Ticket to Ride - Clarification

A year ago I had the pleasure of demonstrating product for the good guys
over at Days of Wonder at GenCon. As we rapidly approach this year's event,
they must have liked the job I did for them (or they've grown very
desperate!) and Mark Kaufmann asked me to come help out.

While I wasn't able to help them, I did point him to this blog / review
site. After he read my review of Ticket to Ride, he wanted to clarify
something:

"BTW: it was not Alan's geography that needed fixing. In the process of
setting the game at the turn of the century, we changed a couple of cities
in his original map - most obviously Duluth was a much bigger rail town than
Minneapolis/St. Paul, so we changed the name of the city. Unfortunately when
we went to adjust the map, it threw off number of sections between each city
in the design, so we had to leave the actual location where it was, rather
thanm move it closer to Lake Superior. By this time we'd already printed the
cards and couldn't change the name of the city so we were stuck with it. It
was an editorial fault, not Alan's."

There you go. I would suppose that explains the Helena / Billings issue in
Montana as well. But as I mentioned to Mark in a reply email, "If this is
the worst thing one can say about a game, then it must be a pretty good
game."

Words to live by...