Subject: Re: Tex-Mex bridge error and a new tripoint photo!<br/>
Date: Sep 19, 2004 @ 00:14<br/>
Author: robedsall (&quot;robedsall&quot; &lt;robedsall@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1059648776">My visit to the CHNMTX tripoint last month ended with a polite but <br/>
serious suggestion by the border guard who found me poking around the <br/>
business parking lot of the offices of the brick company with my <br/>
GPS.  I asked about the existence of Bndry Mker 1 and he <br/>
said &quot;there&#39;s nothing much to see there.&quot;  Darn!  Clearly there is a <br/>
monument, shown in the Urban Areas Terraserver photo... and a healthy <br/>
stand of trees in an otherwise desolate unvegetated area.  I&#39;ll try <br/>
again - it may mean calling the Border Patrol ahead, saying I&#39;m a <br/>
geography professor (that often buys me a little consideration), and <br/>
being escorted to the monument.  Anyone (altheiak? Lowell?) have <br/>
experience with this?<br/>
<br/>
I had to be satisfied with a nearby park near the parking lot of an <br/>
old restaurant about 1 mile south of the line.  It&#39;s got some cool <br/>
flags and plaques and Jaurez City is clearly in view across the <br/>
river.  See<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t=4&s=8&x=7141&y=70300&z=13&w=1">http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t=4&s=8&x=7141&y=70300&z=13&w=1</a><br/>
<br/>
Incidentally, NM highway 9, which now extends from Columbus to Santa <br/>
Teresa NM (near El Paso), was my route out of town, at night.  It was <br/>
on my map but a challenge to find... it&#39;s not well marked, I found <br/>
out later, because it is an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS road, particularly at <br/>
night.  The woman at New Mex. St. U. I told about my trip said, &quot;YOU <br/>
WENT ON HY 9?  MAN YOU&#39;RE BRAVE!&quot;  Apparently, coyotes, and now <br/>
Muslims who are literally killing the coyotes for territory rights, <br/>
will carjack you and leave you out in the desert.  I passed a couple <br/>
of BP trucks on the 40-mile stretch, but apparently I took my life in <br/>
my hands without knowing it.  Ignorance is bliss.  Suggestion: stay <br/>
on the Interstate about 40 miles north.  HY 9 is not particularly <br/>
interesting (other than the fact that you could DIE!).<br/>
<br/>
rob</div>