Our last camping night out was at one of the strangest outposts of the United States, Point Roberts, Washington. It's so unique that it's the featured zip code in National Geographic this month. Check it out at National Geographic's website.

It's a little artifact of uninformed diplomacy. When the US and Britain finally got their stuff straight about where the line between the US and Canada is, they missed the fact that Point Roberts would be in the US, but have no access to the mainland. It's one little 5-square-mile section of the US. But you have to cross the border into Canada, drive several miles, and then cross back into the US if you want to get there by land. Take a look at the National Geographic article. It has a great satellite image showing exactly what happens with Point Roberts. In fact, if you look at the picture, you'll see just above Point Roberts on the left the jetty that is the ferry landing where we came in from Galiano Island.