Nov 2020 from Maggie - enclaves/exclaves

Maggie's pointed pen envelope with florals. Rotating the long word (Thanksgiving) is a fun way to fit it in and make it more of a design element -- than just a greeting. 

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Marilyn wondered what the license plate said in the Monday post. The nameplate on the car was ELEMENT - and the owner took off the T and added an OP and then the license plate was QRSTUV. ELEMEN - sounds like the part of the ABC song that blurs LMN - So reading them all together sounds like part of the ABC song.

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OK - time to get back to my Point Roberts report. After visiting my son in Whistler, BC, we went down to Point Roberts, WA. I had heard about it when the border was closed and knew it was one of the 4 enclaves on the US-Canada border where the land of one country is surrounded by a bordering country. Some sources call them exclaves. 

This map shows the top-left corner of the US - the northwest corner of Washington - and you can see where the 49th parallel sliced off the tip of the hangy-down portion of the Canadian peninsula. There is a very fun story about how decisions were made. I need to dig - and find that video of the history of Point Roberts for the serious students of historical geography.

It takes about a half hour to drive from Point Roberts around the bay to the border to get back into the US. When the border was closed due to covid - the community was seriously isolated. Here is an interesting video describing the situation and it also shows how pretty the community is.

LINK to video and article about Point Roberts

This map might give you a better idea of where it is.

The other 3 enclave/exclave/pene-enclave - whatever you want to call them.... there are a few different articles if you are interested in more info - through Google.

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 Angle Inlet, on the Lake of the Woods, in that odd appendage protruding from the northern border of Minnesota

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Campobello Island in New Brunswick is another pene-enclave. In this case, the only land route is through the United States.

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Hyder, a tiny town, the Easternmost in Alaska, near the southern end of the Alaska panhandle.

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and ---- if you just can't get enough of this type of stuff --

here is a town in Alaska where everyone in town lives in the same apartment building

https://unofficialnetworks.com/2021/05/28/this-entire-alaskan-town-lives-in-one-building/

The Wiki article has more info - like this:

Completed in 1957, the building has a rectangular plan and a flat roof. It is 14 floors high and is made up of three modules connected together. The north side has two protruding modules that form two square towers. Inside, sets of branched corridors and elevators allow residents access to all areas of the complex. The school is connected to the towers via a tunnel.

In addition to the residential areas, the building contains the basic services for condo owners and guests: a post office, a general store and a laundromat. There is also a small Baptist church, two floors of bed and breakfast daily rentals, a conference room, and an indoor playground at the school.