge onto US-101 N toward I-110 N 10.4 mi
4. Slight left at CA-170 N/Hollywood Fwy (signs for Sacramento) 6.0 mi
5. Take exit 11B to merge onto I-5 N toward Sacramento
Passing through Oregon
Entering Washington 1,122 mi
6. Take exit 169 for NE 45th St 0.3 mi
7. Slight left at 7th Ave NE 262 ft
8. Take the 1st left onto NE 45th St 0.7 mi
9. Turn left at Wallingford Ave N 0.9 mi
10. Turn right at N 34th St 292 ft
11. Take the 1st left onto Densmore Ave N 436 ft
12. Turn right at N Northlake Way 285 ft
13. Kayak across the Pacific Ocean
Entering Hawaii 2,756 mi
14. Continue straight 0.1 mi
15. Turn left at Kuilima Dr 0.5 mi
16. Take the 3rd right onto HI-83 W 12.4 mi
17. Continue straight onto HI-99 S/Kamehameha Hwy 6.5 mi
18. Slight left at HI-80 S/Kamehameha Hwy
Continue to follow Kamehameha Hwy 2.1 mi
19. Take the ramp onto I-H-2 S 8.1 mi
20. Merge onto I-H-1 E 4.7 mi
21. Take exit 13B toward Halawa Hts. Stadium 0.3 mi
22. Merge onto I-H-201 E 4.1 mi
23. Merge onto I-H-1 E
If you avoid the toll roads it only takes 1 hour more to get there.
35 days to kayak across the Pacific - I wonder what ‘paddle per hour’ they are basing this on...
I was wondering why I have to drive all the way to the state of Washington before I can start kayaking.
Google Australia once put up an April 1st headline that you could get the news a day early by subscribing to their new service. That was a good one, too. (Lot’s of people went for it as noted by the hits on the fake site they set up)
No but I’ve been on the Kamehameha Highway during rush hour. I have also survived a trip down the Pali Hwy with no brakes. If the light had been red at the bottom we would have been killed.
Google Earth says to take a kayak. Estimates trip will take 35 days.
Switched to maps.bing.com last year and haven’t looked back.
Curious indeed. Why they want you to kayak from north Seattle is strange to say the least. You should drive to Port Angeles and start from the Dungeness Spit.
IMHO :>)
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