Americans ignorant about their neighboring country to the north? Oh, come on now. Surely you jest. Can't be more than a handful of 'em, including the ones that a shopkeeper who my wife and I were familiar with in Mackinaw City, Michigan, told us about on one of our regular trips there a few years ago.
Her convenience store was located on a handy corner near I-75 close to the last exit before the Mackinac Bridge carried the interstate across the Straits from Michigan's Lower Peninsula into its Upper Peninsula. Seems folks headed north regularly stopped in with questions regarding whether or not they should exchange their money before they crossed over the bridge looming just outside her door into *Canada*, or what time did the bridge *swing over to the island* (Mackinac Island) and what time did it swing back to Canada?
Of course, more than a few were quite aware that when they crossed the Big Mac they would still be on American soil, asking where the best place was to buy *real Wisconsin cheese* on the other side.
Americans ignorant about their neighboring country to the north? Oh, come on now. Surely you jest. Can't be more than a handful of 'em, including the ones that a shopkeeper who my wife and I were familiar with in Mackinaw City, Michigan, told us about on one of our regular trips there a few years ago.
Her convenience store was located on a handy corner near I-75 close to the last exit before the Mackinac Bridge carried the interstate across the Straits from Michigan's Lower Peninsula into its Upper Peninsula. Seems folks headed north regularly stopped in with questions regarding whether or not they should exchange their money before they crossed over the bridge looming just outside her door into *Canada*, or what time did the bridge *swing over to the island* (Mackinac Island) and what time did it swing back to Canada?
Of course, more than a few were quite aware that when they crossed the Big Mac they would still be on American soil, asking where the best place was to buy *real Wisconsin cheese* on the other side.