We quickly learned that we had overestimated everything: the ability of our vehicle, the distance we could travel in a day, the amount of money we needed and our desire to be away from home.
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Our new maps recognized that people often think ofdistance in terms oftravel times, yet most maps don't provide this information.
My guide drove like a man possessed, crashing through ditches and racing across the plains, aware of the distance we had to travel and the speed of the setting sun.
Mr. Chiasson's family plans to relocate from Manhattan to a community hopefully within easy traveldistanceof where he ultimately serves his sentence, his lawyers said.