People also have a good if rather immature laugh at the expense of Gaylord, which has precisely two claims to fame: being exactly halfway between the North Pole and Equator (at 45 degrees north) and being the smallest city in the US with a Roman Catholic cathedral.
Double subverted when it turns out he really had injected himself a precisely timed poison, intending to die the next morning at exactly the right time to save his father in the past.
Each jump went precisely X distance in a single direction, so, of course, an accurate map and compass are necessary to get anywhere that's not exactly X away.