Thursday, December 9, 2021

Maryland

 

I realize that Minnesota has a weird shape with a curvy east border and a chimney on top but what about Maryland? What is up with Maryland? Maryland looks like a caulk gun with caulk dripping. Today we left the eastern border of West Virginia and drove into Kentucky. To get to Kentucky we had to go through Maryland again. To get anywhere out here we need to go to Maryland. There is a stretch of Maryland that is only a mile wide. Why? There is a part of western Maryland that is so far west the water drains into the Mississippi instead of the Chesapeake bay. Maryland has to be the oddest shaped state in our union.

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