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electric_blue68

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15. I remember traveling to East Lansing by bus, with a stop in Detroit. On our way out...

Reply to Bluetus (Reply #11)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 07:43 PM

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We passed several overhead signs including "To Canada".

I was like, "woah!".

This was bc I live in NYC...but had traveled to Canada by car as a tween with my family. Half way northward in NYS, then turned west all the way past Buffalo towards Toronto.
Next trip was all the way north in NYS towards Montreal.
So several hundred miles either way.

Suddenly, here I was right next to Canada unexpectedly not really remembering Detroit's geo-location.

(our trips to Canada were nice, so it was just a location surprise)

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