Subject: Re: US-Mexico Joint Projects
Date: Apr 01, 2002 @ 15:59
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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> Hi m,this
>
> The photos I posted are in the 'Photos' category on the left of
> page, click on that and there's a category for US/MEX borderphotos.
> I'll be posting more since that's my specialty as i get them.ok thanxxx victor
>exactly
> The last time I was in Yuma running south the 23 miles to San Louis
> RC in Sonora i was more into borders and the thought of tripoints
> hadn't crossed my mind at that time. It was about 3 years ago, but
> it's only about 3 hours drive from my house so I'll go and check it
> out. There's actually 2 tripoints there, CA/BC/AZ and SON/BC/AZ,
> within a few miles of each other. I'll get there soon and take some
> photos and post them here.
>access
> In regards to the cable car ride, I am intrigued. How did you
> it? From the AZ side? or in BC (Los Algodones?).the cables & car run between a pair of towers on both sides of the
> little out of the place there for a cable car as I remember thearea
> full of cotton fields.the cable car may be for gauging the stream flow
> from the CA side. And that was all the snowbirds crossing theborder
> to buy prescriptions at a discount. There's actually a lot ofstate
> Canadians in Baja.
>
> In response to Border Field, it is actually quite nice now the
> of California has spent a lot of money to upgrade this park thatvery
> few people visit but that's fine by me sometimes I go there andjust
> relax and fall asleep listening to the radio in my car. Sure theborder
> ride's not pretty getting there (last time i went there were huge
> unpassable mounds of dirt in the road preventing my little car from
> passing) but when you can get there it's worth it. Oh, and the
> monument is much more easily accesible from the TJ side. Justgetting
> back over the border in San Ysidro takes a looooong time.colorado
>
> Never visited the US/CAN border that's next on my list.
>
> VC
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> > welcome victor & thanx
> >
> > this strange collection of cooperative projects also fails to
> include
> > an obviously cooperative international cable car ride i recently
> > discovered running between a pair of towers straddling the
> > river very near the azbcca tristate point but which i neglectedto
> > photograph & so i do heartily commend & entrust that littlemarvel
> towish
> > you if you should ever wander so far east
> >
> > also the mxus coastal area at tijuana slough is so unsavory i
> weseem
> > could dissuade you from that particular trip
> >
> > i think i do still recognize their pic of monument 1 there very
> near
> > the elpaso chnmtx tristate point
> > which i also recently visited
> > but now that you mention it all the mxus monuments & walls do
> toto
> > take an inordinate amount of abuse & mutilation for some reason
> > say as compared to the monuments on the canadian border
> >
> > m
> >
> > havent yet found the pix you mentioned posting tho
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "drpotatoes" <drpotatoes@h...> wrote:
> > > Howdy folks,
> > >
> > > I'm new to the group and this is my first post.... just wanted
> > letthe
> > > you know that the photos on this link are quite old and well
> > > border monuments don't look like that at all anymore. The onein
> Elthe
> > > Paso, #1, doesn't look that nice anymore. And #258 here in San
> > Diego
> > > has a huge steel curtain next to it and not that whimpy fence.
> Next
> > > time I'm down that way I'll take a photo of it and post it in
> > > photo section (#258 is about 20 minutes from me). I've posted a
> few
> > > photos of the border wall in the US-Mex section as well of
> > something
> > > I thought was quite interesting.
> > >
> > > Victor
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen"
> > > <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > http://www.ibwc.state.gov/LANDBOUN/land_boundary.htm