glad to chirp in here too

>
>Here are answers to your questions:
>
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>> Is Illinois - Iowa - Wisconsin wet or dry? If dry it looks like a
>great one.
>
>Wet. Ask Mike because I think he was arrested here and this is the
>photo he took as they dragged him away.

yes i was already under arrest as a suspicious character there in the
uptight blufftop community of east dubuque illinois when i impulsively
bolted from my astonished captors & then even proceeded to trespass upon
some of the private property they were ineffectually guarding & which you
see there while still somewhat vaguely in their custody in order to shoot
this perfectly centered class d photo of the iailwi tripoint which lies
near midriver here probably visible just above the edge of the dropoff

in the end i was actually commanded by one of these bothered & confused
police officers to take this shot

shoot he shouted

it was his way of restoring order & authority & dignity

of course i immediately obeyed so we could both make our point without
further ado

& tho they begged to search me & would have gladly busted me
because i guess i truly am a suspicious character
it was i who busted them in that moment with the click of my shutter

the following year jane & i canoed to the tripoint itself from the far bank
at dubuque iowa also visible here on the far shore for a class b visit & a
closer but not a finer photo

see http://www.angelfire.com/md2/polystate/iliawi.JPG for that river level
view
which also faces northwest toward the same finger of land uncannily
pointing directly at the tripoint from dubuque
as also appears dramatically at
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=42.507&lon=-90.6516&s=25&size=s

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>>
>> Is Indiana - Michigan - Ohio in the middle of the road? If so
>awesome!
>
>This one is in the road. That's me pointing to the spot where a
>monument was placed beneath the road in 1915. In 1999 they paved the
>road and re-set the monument in a special vault with a little access
>cover. There is virtually no traffic on this road.

a 4 frame journey down into this particular rabbit hole begins at
http://www.angelfire.com/md2/polystate/inmioh.jpg
& concludes at
http://www.angelfire.com/md2/polystate3/inmiohplak.JPG

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>> Is Kentucky - Virginia - West Virginia a marker sticking out of the
>water?
>
>The actual marker is a pipe with a brass disk on the shore of Tug
>Fork. Gregg Butler took this picture. The actual monument is not
>visible in this photo.

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/polystate2/kyvawv.JPG shows this elusive marker
as well as the rock cap gregg placed upon it
which may still enhance & emphasize it to this day
& which alone enabled me to rediscover it a few weeks after him amidst so
much riverborne debris as to have made it otherwise virtually invisible &
impossible

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>>
>> Is Maryland - Pennsylvania - West Virginia the man in the blue
>shirt or the rock?

hahahahahaha
we need more questions like this

>
>The guy in the blue shirt is Gregg Butler. The small monument in
>front of his feet commemorates the Mason-Dixon line. The tri-point
>is the larger monument Gregg is touching.
>>
>> Is Ohio - Pennsylvania - West Virginia wet or dry?
>
>This one is wet. I took this photo from the road. It views the tri-
>point between two building at an ore-processing plant.

we are headed here with a canoe tomorrow

>
>>
>> Is Maryland - Virginia - West Virginia???
>
>This one is usually wet but sometimes dry. Here the Potomac River is
>quite high. I think Mike took this picture. A few weeks after this
>I was there and stand on the tri-point (not marked though). We
>believe it is directly downstream from a large boulder, which is
>creating the standing wave you see here.

i am pretty sure the trick here is to observe & follow the descending ridge
line northward & right down across the tallest rocks
which naturally mark the ridge also
all the way to the mean low water line
which is indeed rarely seen
& may be marked here as in many places by a perceptible change in the algae
coloring or slipperiness of the rocks

one last point i must add is that my canvor shot presently at the corner
corner front page is way off
& is corrected by http://www.angelfire.com/md2/polystate/canvor.JPG

more later
m