A Two-State Lunch Break

Straddling the PA-MD border.

While we were camped at Rocky Gap State Park in the mountains of western Maryland, we decided to hike the Evitt's Mountain Trail, the park's most challenging walk. The trail ascends about 1,200 feet in 4 miles and crests Evitt's mountain at the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania, better known as the Mason-Dixon Line. While most people know the line as the border between north and south during the Civil War, it originally was named for two surveyors (Mason and Dixon) who were hired to delineate the border of Pennsylvania and Maryland in the early 1700s. Today, there is a post marking the border. We had lunch straddling the border, Paula in the state where she was born, Maryland, and me in the one in which I was born, Pennsylvania.