Dweste, were you in a place where the mountains were on your left as you faced north, instead of the usual right?

I grew up in southern California, living there from the age of 5 to 30, and I always had the San Gabriel Mountains a few miles to the north of me, running east to west.

For several years afterward, when I was living in Eugene/Springfield, OR, I would get disoriented because the mountains were to the east of me. My internal compass always seemed to keep swinging, trying to make the mountains North, which made South, East, and turned North into West. What was really stupid was that it affected my night driving there, too, when I couldn't even SEE the mountains.

Sue, another space cadet