Sucks to get a full body cavity search every day before school.

October 20, 1818 –

Canada and the United States in the “Convention of 1818“, established the 49th Parallel as their mutual boundary (known as the International Border) for most of its length from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky mountains.

The International Boundary is commonly referred to as the world’s longest undefended border, but this is true only in the military sense, as civilian law enforcement is present. But we’re keeping an eye on those sneaky Canadians and their cheese curd fries.

There are some 150 people who live in the Northwest Angle, MN, a spot of land that is separated from the rest of the USA by Lake of the Woods.

Students who live in the Northwest Angle go to school in Warroad, MN, the Angle Inlet School (the only surviving one room school,) and have to cross the international border on their way to and from school each day.

Thank you to our family from the north for your kind words. Now keep to your side of the parallel!

And so it goes