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You feel trapped by bordering rivers? You live on an ISLAND!!
Lol, I glad I'm not the only one that wanted to point that out. I think this second time in one of their reactions where they forgotten, they live on an Island. Whether it is Jersey or England.
And a small one, at that!
Great point. I was too busy thinking how odd it was that he hadn’t heard of bridges to clock that.
To be fair, it *is* Iowa, though.
LoL Islanders. 😅😅
When I was in the Army I was stationed at Fort Campbell & the Kentucky Tennessee state lines run right through my barracks. If you went past the water cooler in the center of the hall you were in a different state. You just have to deal with it.
He was incorrect when he was talking about Texarkana - Arkansas does has state income tax, Texas does not. Crater Lake is a caldera, which blew about 7,700 years ago. If you want to visit it and drive around it, July and August are the only months when it is clear - I went in late June and they hadn't yet cleared the 23 feet of snow that was on the east side of the lake.
Yeah he got that conflated
The one about texarkana is true i lived there on the Arkansas side i didnt pay state taxes.
@@shrapnelslurpee Arkansas does have a state income tax, Texas does not. How did you manage to get away without paying state income tax??!!
@@xo2quilt idk i was told i didnt have to pay. So i just left it alone.
@@xo2quilt There is a little known state law in Arkansas such that people living in Texarkana Arkansas don’t have to pay state income taxes. The purpose is to keep everyone on the Arkansas side from moving to the Texas side
Our own geographical oddity is Mount Paektu, an active stratovolcano on our border with China. Scientists are still confused about how the volcano formed because it's relatively distant from a plate boundary. It's considered the spiritual origin of the Korean people, as according to legend it's where Dangun (founder of the first Korean kingdom) descended from heaven. It's also where the second most powerful eruption in recorded history occurred in 946. Because of its spiritual significance, many of our citizens make a pilgrimage there every year. Former President of the South Moon Jae-in even fulfilled his dream of climbing it in 2018 where we held hands at the top.
I'm in Kansas and both of my boys live overseas, the oldest in Europe and the youngest is in S Korea. They are actually closer to each other than either one of them are to me lol
I live in Oklahoma City my family lives in Texas 2 sister's Abilene 1 Houston dad in Dallas, I live closer to my dad than my sister's
That's awesome! Mainly because my dad was military and we lived in Oklahoma, Europe and he lived in Korea.
What will also blow your mind is that it takes over 12.5 hours to drive across Texas from East to West and 13 hours from farthest south to North... and this is just 1 State.
I think this is why most of us Americans don't own a passport, if you were to drive 13hrs south from London you would be in a completely different country with a foreign language.
I went to university up north and my best friend came to visit me in Houston for a New Orleans road trip. After driving 45 min east he’s like okay where’s the state line??? We hadn’t made it Beaumont yet. 🤣
@@BenShapirosLowerLip We never needed it unless you flew! Used to cross into Mexico and Canada with my ID In the car. And also I love your profile name lol
I drove from California to Florida on I-10. It seemed I'd never get out of Texas. 😀
@@BenShapirosLowerLip No kidding. There are 11 states bigger than the UK. Two adjacent counties in my home state of California, put together, are as large as Scotland. It takes more than an afternoon drive to get to another country in many parts of the USA.
Also, there is a town in Vermont that is separated from another town in Quebec, Canada by only a city street, Derby Line, Vermont and Stansted, Quebec. There is a library that is on the US/Canada border in those two cities. If anyone wants to go in there, people in the US have to go in and out one side, and people in Canada have to go in a door on the other side, but can roam freely anywhere inside the library. I will not even get into the craziness of crossing the street as far as the border goes, as it is insane!
There is a show called Lone Star Law. One episode showed game wardens from both Texas and Oklahoma working Lake Texoma.
Given that he mentioned Texarkana, Texas and Arkansas, I'm a bit surprised he didn't mention the 4-corners area, where you can be in 4 different states at the same time.
I believe he did in an earlier installment of his "Oddities of U.S. Geography" series.
What caught me off guard on that 1 is he said Texas had a state income tax but we don't. But the 4 corners would have been a good one as well
Fun fact: Kings and Queens Counties got their names when after the English took control from the Dutch in 1664, they named Kings County after King Charles II in 1683 while they named Queens County after his wife, Queen Catherine of Braganza
I live on Long Island and I consider it to be its own geographical oddity because while it looks like an island and is called an island, it's technically/legally not an island. This is because of the US vs Maine Supreme Court case which was about whether the states or the federal government controlled the Long Island and Block Island Sounds. The states wanted to regulate shipping and commerce, but to determine if they could, the Supreme Court had to determine if Long Island was an island or not. If it was, federal government controlled the waters. If it wasn't, states' rights. They concluded that because the East River on Long Island's western side isn't actually a natural river but rather a tidal strait that humans widened so ships could have safe passage, Long Island is a peninsula.
you live on long island L
That’s… sound reasoning!
The Supreme Court can call it anything they want. But its islandness smacks you right in the face anytime you try to leave it on a Friday. 😲
Most rivers have bridges over them so you wouldn't be "trapped" by a bordering River.
I mean if you were in Walking Dead.. then maybe. lol
They live on an island
He forgot the city of Bristol. City is both Tennessee and Virginia, separated by double yellow line on state street.
Lake Tahoe is in California and Nevada. You know what state you're in because you can gamble in Nevada but not in California.
Also mesquite, it’s in both Nevada and Arizona
Wendover NV and Wendover UT, and Kansas City KS, and Kansas City MO.
He is also wrong about Texarkana AR not paying State income taxes, but said you do in TX. Texas does not have State income taxes either.
@@TDAWG80853 Arkansas does have state income tax.
@@oscarlinebaugh8930 true, unless you live in the city limits of Texarkana. That’s why it’s different. It’s one city in 2 states as opposed to Bristol where tax jurisdiction is split. It’s treated the same.
In Fairbanks, Alaska, the sun is up for 20 to 22 hours per day in most of June and July. Some days the sun rises around the 3am hour and sets around 12:30am to 1am, and never getting fully dark several days since the sun is just below the horizon during those days with sunsets. Longest day of the year, the sun rises at 2:57am and sets at 12:47am the next day, and comes back up just over two hours later. Vice versa with winter, dark 20 to 22 hours per day.
I saw a time lapse of sunrise to sunset near or at the winter solstice in Fairbanks. The sun pops up so one naturally thinks the camera is pointing eastish but the sun just pops up, does a little loop on the horizon and sets again realizing the camera is pointing south. That's a little weird to see for someone who lives in the lower 48.
"Road Trip"...
I had a compelling reason in May to travel from Bremerton, Washington to Zeeland, Michigan in a hurry - about 2400 miles (3800km).
I left on short notice on a Sunday evening and arrived on Wednesday afternoon.
I stopped in The Dalles, Oregon; Rock Springs, Wyoming; and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
(I do not recommend that pace to anyone - though I am sure there are those who have gone further, faster.)
On my way home... I took my time, and I took about a week, taking smaller roads.
But especially in the Western US, 1,000 miles (1600 KM) might be a trip to "go see Grandma".
Crater lake also has one of the highest clarity levels in the world, while holding the top spot for North America.
I live in Kentucky and I fish there in that spot often. It's called Land Between The Lakes and it's gorgeous.
Patty’s settlement. I love their bread and strawberry butter. We took my kids there on vacation. As an adult my son had a conference at land between the lakes. Ate at patty’s settlement and sent pic to see if I knew where he was
Texarkana is actually named for three states. The first three letters for Texas, the next three letters for Arkansas, and the last three letters for Louisiana. When the railroad was first brought into Texarkana the railroad surveyor miscalculated how far away Louisiana was from the city, thinking Louisiana was only a few miles away when in fact it was 35 miles away. Apparently, he was the one who named the city.
I live in Arkansas and have been to Texarkana several times. Another funny thing about it is that there is no roads into it from the arkansas side that doesn't cross over Into texas at some point. Every time I've gone we entered Texas for about 5 minutes before the road curved back Into arkansas
Also our state capital is part of a pair of cities. Little Rock and North little rock are seperate cities on either side of the Arkansas River that looks like one big city.
If you want to drive to Point Roberts, Washington, you have to drive through a part of Canada.
Alaska is our northern, western, and eastern most state. Parts of Alaska's Aleutian Island chain is west of the International Date Line placing them in the far east and a day ahead.
Ahhh! I was picturing the east coast of North America & couldn’t figure out how any part of Alaska was near Maine. I’m glad I read your comment. I learned something today.
They used to have trouble, property tax wise, when houses straddled a county line. Now, at least in my state, all county lines are the center lines of roads. If one is traveling north on that road and do a u-turn one has left one county and entered another.
I think at the Belgium-Netherlands border, what country you live in depends on what street your front door opens onto.
Ardmore is a small city near to where I live on the Alabama-Tennessee border that developed as one city, but is now legally two cities, one in Alabama, one in Tennessee. Both still named Ardmore.
I live in Bristol Tennessee in the northeast. It shares a border with Bristol Virginia in the south west. Same but separate.
Kinda Like Kansas City MO or Kansas City Kansas
Agusta is in to states Georgia and South Carolina now they are trying to get the SC side changed to North Agusta and same as Bluefield West Virginia it is in Virginia also it is in two states.
You don't have to feel locked onto the land, we have bridges that go over rivers...lol!😜😊
tidbit about Texarkana: while people within city limits on the AR side do not pay income tax, you can still live in Texarkana outside of the city but still have a Texarkana address, and pay income tax. Also, almost all of the Texarkana businesses are on the Texas side and there are no taxes on food at the grocery store on the TX side but you pay these taxes on the AR side. City/State workers also have a higher avg wage where AR side does not so AR will see a high turnover for local Govt jobs as they leave to work on the Texas side.
I live in Oregon a few hours from Crater Lake, and was there two years ago and drove the entire rim drive. The view is breath-taking. To stand on the rim and look almost straight down into the deepest blue you ever have seen is impossible to describe. It was late July and there was still snow in spots near the lodge. It's the most beautiful place on earth I've ever seen. I left for Portland after it got dark as I just had to watch the sunset over Crater Lake (unreal!!!) The forests surrounding Crater Lake are so massive, deep and empty. I almost hit a huge mudder of a mountain lion as I came around a curve.....the silly thing wouldn't move out of the road. Very rude feline beasty.
You should check out the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in Derby Line, Vermont. The building itself straddles the American/Canadian border. There is a black line inside the building that shows where the border is.
I live in oregon USA and crater lake is a volcano. We have alot of Volcanos including MT. SAINT HELENS in Washington oregon border
A friend of my dad's who lived in Jacksonville Florida got these directions to visit his son in San Diego California: Take I-10 west, Exit 15* , take the second left third house on the right. A 34 hour drive and just those few directions. *I dont remember the exact exit number so dont bother googling that.
The 5 freeway if it's Downtown San Diego. Hahaha 😅
Wouldn't they need to take I-8 from I-10 to get to San Diego though? 10 goes from Los Angeles to Jax lol.
ok so one more line of directions to merge onto I-8. This was a long time ago
@@chipparmley It's okay, I-8 is forgettable anyway. Lol. Nothing on it except Yuma.
When someone stops on a long road trip to see things, they are vacationing and being a tourist. Most road tripping here isn't vacationing. Driving to get from point A to point B on a 2,000 mile trip is exhausting, takes days, especially if you're driving alone, and a tourist attraction is the last thing you want to stop for.
Interesting fact about Arkansas. Its home to Crater of Diamonds in Murfreesboro. Its the only diamond mine in the US where you can actually dig for your own diamond. People have found decent sized diamonds there.
You guys are so cute arguing about driving from Scotsbluff to Savannah.
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I grew up 45 minuts from Bubble Land, which is the area of Kentucky cut off from the rest of the state. You can only enter from Tennessee and believe there is nothing there. To see anything you have to drive into Missouri and look at Bubble Land from the New Madrid, Missouri overlook.
Arkansas has another oddity with Louisiana. The small town of Junctions City, population 500. The town is split among 2 states, 1 county, 2 parishes and 3 congressional districts.
I've been across that 1 mile stretch of Maryland many, many times.
Check out the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont. There's a line marked on the floor, down the middle of it.
I live in that tiny part of MD and he's right about how small the distance is through MD between PA nd WV.
I'm glad he touched on the fact that it really isn't as rainy in the Seattle area as it is made out to be. The weather statistics for "days with rain" are very misleading as they count any day with 0.01" of rainfall as a day with measurable rainfall. Most often our rain is in the form of scattered showers, these are brief moments of rainfall that are random and don't last long. It can be raining in one place and ten miles away be clear skies. Thanks to the Olympic Mountain Range between the Pacific Ocean and Seattle most rain coming in from offshore falls on its western slopes creating the continent's only temperate rainforest. This results in a rainshadow (abnormally dry region) on the other side just north of Seattle and splits weather systems. The Cascade mountains to the east of Seattle are the other reason we get rain as the few passes cause the split weather systems moving east to often stack up along the foothills by the passes, called convergence zones, and these are responsible for the rain. This also results in one of the largest rain shadows as most moisture is lost in these systems as they push to the higher altitudes of Central Washington east of the Cascades resulting in a very dry and arid environment. This is a stark contrast to the type of climate you experience just two hours away in Seattle.
Most of the Southeast gets more rain than Seattle
@@wwsciffsww3748 Yeah I think most of our reputation for rain comes from California transplants who are used to the dry hot climate of California. We get our share of clouds though but those also keep it warmer in the winter.
@@socket_error1000 I think it's also like that in a lot of the UK. Sure maybe it's drizzling on more days than parts of the southeast USA, but where I live in central NC we get more rainfall (48") annually than Seattle or London. It just happens to come with a lot of sunshine and heat too lol but it's a subtropical climate here.
@@lavenderoh It's funny when you start looking at latitude. London sits at a latitude of 51.5ºn, that would put it 200k (124 miles) north of Vancouver, BC or 430k (267 miles) north of Seattle. If not for the Gulf Stream they would be pretty cold, more like Iceland. (So would the rest of northern Europe for that matter.)
In North Carolina, there is a section of interstate 85 that curves around so much that even though you are going north, your directional heading will say south and the reverse if you're driving south.
When you have the map up of the Mississippi River at Kentucky Bend... There's a little town north of it called New Madrid.... That's where all my kids go to school.
Good to see Winston Salem, NC mentioned as I'm on the edge of there.
This was a fun video! Scale is hard to judge from maps alone. As far as swimming some rivers, it’s possible but could be daunting because of the width of the Missouri River and how much boat traffic it may have.
The 100th meridian divides the eastern woodlands from the great plains, this is most visible by crossing Meridian Ave. in Oklahoma City.
Crater Lake in Oregon is named so because it is actually a volcano crater, after the volcano erupted the crater filled with rain water and snow melting. No rivers feed the lake. Their is a pirate ghost ship which sails behind the island. Some people claim they've seen the ship, others haven't although many of these have visited the lake multiple times.
The city crossing borders phenomenon exists here in Virginia. Bristol is a city that sits across the Virginia/Tennessee border. The state line goes right down the middle of Main Street.
The city has two high schools. The one to the south (Tennessee side) is called Tennessee High School while the one to the north (Virginia side) is called Virginia High School.
There are at least three town in the US that straddle state lines. Texarkana is in Texas and Arkansas. Kansas City is in Kansas and Missouri. Coffeyville is in Kansas and Oklahoma. There may be more than these.
I grew up in the town next to Due West , South Carolina. It’s always awesome and funny to see it in a video
Check out a Video "How the States Got their Borders"..... I believe it was made by Discovery Channel (I could be wrong).....
One of the Odditiies it brings up, is a town (I forget the name) on Northern USA Border, The Library sits on the Border between USA/Canada, and mentioned that staff had to watch and make sure people exit through the door they entered....... Video also talked about relatives that could see each others houses but had not crossed border to visit in YEARS........
I’ve worked construction in Texarkana… in Arkansas they don’t sell beer on Sunday lol so we would have to go to the Texas side to bet beer after work Sunday
There’s a house in Vermont in which half of it is in Canada. My grandfather talked about how him and his friends in high school used to go in the US side walk to the back half where Canada is, and legally drank then walked out the front door back in the US
Fun Fact for Texas, we share cities with all of our neighbors, Texarkana is simply the most famous. It's a pity thing, they don't get to be actual Texans but they get the reflected glory. On the opposite side of the state is Texico, sitting on the border of Texas and New Mexico. Except when they checked the initial survey, they screwed up and set the line about 2 miles off the 103rd Meridian which is the designated boundary, making Texico wholly within New Mexico, and it's sister city Farwell being set on the Texas side. This same screwup put all of Texline within Texas without getting into New Mexico, but ironically made the village of Glenrio a border straddler, with one part in New Mexico and one part in Texas. Situated on Route 66 it was a minor roadside attraction until the new interstate I-40 bypassed it (by 1300 feet/400 meters to the North, you can literally see the remains of Glenrio from I-40). Technically Glenrio is a ghost town with a population of 1.
The most interesting is Texoma, not to be confused with Lake Texoma and the Texoma Region in East Texas, North of Dallas. The city of Texhoma is in the panhandle and there is a Texoma, TX and a Texoma, NM. Unlike most border straddlers, Texoma shares resources, and basically told the two states to stay out of their way. Children are educated in Texas K-4th grade, then in Oklahoma from 5th grade till graduation. Graduating students can attend both Texas and Oklahoma public universities as In State Tuition, a pretty good deal.
At first glance there is no border town for Louisiana, no Texana, and that makes sense; who'd want Louisiana? But in fact, there is Bethany LA/TX is an extension of Shreveport and spills across into Texas.
I loved all your Texas information!! The guy on the video said Texas has a state income tax which is incorrect.
I was either on Interstate 10 or Interstate 40 either in Texas or Oklahoma, but I remember a sign that said entering a certain county several times. The Interstates are normally pretty straight, but that was either a curvy section of interstate freeway or the county line wobbles all over the place.
There is a map going around fb showing that Nebraska is the only triple landlocked state. But that also includes Canadian Provinces.
Texas is large. It takes 12 hours to drive from Dallas, Tx to El Paso, Tx.
Texarkana is my home town. I've lived on the Texas side and the Arkansas side at different times in my life.
At one point I lived in a huge house with my friend living downstairs separately from the two rentals upstairs in the same house right off of state line on the Texas side.
The parties we used to have in that house in the early 90's were something else. Lol
I'm from Mississippi and the river changes courses so many times during flooding season and drying up seasons that no one can keep up with the rivers boarders. Yes if you lived west of the river then your in Louisiana or Arkansas and if the river drys up to the east of you then your back in mississippi or Tennessee....
When I was a child every summer we drove from Baltimore to Georgetown South Carolina which took 2 days staying in a motel for one night. It was always a really long boring drive. In 1998 and 1999 I went from Washington DC to Tyler Alabama over the Christmas holiday more than 900 miles. and we didnt stop overnight at all.
James & Millie, my husband & I are from Michigan. Yes, Michigan & Ohio are still butter towards each other. Lol. My hubby & I actually drove to Florida & back this past March, & we drove on the interstate highway in Tennessee that dips down into Georgia then back into Tennessee. It's a beautiful road when it's not foggy. It's kind of scary when that road gets foggy.
I've never been to Iowa but hopefully they do have bridges. I wouldn't feel to trapped.
@@kevincinnamontoast3669LoL 😅😅
@@kevincinnamontoast3669 I'm pretty confident that Iowa will never invent bridges.
I kept wanting to remind them that there are bridges!
While not in the Oxbow itself I live in Ky - it’s a popular area to take a nice long ride through.
I went to college with a girl who lived in Iowa, but had a Missouri address on her Iowa driver’s license. The closest post office to her house was in Missouri so that was why her address was a Missouri address.
We have 12 1/2 acres in the high Uintah mountains the deed actually read from the center of the creek...so at times the property be hind ours actually has a marker there is as much as 5 acres between our properties that technically belongs to neither property owner depending on how much the creek has shifted
We have bridges over rivers. We aren't "trapped".
Yet, they live on an island!
The shortest distance between the UK and France is around 20 miles, but between Russia and Alaska is around 55 miles,so just over double,but still not a lot
I'm pretty sure that part of Kentucky is where the Hatfields and McCoy's are from.
There's bridges that go over the Mississippi & Missouri Rivers.
My Grandfather's farm was outside of Warne North Carolina. In the early 1980's they did a USGS survey and found part of the farm was actually in Georgia. He had that farm for 30+ years prior to that survey and only paid North Carolina property tax... Georgia tried to sue for the back taxes, a court ruled that since it was a FEDERAL survey error, he didn't owe a dime to Georgia and wouldn't until he sold the property and the new owners would then have to pay both states taxes.
I did lived in North Dakota but went to High School in Minnesota. The Red River was the border line. Living in a rural area that is just a cross over the bridge to another state that is how it goes up there.
I am from Amarillo Texas and have lived in south Florida and have family there. Have driven it many times. Talk about a road trip. 17 hours to Houston, another 10 to Amarillo. I've gone the I 20 route also, and stayed in Vicksburg overnight. Great Waffle House in Vicksburg.
The Mason-Dixon Line is also known as the IHOP-Waffle House Line ha ha!
There are 9 people living in Kentucky Bend.
Kids who live in Point Roberts, Washington have to drive through Canada to get to their school in another part of Washington State.
That last one always made me laugh. My sister-in-law lived in South Carolina for a while and there was always a discussion about North South Carolina. 😆
A personal oddity. . .I drive eight miles to work. In doing so, I go between two cities, two counties, two states, and two time zones. . . . .
There are houses that cross state lines.
The Haskell Free library crosses the US - Canadian border.
KY Bend has a population of less than 10 and has less than 20 Square miles of land. I’m from that area. In fact I grew up in Land Between the Lakes, now a federal park. It’s the largest inland peninsula with in the US, 170,000 acres. About 40 miles long and about 5 miles wide. Keep up the good guys.
7:50 generally speaking we would fly a distance like that. :) unless you're doing a "road trip" where the purpose is driving a long distance :)
I live in Jacksonville Florida which has water on three sides and we are totally dependent on the bridges
I have a farmer friend that part of his farm is in Wisconsin and part of it is in Illinois.
Drove from Seattle, Washington down to Portland, Oregon, then up to Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, down to northern Illinois in one shot, no stopping. It took 36 hours and was around 2300 miles. Still have nightmares about that drive. 🤣
Im in Acworth, GA, a small town about 30 minutes north of Atlanta. I frequently drive down to St. Augustine, FL. I usually start the trip around 10pm, and arrive in St. Augustine in time to see the sun rise out of the ocean. Of course the night drive with less traffic is the reason for the relatively short drive. On the other hand, if you're in California and drive from San Diego (way south) to San Francisco (way north) it will take a few days to get there no matter what time you start.
Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, remain two separately incorporated cities but together, along with a number of other cities and suburbs, as part of the Kansas City Metropolitan area.
A lot of times on road trips, we just nap in our cars at the rest stops or well lit truck stops because hotels are freaking expensive.
To state the fact of the Texas Arkansas Stateline. one side of the road is Arkansas and the Other side is Texas. the Road is called Stateline. lots of car meets happen there. I live roughly 30 minutes from Stateline in a small Town in Texas. Texarkana Arkansas is Miller County while the Texarkana Tx is Bowie County. The Stripe going down the road is separation between both states
My son lived in Texarkana. You go South on main St. It's Texas, North is Arkansas. And the Arkansas side was a dry country. Texas side was not. Doctor's office was in Texas but they had to get their medicine from the Walmart on the Arkansas side where they lived.
My university mentor is a Kansas City native who grew up in Missouri on State Line Road, where if you overthrew a ball, it landed in Kansas...
One of the big issues with moving the State lines to conform with the course of the river has to do with property.
Every piece of land has a title - the title is based on survey lines that are part of a state's survey grid.
The legally pre-eminent survey is the original survey - so if you change the surveyed designation of where a piece of property is...
you have opened a world of current and future legal issues.
Also - the owner's may have some reason that they would prefer to remain in the state that they are in...
because laws and taxes vary in some surprising ways from state to state.
If you drive to Phoenix, AZ from St. George, UT you have to first drive through Arizona, then you drive through Nevada before driving back into Arizona. There's also a place in Arizona called Nothing, AZ. There is nothing there but a sign that says Nothing.
I can confirm Seattle doesn't get much rain.. it's just a stereotype that we do. the truth is we have a lot of days with rain, but this tends to be mostly drizzle or light.. however we do get fall storms that could dump 1-3 inches. might not sound like a lot but it is for us.
also, I'm surprised he didn't mention it, but Crater Lake is actually an inactive volcano. it erupted everything it had about 4800 years ago and the volcano collapsed in on itself. but it looks like a beautiful place, I hope to visit some day.
Something he left out about Texarkana is that our tourist center is also shared lol (rest area along the highway while traveling each state has them) it is where I discovered a brand of coffee named Westrock and it is amazing
College Corner is a town on the Indiana/Ohio state line and is also split by 2 time zones.
One the most oddity’s in my opinion would be the north west angle in the upper minnesota you have to cross into Canada to get there or a boat from the border of minnesota on the lake of the woods try to goggle it.
Half of Lake Tahoe is in California and the other half is in Nevada. There was a famous Hotel / Casino that was built on the border with half of the hotel being in California and the other half in Nevada. It was called the CalNeva Lodge. It was owned by Frank Sinatra for a time and was a popular hangout for Las Vegas Mobsters.
I worked all over the Midwest,east coast and south in the 90s when we left Dallas for any job whether in Miami Florida or Virginia Beach Virginia we drove non stop except fuel stops until we arrived and pickup trucks in the early 90s weren't very comfortable and the speed limit was 55
Crater lake is amazing 👏 in summer or winter 😍 I love oregon
Not feeling all that trapped in Iowa though - the two rivers are something like 6 hours apart on the freeway :P
There is a town in Arizona called Why and the neighboring town is called Why Not
Where im at in Davenport, Iowa. Its not too wide, and is swimmable.
The thing that makes the water so intensely blue is that there are no rivers flowing into it. As a result, the water is absolutely pure, getting replenished only via rain and snow (which they get a boatload of every winter).
James, yes, you can swim across the Mississippi or Missouri River, but it's a lot easier to take a bridge. LOL
Fairbanks can get up to 100F in the summer, and drop to -50 in the winter--a huge temperature spread for a city to experience. Millie, you may have already heard of the Diomede Islands; Big D is Russian, and Little D. is American, and they're only 2.3mi./3.7km. apart. Another is the little island labeled St. Lawrence; on the western tip is the main town of Gambell, which is only 36 mi./58km SE of Russia.
From my home in Rockland county head south you cross into NJ to get to NYC via the interstate parkway. You can go directly but this is just one way.
🌸 I've been to North, SC and Due West, SC. 💙💙💙
I live in texarkana ( on the texas side ) the state line is a 4 lane road with business on both sides.