This isn't the first time Sherman and Hawthorne the crab have headed north. They did it before in the summer of 2007 when Hawthorne found an alaskan king she-crab on the internet and fell in love. They went to visit her, but when he found out that she was massively huge he beat a hasty retreat. What I don't understand is how the north pole is only 11,473 miles away, but the Bering Strait is 14,326 miles away. 
What sort of tropical lagoon could possibly match those directions? But a bigger problem is that 11,473 miles south of the North Pole is... Antarctica. The only clear, straight-shot oceanic path from the south to the North Pole goes through the Bering Strait. So, a ring skirting around the southern continent that would place Sherman's Lagoon somewhere in the Ross Sea, a the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf (or what's left of it). No wonder Thornton the polar bear (perpetually "hibernating" in Sherman's Lagoon) feels so at home there. But THAT's not even the biggest problem...Nowhere is 14,326 miles due south of the Bering Strait. The maximum South to North distance, from the South Pole to the North Pole, is 12,430 miles. After that one would be traveling south again.
So those Mapquest directions don't work at all, much less for trying to triangulate the actual location of Sherman's Lagoon.
.... also, there is no "I-70 North". US interstates are given even numbers when they run North-South and even numbers when they run East-West. I-70 runs East-West, so there isn't an "I-70 North"... well at least not in the US. There is one in Columbia, but it's an entirely land-locked road. And the I-70 in the US has one terminus in the middle of nowhere in Utah, and the other end in Baltimore, MD, which I suppose counts as a coastal town with a lagoon.... but it's not tropical and doesn't sport the palm trees that are often depicted.
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