> it said "You will travel across North America, and onto the Atlantic Ocean. Eventually, you will hit another country."
Yes, but it didn't say that country would be the first one you would hit. Of course the intended answer of the article was that you would travel along a great circle and would not hit Canada prior to hitting the Atlantic Ocean. But when the article talked about France, it was assuming that you were thinking of traveling along a curve of constant latitude instead. And if you do that, as I said, you will hit Canada before you hit the Atlantic Ocean. And if the author of the article is going to be pedantic enough to say the reader should have thought of great circles, I'm going to turn that right back on him and say he should have thought of Canada when talking about a curve of constant latitude, and should have recognized that his wording is perfectly consistent with that answer.
