A new personal record -- four border crossings in just four hours.
First a little geography. It starts with The Louisiana Purchase, The Treaty of Paris, The Oregon Treaty and The Mexican American War.
The net is that a not quite straight line is drawn at not quite the 49th parallel from Boundary Bay Washington to Lake of the Woods Minnesota. This leaves two interesting artifacts: Point Roberts WA and The Northwest Angle MN - both parts of the United States but disjoint and more properly Canadian.
OK, how do cross four times in an afternoon?
1) Bellingham to Point Roberts - 2 crossings.
2) Point Roberts to Bellingham - 2 crossings,
My next challenge is to visit the Northwest Angle.
drk
CREDIT: A Not-So-Straight Story, NYT. November 28, 2011
