Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] winchester va
Date: Oct 12, 2004 @ 21:01
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kaufman" <mikekaufman79@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] winchester va
>
> Sorry couldn't resist :)
> Really though the three missing coeds were in message
> 12424. 1st in your message, second in my message you
> were replying to, 3rd in your message I replied to.
> Each of them is of course just "s." When you typed
> 12407 (and obviously when I typed 12411), you must
> have not been at a smutguard computer (and I was not
> at one either). But in 12424 you were and this
> obliterated not only the coeds you were typing about,
> but the coeds from the message texts of 12407 and
> 12411. So they went kablooey times three. Hopefully
> this message restores them to their glory.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12407
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12411
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12424
>
> --- aletheiak <aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > ok new state town library & computer
> >
> > so i assume i can now reveal
> > the answers to the previous quiz were
> > cracked prickers & smut guard
> >
> > & in the interval
> > i earnestly tried to drive my van all the way to van
> > the elusive northernmost point of virginia
> > aka vawv3frhamo
> > or the interstate tricounty point of frederick va
> > with hampshire & morgan wv
> >
> > & even took my own advice verbatim
> > as offered to pithokie who preceded me here in
> >
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/14107
> >
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/14137
> > after some prefiguration in
> >
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12318
> >
> >
> > combed the ridge on foot for a tenth of a mile in
> > both directions
> > from the point of my best guessed odometer reading
> >
> > found nothing
> > tho it is another case of
> > well maybe under that huge tree stump there
> > etc
> >
> > could the usgs have been wrong about a marker named
> > ridge
> >
> > could a state line turnpoint & tricounty point exist
> > unmarked
> >
> > could the topozone mileage scale or my odometer be
> > so far off
> >
> > i doubted things could actually be quite so
> > deficient
> >
> > but just then the lady of cacapon mountain herself
> > drove by
> > with west virginia tags of course
> > & i asked her if she knew where the state line was
> >
> > she said no
> >
> > had she ever seen a stone marker post anywhere
> > around here on the
> > ridge line
> > i persisted
> >
> > naw been goin by here all my life & never saw it if
> > there is
> >
> > so i thanked her profusely
> > & nosed my van up onto the ridge at the only place
> > where it was even
> > possible to do so anywhere near my best guessed
> > position
> > & photographed it there with 1 foot on the grille
> > etc
> >
> > me & my van at van
> >
> > to the best of my knowledge & ability
> >
> >
> >
> > later
> > when i was accosted by the man
> > of the park
> > asking me if he could help me
> > so to say
> > & i had to return pursuit fast
> > i said
> > tip top unless you can do me one better
> > & stuck my map in his face asking him for the state
> > line marker
> >
> > he said oh there are several
> > but no post
> > only disks in low slabs
> > & couldnt give me any coherent directions to any of
> > them
> > but
> > walk along the ridge
> >
> > so of course i was able to salute & dismiss him
> > summarily
> > while making as if to immediately obey his orders
> >
> > & tho any of his disks might be the van marker
> > i blew off the try at that point
> >
> >
> > & once again
> > had my doppelganger been there with his gps
> > it might have been different
> > but it was still pretty spectacular
> >
> > & maybe not quite up to ctmany leaf peeping
> > standards
> > but close
> >
> >
> > running out of time now
> > & making the best of it
> >
> >
> > but i did also get to check out the 2400 foot
> > cacapon mountain
> > culmination point
> > but was not inclined to cack upon it
> > & got to examine the peculiar feature called
> > the lock
> > which looks like a ridge bridge
> > or else a superhard left & right jog
> > from cacapon to piney
> >
> > & it struck me that the blue ridge
> > of my mind anyway
> > may be remarkable in that it evidently doesnt have
> > any such bridges
> > or locks
> > but runs many hundreds of miles without any
> > interruption or jog
> > for as long as it is the blue ridge
> >
> > or isnt that so true & special as i imagine
> >
> >
> > well anyway
> > i will soon be out of time here
> > but it inspires me to at least check it out
> >
> > beeps
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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