Category: Maine
You Can’t Get There from Here

Andy Woodruff took me back to my Maine days in his excellent Cartogrammer post You can’t get there from here

Apparently in Maine they have a saying, “you can’t get there from here” (spoken in a Maine accent), said when giving directions as an observation of the impossibility of traveling a direct route between certain places. It seems to have something to do with lakes and the organization of roads in the vast rural areas of the state. To some extent it also holds true in other parts of New England.

The same holds…

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