Christopher Colombus Columbus was Italian using finances from Spain.
From spain I would say Africa although your better off using Suez canal and you will instantly be in Asia.
The driving distance from London to Cadiz, Spain is 1,435 road miles (using the A10) - about 23 hours driving time.
You could get a one-way ticket inside North America and also a hotel room using United FF miles.
Using 32 ft/sec2 as the acceleration due to gravity, it would be 0.0303.. miles per sec.
The road/driving distance is approximately 1,200 miles using the A75/AP-7 routes.
Using 238,900 miles as the distance to the moon the trip would take you about five months at 65 miles per hour. Now, imagine trying to reach the sun at 65 mph; the trip would take about 163 years.
Spain.
Spain is were my father lives.
The formula for calculating reach using a stack and reach calculator is: Reach Height x 0.53.
statistically it takes 500 billion pennies
Using the ruler on Google.earth I got 1688 air miles from the center of Riga, Latvia to the center of Madrid, Spain. The ruler takes the straightest path on a circle (the globe) and I am assuming that is the path the airlines would take.