My mind has been blown. Again.

Over the past few years, I have had my mind blown only a few times. #1- when I found out that Australia is about the size (or was it bigger?) than the U.S. #2- when I found out that killer whales are dolphins and dolphins are whales.

The one I just learned is that Japan is waaaaaaaaay bigger than I thought! According to the CIA World Factbook (my favorite place to go for miscellaneous country info),  Japan is "slightly smaller than California." Wow. In my mind, it was maybe the size of New Jersey! No wonder my friend, who's in the opposite side of Japan (she's in the South and the quake was in the North or something like that) didn't feel the quake or have any issues. It is, after all, a long way from here to Napa (where I was this weekend, which is why I chose that city).

But yeah, who knew? My geography is apparently super bad.

http://virgil.org/dswo/fs/japantour/route.htm