that's because those tapes will travel from one pole to another one of this world! [almost half earth's circumference]. i wonder where they are right now... (:
Gar, then come back, I miss you too! I feel as though seeing you only twice a year is woefully inadequate.
In a just world, you and I would be making enough money from doing the shit we love to buy tickets for solar-powered aero-yacht flights that go back and forth across this big dumb land mass.