No. I didn’t get it:
A Geographical Oddity!
Imagine you’re at home in a city somewhere in the United States. You decide to travel along each of the four compass directions: north, south, east, and west. On Day 1, you travel due north and you eventually cross a state line into . . . State X. You return home.
The next day you decide to travel due south. Again, you come to the border of your home state and its neighbor. It is also state X. You return home amazed.
The morning of Day 3, you elect to proceed due east—and you are shocked to find out that the first state you reach is, again, State X.
On the fourth day you travel due west and soon are stupefied to find yet another sign saying “Welcome to State X.”
There is only one city in the United States wherein traveling along the four compass points—north, south, east and west—brings you to the same single state, no matter which direction you choose. Name the city, and the state.
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Though the south direction may be a bit tricky, I’m going to say the city is Carter Lake, Iowa, and the state is Nebraska. You have to go through Omaha to access this town via its main highway.
Carter Lake was cut off from the rest of Iowa by the Missouri River changing course after a flood. A court case determined that Carter Lake still belonged to Iowa, flood or no flood.
Could also be one of the Indian reservations. These are not part of any state.
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