Hi Bill, thank you so much for your immediate
reply... yes, I think our group is pretty much alive!! Jesper came by yesterday
and we had a long discussion on borders, borderlines, tripoints etc. I had a lot
of photographs to show him...
He promised to help me setting up my scanner at the
end of August - and maybe
even help me establishing my own home-page...
unfortunately, because of family visits this can't be done before
August...
We agreed on a short trip to the Danish-German
border sometimes in fall.
That border is only 65 km long and is marked by
exactly 280 boundary-markers,
many of them already visited and taken picures
of...
This might be a kind of "build-up" for the
big trip - probably next year:
8 Central-European tripoints in 8 days
!!!
If any of you border-guys should be interested in
this trip, let us know ! I wouldn't mind organizing such a trip - and the more
people we are, the cheaper it would be!
Time of the year: May or Sept. Trans-Atlantic
airline fares have become quite affordable, so - what are you waiting for...
?
Bill, thanks for your info on Point Roberts.
Actually, I didn't express myself properly: I know quite a lot about PR, have
been there myself, taken a lot of pictures as well - BUT: I'd
like to know about the background for the decision to put the border quite
there: why should the southern tip of this peninsula belong to the US -
with all the difficulties involved..? And why did the southern part of
Vancouver
Island not become American as well - would be
logical in my opinion...!
Any material on this border and the decision made
accordingly...?!?
All the best - enjoy the summer..
Peter