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When I first went on the baltimore beltway, my father told me that the beltway went all around the city. I thought that he was refering to the grass area inbetween the inner loop and outer loop. I was conviced that that was baltimore. Which confused me a little since we lived in baltimore.

Joy

when i was little i vividly remember long arguments with my dad. I used to think that if you walked from shore to shore to shore and kept on going you could walk your way around the world.I cant belive i used to belive that

jenny

When I was six, I under the impression Egypt was a fictional place. Boy was I surprised when I was playing with a globe and found out that Egypt was real country.

Anon

I live in oregon and just to the north is a city called camas, which has a paper factory that is very stinky. when visiting my grandma we would have to pass it, and my parents would say "smells like the camas plant"....so i was under the impression that camas was an actual stinky plant that the city was named after. It wasn't till i was an adult that i found out - there is no stinky camas plant other than the factory

A

I used to believe that Canada was a territory of the U.S. and was one big forest.

Anon

I used to go on holiday with my family to Cornwall every year, and always thought it was a single town called Cormorl.

Anon

When I was around 7or 8, I had this urge to travel and go out on my own little adventure... I had heard in an old movie that you could dig to China... so that is what I tried to do, only I couldnt lift a shovel very well, so I used a tablespoon to start my digging. When I saw that this was taking too long, I took a trashbag outside and tried to "catch the wind" in it, so that it would lift me up and I could fly there.

Desiree

I remember asking my dad what state MichiganStateUniversity was in? Yes, I lived in Michigan but thought that when you went away to school you went out of state even if it was a state college!

Anon

I live in NY. Me and my older sister used to think that FL was right over the mountains seeing as you can't see whats over them. And now my younger cousin thinks that too.

Katie

I live in washington state, and I used to believe I lived near a holy place. I used to think bellingham, wa, was bethlaham (spelling)

Amanda

I grew up in southern North Carolina, about as close as one can get in North Carolina to the towns of Camden and Florence in South Carolina. Long before I'd ever been to Camden or Florence or places in between, I had recurrent dreams about traveling from Camden to Florence and in my deams, the route between the two always passed among large mountains. By the time I actually travelled from Camden to Florence, I had learned enough to not really expect substantial mountains, but still I was somewhat disappointed at how totally flat that area turned out to be. Since then, I've learned to take some solace in the fact that somewhere north of there, between the route from Camden to Florence and the North Carolina line, there are some interesting rocky areas, hills, and even a small "mountain", including Forty Acre Rock, the Sandhills, and Sugarloaf Mountain.

Wayne

When I was about 5, my family moved from California to Colorado. While there, I wondered where the beach was. It wasn't until later that I found out that Colorado was a landlocked state.

Toujin

when i was little i thought that Asia was a little country not a whole continiet (i thought that part of the world was part of europe)...........you can imagin my surprise in 10TH GRADE GEOGRAPHY when i finally learned the truth

silly bee-owch!

I live in Arkansas, and at my preschool, there was a US map hanging on the wall. My state was green and the trees are green. Texas was purple.. my family and I went on a vacation to TX, and I asked my mom, "why aren't the trees purple?" I thought that colored map was what the US looked like from a space ship!

Sydney

I used to believe that Arkansas was pronounced "Ar-CAN-sas," not "AR-can-saw."

Ex: "Mommy, if this state is Kansas, why isn't this state Ar-kansas? It doesn't make sense."
"It just is sweetie."
"Maps are hard."

Jonathan

I used to believe that Washington D.C. was in Washington and that the the United States was the entire world and there were no other countries.

Missa

I used to believe that everything in Japan was really dark and had a red tone. I'm not sure why, but I think maybe I saw a martial arts movie that had a dark setting or something.

Anon

When I was little, I used to believe that Illinois (where I lived) was a country

Anon

When I was about five or six,I believed that Las Vegas was its own country. Somehow,when I was seven I thought that it was the capital of California. I was completley confused when I found out that Las Vegas was , in fact , in Nevada.

KC

Up until I was about ten, I thought my local newspaper was distributed around the world. I thought it was just a coincidence that my town was always mentioned. I was in total shock when I saw a different newspaper at my grandma's house. What a life-changing moment.

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