The subject for today is we are both in Tampa, I travel West and you travel East…at the same rate…where do we meet and what day and time would it be for both of us?

Well the math geek in me says there is not enough information in this word problem.  For example:

1. Are we travelling in opposite directions or towards each other?
2. How far away are we from each other in Tampa?
3. What day and time is it when we start?
4. Are we walking or driving?
5. How fast are we walking or driving?

If we are travelling in opposite directions and we are the average human being then we are talking years until we eventually meet.  But let’s have some fun and pretend we are super humans.  At the equator, the Earth is 24,901 miles in circumference.  So if we are walking then we would be going through many shoes and we would have to swim.  Oh but wait we are super humans so we can walk on water.  According to “Thee Almighty Google” the average person walks about 3.1 miles per hour, so that is about 8,033 hours.  If we walked nonstop and never stopped to eat or pee or sleep we would see each other in about 335 days.  Not bad, we would see each other in less than a year.  Well we may not see each other because clearly we would be so thin from all that walking.

Now let’s imagine we have a car that drives in water as well.  Let’s say we drive nonstop at 60 miles per hour then we would be at about 415 hours.  So we would see each other in about 17 days.

If meeting doesn’t have to be physical then we could meet using technology all day/all night whenever you we want.  We could Skype, FaceTime, heck we could setup internet cameras and follow each other’s every move…but that might just be a little weird haha

If we are walking towards each other then it all depends on where the starting location is.  If we are in the same room then we don’t even have to walk.  Our eyes just need to travel towards each other.  Technology could be used in this situation as well but that would make us the laziest human beings on earth!

Maybe I completely missed this riddle presented to me but I conclude that not enough information was provided.

Boy all that super human walking was exhausting…