No gut Panama nap, "Tug" on.
Like, don't strip this admittedly somewhat factitious
Panamanian bicontinental bridge dream of its most
mythical elements. Instead, continue to believe, as
Tug uttered in his most famous quote, "Ya gotta
believe," which you have of course replicated in your
message below.
https://secure8.websitecomplete.com/emilysmonster/shop/showProd.asp?prod=10
or
http://tinyurl.com/43pfn
Similarly:
http://img.slate.msn.com/media/1/123125/123037/2093460/2099988/040517_TugMcGraw.jpg
or
http://tinyurl.com/4yv9p
--- aletheiak <
aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> nice one andrew
> at the crosshairs of the americas
> hahahahaha
> looks like an inca pyramid there too
> i love it
>
> not to mention that the original & main bridge over
> the canal in
> panama city is called the bridge of the americas too
>
> but ya gotta believe
>
>
> & meanwhile i have returned as always to the greater
> cape perpetua
> area
> finding my old rostah mon still not at home again
> but conceiving here today also a new mega exciting
> plan
> rather than hanging around anywhere even this
> fantastic very long
> during the height of trypointing season
>
> specifically it is to perform a sawanabori of the
> golden rogue river
> at least from its mouth at gold beach to its vortex
> at gold hill
> & to then consider the sequel of this most golden &
> roguish
> probability proceeding from there onward & upward
> while also generally megapointing my way onward &
> downward to my
> other regular cay
> namely mig torch key
> in the lower keys
> in time for the prospective 86ing of prohibition
> celebration already
> announced & scheduled for 16jan05 there
>
> tho it is already an admittedly ambitious plan
> i should tell you i have also conceived several
> additional exciting
> surprise interludes within it too
>
> yes i know that is staggering on this much bc bud
>
> but right now i am just trying to figure out where
> the true head of
> the rogue is
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Andrew T.
> Patton <andrew@A...>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:14:57 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >While the NGS has often furnished its maps of
> Europe and Asia
> with a green line
> > >separating the two, I have never seen them do the
> same for the
> two Americas or
> > >for Asia and Africa.
> > >
> > >I would suggest that the COPA political boundary
> is an
> unacceptable limit
> > >between the Americas for at least the following
> reasons:
> > >
> > >1. Were there not two Americas prior to the 1903
> independence of
> Panam� from
> > >Colombia?
> > >
> > >2. Nowhere does the NGS's Europe-Asia boundary
> follow a political
> boundary.
> > >
> > >I would, rather, suggest the narrowest part of
> the isthmus. That
> would be even
> > >with the Golfo de San Blas.
> > >
> > >However, an excellent argument can be made that
> the continental
> limit should be
> > >across the lowest part of the cordillera that
> runs the length of
> the isthmus.
> > >That is, indeed, where the Americas would become
> two separate
> land masses if sea
> > >level were to rise sufficiently. (This thinking
> is influenced by
> the actual
> > >experience at the Bering Strait between Asia and
> North America at
> the end of the
> > >most recent ice age, and perhaps at the Strait of
> Gibraltar, the
> Dardanelles,
> > >and the Bosporus at various times in prehistory.)
> This lowest
> part of Panam� is
> > >the approximate location of the canal.
> > >
> > >Between Asia and Africa, both the narrowest and
> lowest parts of
> the Isthmus of
> > >Suez are the approximate location of the canal
> there.
> > >
> > >So, we can add Panam� and Egypt to Russia,
> Kazakhstan,
> Azerbaijan, Georgia, and
> > >Turkey in the list of countries with continuous
> intercontinental
> sovereignty.
> >
> > I would suggest the middle of the Panama Canal as
> the effective
> > boundary now. (Interesting tidbit -- Construction
> of the Panama
> Canal
> > was completed 70 Years ago yesterday).
> >
> >
> > I went to Panama about a year ago and made a
> complete transit of
> the
> > Canal. During the transit, I took the attached
> picture. It is the
> > crossing of the Continental Divide while in the
> middle of the
> Canal -
> > so I am at the intersection of the border between
> N/S America and
> the
> > border between the Atlantic/Pacific Sides of the
> Americas. The
> picture
> > is of the South American part of the Continental
> Divide. More
> photos
> > of Panama can be found at
> www.andrewpatton.com/panama
> >
> >
> > -Andrew
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew T. Patton (andrew@A...)
> > Travelogues and Photos at
> http://www.AndrewPatton.com - Latest
> Entry: Panama
>
>
>
>
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