Straddling the Fence

I first got excited about it in 1992. I was just a couple of miles north of Skagen, Denmark. Actually, I was at the very edge of Denmark! I had one foot in the North Sea and the other foot in the Baltic Sea. I thought that was the neatest thing.

Ever since then, I have tried to find places where I could have each foot in a different body of water, simultaneously. It's not as easy as it sounds. Sometimes you have to decide whether bodies of water really are different, or just the same. Standing on the tip of Florida, you can have one foot in the Gulf of Mexico and one foot in the Atlantic Ocean. Are they the same or different? When you are at the southernmost point of New Jersey, do you consider the Delaware Bay to be distinct from the Atlantic Ocean? You get the idea. And when you are standing where rivers meet, such as the Ohio and the Mississippi, do you get to count each one?

Regardless of the questions about what constitutes distinct bodies of water, I get to decide because as far as I know, I am the only one participating in this--what must be a result of some mental deviation. But I enjoy it. And I will continue to enjoy it every chance I get.