And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I knew a guy who rode a jet ski to the Gulf starting from Omaha, NE. I'll just say he's 'interesting'. Look up Judd Spittler for logs of some of his offbeat travels.
W.Va. owns the Ohio River between it and Ohio. I wouldn't consider that end of the state exactly landlocked since the Ohio drainage eventually flows to the Mississippi and the gulf.
I think y'all are missing the point; all the blue states have parts of them that border on an ocean or sea. The green, yellow and orange ones do NOT border on an ocean or sea. ( For those of you who wish to argue about my use of the word " states ", look up the official name of Mexico. )
Partially true, we in Tennessee have ne-direct access to the Gulf of Mexico via a well developed navigable river system.
ReplyDeleteOnly if you don't count The Great Lakes.
ReplyDeleteWhy Wisconsin? Great Lakes there.
ReplyDeleteAlso Ohio and Indiana and Illinois. Also river access to. Gulf
ReplyDeleteIf you're really reaching the Missouri river flows through Nebraska..
ReplyDeleteI knew a guy who rode a jet ski to the Gulf starting from Omaha, NE. I'll just say he's 'interesting'. Look up Judd Spittler for logs of some of his offbeat travels.
DeleteNebraska, with the state motto - "What Frickin' Tidal Wave Will Reach HERE !!"
ReplyDeleteW.Va. owns the Ohio River between it and Ohio. I wouldn't consider that end of the state exactly landlocked since the Ohio drainage eventually flows to the Mississippi and the gulf.
ReplyDeleteTulsa has a port with access to the Gulf of Mexico so it isn't exactly land-locked.
ReplyDeleteI think y'all are missing the point; all the blue states have parts of them that border on an ocean or sea. The green, yellow and orange ones do NOT border on an ocean or sea. ( For those of you who wish to argue about my use of the word " states ", look up the official name of Mexico. )
ReplyDeletePaul L. Quandt