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Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:28 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] particular mexican spots

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href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "John Seeliger"

> <

size=2>jseelige@a...> wrote:

>
> > BTW, I may be going to Mexico (Monterrey and

Saltillo) at the

> end of this month. Any particular spots nearby

that anyone would

> want a photo of, if I have a chance?

Well, we are finally into the month of Junuary, and I just got around to
making my trip. I made it to Monterrey.

>
> great
> of course

all the tristate points on eastern mxus are still

> premium targets &

practically virgins

> should you be passing by with a good enough

map

>
> but mexico appears to be so borderologically challenged

> challenging that a photo of even just an ordinary domestic
>

tristate point

> nay
> of even just an ordinary domestic state line

marker

> anywhere within that country
> would be totally

novel

>
> if you travel by car between monterrey &

saltillo

> at about the halfway point you will have a crack at

mx2conu

> the coahuila & nuevo leon state line
> where there

might conceivably be a road stone waiting for you

> but we simply have no

clue yet as to what to expect there

> or on any state line within

mexico

Would you believe a white sign with black letters that says:

"Termina Taumulipas Principia Nuevo Leon"

Then a green sign that says "Bienvenidos a Nuevo Leon"?

I didn't have my camera ready the first time, so I had to stop on the way
back and take the other pic first, then cross the median take the one going other way , run way down, to take the "Bienvenidos a Nuevo Leon" one.

I didn't see a road stone.

> if you get the chance to

reconnoiter a little farther afield tho

> about 100km south of saltillo

there may be a truly great prize

> the probably difficult to impossible

mx2conusaza

> or the legendary mexican 4corners point
> where the

states of san luis potosi & zacatecas are believed to

> meet the above

pair

If you every decide to seek this point and you spend the night in Monterrey on the way there, let me recommend the Howard Johnson Macroplaza. I booked it for 3 nights on expedia and it was ~1800 pesos total (about $50 per night), but I am going to set up a web page with info on how to get around there as downtown Monterrey is a bit confusing. BTW, the Museo de Metropolitiano Monterrey, next to the HoJo had a map showing these four states. An old map, there are not show as touching. I think NL was cut off from SLP, but I might be misremembering. No photos were allowed in there.

I have not yet developed the photos from the NL-TM border or the ones I took on the International Bridge Walkway in Laredo. I was told I could not take pictures in the US direction, but I had taken a few three days earlier from the CIETV where you get permits in Mexico. The reason they have watermarks on them is my scanner s/w won't work and I needed to download a few program. There are two more, but they would put this over the 1 MB limit. I will send in a day or two.

Looking directly across the Rio Grande from CIETV