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[Tom Zurinskas]

He could have saved some time going coast to coast from Daytona to Tampa.

In Florida folks often say they're going to the "west coast," meaning gulf coast of FL.



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> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:35:44 -0500
> From: laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
> Subject: Re: de Tocqueville; was Re: ~ (UNCLASSIFIED)
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> At 1:11 PM -0600 2/23/09, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>>A map of de Tocqueville's travels:
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>>http://www.tocqueville.org/travel.htm
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> So he did travel coast to coast! (I can prove it; I have a song on
> my iTunes called "Gulf Coast Highway", in two different covers. So
> it must be a coast.)
>
> LH
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>>> I agree he didn't make it coast to coast but did make it at least as
>>> far
>>> west as Michigan.
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>>> For the record, when de Tocqueville visited the US, there was no
>>> "coast to coast" for the country. I don't think he left the eastern
>>> seaboard.
>>>
>>> Barbara Need
>>>
>>> On 21 Feb 2009, at 10:00 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alexis De Tocqueville toured the USA and marveled at the fact that
>>>> one could go coast to coast speaking one language and be
>>>> understood. Let's extend that worldwide.
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