Post AkFShq6CtAoIsAtGCm by debcha@saturation.social
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 (DIR) Post #AkFShluMTGxTsHJkBc by debcha@saturation.social
       2024-07-24T02:40:12Z
       
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       I took the train from Seattle to Vancouver a couple of weeks ago and, as we crossed the border, the Amtrak conductor said, “We are now leaving the cold, rainy Pacific Northwest and entering the warm, sunny southwest corner of Canada!” and it might be my favorite geography joke ever.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkFSho1saIA0SAqmBM by debcha@saturation.social
       2024-07-24T02:40:12Z
       
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       When I lived in Seattle it was fun to tell people that even though I had grown up in Canada, it was the farthest north I’d ever lived. And then I moved to London and it was REALLY fun to tell people I was living further north than ever before.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkFShq6CtAoIsAtGCm by debcha@saturation.social
       2024-07-24T02:40:12Z
       
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       [I grew up in Toronto, if you’re wondering.]
       
 (DIR) Post #AkG6B1bp4RRLBFaOh6 by lkanies@hachyderm.io
       2024-07-24T08:07:39Z
       
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       @debcha some people think every day about the Roman Empire. I think every day about what percent of Canadians live below the border between North Dakota and Canada.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkG6B2mqgvr0pjkiWG by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-07-24T14:43:56Z
       
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       @lkanies @debcha I was in a little mediaeval castle-town in southern Baden-Württemburg and had to do a double take."Hey! That's a ROMAN WATCHTOWER on the other side of the valley!"I'd recognize that masonry anywhere.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkG6E7s6F8XjTKg6im by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-07-24T14:44:31Z
       
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       @aredridel @debcha Yeah, it's like the fact that, transiting the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, you go east.