Category: Miscellaneous
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A Two Year Long Geo-Trivia Discussion
I check my web logs frequently. I do this for several reasons but mainly to let me know which topics interest the audience. Then I use it to research and design more pages that people will actually want to read. Let’s Be Passive-Aggressive It also lets me stay a step ahead of the spammers, scammers…
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The Hottest I’ve Ever Been in my Life
Good lord, it’s hot in Phoenix, Arizona today. I set a personal temperature record: 111 degrees Fahrenheit (44 degrees Celsius). I could sense heat radiating off my shirt against my skin whenever I walked into the shade. My eyeballs turned to charcoal glowing in a grill, as Mother Nature blasted a blowdryer in my face,…
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(I’ve Never Been to) Greenland
No, I’ve never been to Greenland but I’d love to go there someday. A few years ago I was flying between the North America continent and Iceland. The Iceland trip involved great places like Reykjavík, Landmannalaugar and the Fjallabak Nature Reserve, but I digress. From Above Anyway, the pilot came onto the intercom. He informed…
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Wisconsin Wrap-Up
I’ve returned from my trip to Wisconsin with tons of new material for the website. I already provided a preview of some of these on the Twelve Mile Circle (this blog). In addition, you can expect more detailed write-ups to start appearing on the permanent site over the next few days and weeks. Oddities that…
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7 Uninhabited Islands
I get emails from time-to-time. Some ask me to check out a blog and provide a link if I find the content interesting. That’s the case today, and the subject is 7 Beautiful But Completely Uninhabited Islands And Archipelagos. It comes from a commercial website for a travel company called ProTraveller. I don’t know anything…
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Most County Borders
Quite awhile ago when the Twelve Mile Circle was still young I featured a series of posts focusing on the counties with the fewest neighboring counties. Now I’ve finally gotten around to the flip side of that observation. So what county has the most county borders? I’ve done quite a lot of checking and quite…
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GeoBee Challenge
Cape Trafalgar is to Spain as Cape Comorin is to WHAT? (India) I think most people are probably familiar with the concept of a Spelling Bee. Of course it’s possible to extend the same format to geography. Appropriately enough, the National Geographic Society has done just that and not surprisingly they’ve called it the National…
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State of the Circle
It’s difficult for me to believe, but I just hit the six month point with Twelve Mile Circle. So I thought I would take a moment to look back at the site by reviewing some highlights. Maybe I’ll even reflecting briefly upon the path that lead to this point. I wasn’t sure I’d last even…
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Twelve Mile, Indiana
It all started when I saw a query for “Twelve Mile Indiana” recorded in my web access logs. That’s not too strange. After all, this is Twelve Mile Circle. Someone typed the name of an obscure farm town into a search engine and out popped my site. That’s plausible. Misdirected links land here all the…
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My Favorite Travel Tip
I’ve been traveling recently and expect to go out on a few more trips this summer. Like many business travelers, I’ve developed a few tips for the road over the years. They’re little secrets that make life away from home more bearable. Geography topics on Twelve Mile Circle sometimes bleed into other topics that interest…