How far to you need to go ...

[kinzel]

How far do you need to go to drive into another country?

I can go northwest for 67 miles ... and be in Canada.

I can go north 110 miles and cross the border into Canada.

Or I can go due East and get to ... Canada ... in around 147 miles.

It takes me 104 miles driving West to reach the US, in the form of New Hampshire.


Meanwhile, the maple on the corner of the property is now about 7 feet tall. This is the one that was run over many times by the Department (of the Interior?) of Environmental Protection while they were cleaning the gas out of our subsurface. Go, tree!

On the flower note ... progress. We have as many as seventy day lily blossoms this year...and given my lack of seasonal travel plans, I may not miss any of them.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Mainers have long referred to "The Boston States" as something separate and distinct from their native territory.

North -- Canada. West -- Canada. East -- Canada. South -- Wet. We have to go south-by-southwest to connect to anything US, and then it's New Bloody Hampshire...

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Sure, but aren't you starting in the US? It sounds as if Mainers aren't quite sure about that :-)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

We try hard to forget it ... and to be forgotten by it.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Let's talk alphabet:

Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts

Which of these three states is abbreviated MA?
...as many people *don't know* that's Massachusetts.

That affects a lot of lives; but I'd say there were Congressional initiatives involved to get the current MA higher in the pecking order....

In most of the US, Canadian money is not accepted in stores. In some parts of Maine, money is money. For awhile some soda machines in Old Orchard Beach were rigged to take Canadian coins... might still be the case. There are times that the motel we usually stay at in OOB is about 1/3 Mainer occupied, 1/3 Canadian occupied, and 1/3 from the rest of the US, chiefly Mass, CT, NY and NJ.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Canadian money? Hey, when half our state is owned by J. D. Irving*, beggars can't be choosers...

*HQ in New Brunswick, for you folks From Away.

[magda-vogelsang.livejournal.com]

Stores around here generally take canadian change (quarter or smaller) without any problem, but not paper money, loonies or toonies.