I am building an "In-Doors Monument" as a personal gift for the City of Ottumwa. Designed to commemorate Ottumwa's historic status as the Video Game Capital of the World, the Monument focuses on the theme: "All Roads Lead to Ottumwa," and contains framed newspaper clippings as well as a list of 5,000 cities from around the world, showing their respective distances to Ottumwa.

Go to this link below to check this list to see if your city is already included. This is a growing list which, currently, is barely half-complete. Everybody is welcome to help create this Monument by submitting information found on Mapquest that can be added to the list of cities. By working together, we can have the Monument finished in time for its unveiling on November 11, 2011, as we celebrate Twin Galaxies' 30th Birthday.

http://videogamecapitaloftheworld.co...ad-to-ottumwa/

Could not work Mapquest, however another site says the distance between my city (Dunedin) and Ottumwa is 8473miles.

Originally Posted by Barra

Could not work Mapquest, however another site says the distance between my city (Dunedin) and Ottumwa is 8473miles.

This is going to be great....

Hey Barra you are only just closer than me (Johannesburg, South Africa 8932.93 miles)

The farthest city from Ottumwa in the world is Augusta, western australia at 10,861 miles.

Stroudsburg, PA
17 hrs 9 mins / 1048.99 miles

This was the time and distance my boys and I took to get there last year.

ps. "Hi Walter, sorry we didn't see you at funspot XIII" from EJ, Ellis, and Quinn Rowland

Ellis,

Good to hear from you. That was quite a drive from PA. I have now added Stroudsburg, PA.

Thanks for the help.

walter

Everybody should bring their newspaper clippings. In fact we are going to have a major display of newspaper clippings.

everybody should bring their stuff... see the news story on the front page of
videogamecapitaloftheworld.com

walter

Hey Walter!

In November, we'll be driving 977.61 miles from Jim Thorpe, PA to visit you!
I thought I would also include, my brother will be driving 975.5 miles from Lansford, PA. Not much of a difference, but since it's always been my dream to put Lansford on the map, I want to be sure it makes your list!

Looking forward to the "honeymoon" roadtrip! ;)