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Let’s take an Imaginary trip!

We leave Illinois and we want to go to Indiana.  In what direction should we go?

From Indiana, we decide to visit a part of New England; Maine in particular.  In what direction should we head?

We are in Maine right now, and we now want to take a jaunt to Pennsylvania, in what direction should we head?

From Pennsylvania, since we’ve always to visit North Carolina, in what direction should we go?

We're in North Carolina now and someone tells us "Tennessee is beautiful at this time of year."  We say "great!" and head out.  In what direction do we travel?

We get to talking about Abraham Lincoln and someone says let's visit his birthplace in Kentucky.  We're in Tennessee, in what direction do we travel to reach his birthplace?

Now, going to Door County in Wisconsin sounds good.  In what direction do we go?

From Wisconsin, we really got a hankering to visit a beautiful part of the country called Montana.  In what direction should we head?

Someone said, let's use numbers and not names!  What If we wanted to go from Montana to about 43 latitude and 115 longitude, what state would we end up in? So we did that and went there.  Where did we end up?

From there we went to 30 Latitude and 90 Longitude, where did we end up?

From there we go to 33 N latitude and about 80 W longitude.  Where did we drive to?  
    
We watched a nature program on TV and decided to go from South Carolina to the capitol of Texas.  What direction will we go and in what city will we end up?

Now, let's go home!





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