ok
back in surprise already
but before continuing
i should insert for location & orientation to the eagle eye
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=33.89083&lon=-113.16833
from which you can zoom out & pan north a few miles to reach the town
of aguila
& wsw a few more miles to gladden
& nw a few more miles still to lamaya
remembering tho that it will look like lamayayu
if you are still in 24k scale
& like mayayu if you are in 100k or 250k
but anyway there i was with neither an eagle that really had an eye
nor even much hope of visiting one that definitely didnt have an eye
& well off course on my preliminary quest for gladden
not to mention my ultimate tripointing try for lamaya
so i dropped back into aguila
which btw is quite a destination in its own right
being perhaps the most delightfully mexican town in arizona
with lots of street life open shops wild music dark beauties dogs
tussling for scraps etc etc
& then continued to gladden
which i recollected as the trailer park for adults only that had also
amused me the previous time i blew thru
while not noticing the name of the place at the time
tho it gladdened me more this time to think it might just be like an
adult book store or adult dancing revue that you also just go home to
if you are happy & lucky enough to live there
but thats pure spec & i didnt check it out any further
since lamaya was still waiting for me in the wings after all
& so it was back to aguila again
& then north from there toward the yavapai county line
where
already in some pretty hairy mud & deep puddles
the road
announcing that it is leaving maricopa county
turns west with still 9 miles to go to la paz
fortunately it actually got better after a few more miles
which is contrary to the general rule that roads get worse as they
grow more remote
but after entering unposted private property
& opening & closing a cattle gate behind me
the going got positively excellent
all the way to the target zone
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=12&n=3764732&e=284457&datum=nad83
i had no difficulty identifying both the right hand road fork just
inside yavapai
& likewise the dry wash crossing the road just inside la paz
& tho i had no gps
i was able to carefully measure distances on the map & count off the
paces on the ground
but didnt recover the triangulation point shown in the road
nor the intriguingly named initial monument at elev 2259
nor even the tripoint itself
namely the corner number 1 mark at elev 2253
measured twice too
& then finally cut
a bit disconcerted to find lamaya was again only an illusion
first an illusory megapoint
& then a chimerical morphing tripoint
& finally nothing at all on the ground
& with no companions to boot
& for the second time tonight they are closing the library on me & my
story is hardly begun
for that was only the first try
i actually came back for more later on
& will have to do so again in the telling of it
so beeps again until tomorrow
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
wrote:
>
> haha
> well i had a beepin day all day
> tho i have only a few minutes to begin to tell you about it from
> here in wickenburg
>
> but in a nutshell as far as i can & to be continued
>
> heading out of surprise from the intersection of bell & grand
> i passed up both happy valley & happy lane on the way to gladden
> as i went looking for the eagles eye & aguila
> & ultimately lamaya
>
> reaching wickenburg i realized a literal loop de loop
> both deasil & widdershins
> tho i forget which is which
> of greater & greater rings around phoenix
>
> then approaching aguila i was quite impressed to see a large bird
> head in profile on the mountain ridge to the southwest
> with an apparent window rock for an eye
>
> but reaching aguila i realized this was not the eagle nor the
eagles
> eye at all
> but the true eagle was a different bird head on the ridge more
> directly to the south
> & the eye of this eagle was not its own eye but a window rock under
> its chin
> so the eye is really in the mountain rather than of the eagle
>
> something of a letdown i thought at first
> but then i saw that the eye of the other eagle really wasnt a hole
> either but only appeared so from a certain angle
>
> so this was all a bit offputting
> until much later in the day
> when i returned to complete my try for the eagles eye
>
> but i shall also have to return to complete my try to tell you
about
> it all
> or rather proceed now from here to surprise where the library stays
> open 2 hours later
> as i am being kicked out
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > Yes, it works now from here too, but it didn't last night. Ah,
> the vicissitudes
> > of the web!
> >
> > We actually have roadrunners here in western Louisiana! They
beep
> only in
> > cartoons and on BP.
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:32 AM
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: fresh algatn report by new players
on
> a 7 point
> > roll
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > yikes
> > > it still works even now here
> > > in surprise
> > >
> > > but i think the roads must be dry enough now too for me to make
> at
> > > least a probe toward lamaya
> > > if only to get a sense of what this beauty may hold in store
for
> us
> > > at a distance of 10 or 12 miles off the pavement
> > >
> > > so i am heading first actually to gladden this morning
> > > for the felicitation
> > > & then to if not thru the eagles eye & the town of aguila
> > > the jumpoff point
> > >
> > > el aguila no caza las moscas
> > > or something like that
> > >
> > >
> > > ah & talking about the birds
> > > i just remembered i have been forgetting for several days now to
> > > report my first 2 roadrunners of the entire beepin mini
> expedition
> > > now into its 3rd month
> > >
> > > first just a billboard variety of our highly reclusive bp bird
> > > in fact
> > > the casa blanca roadrunners high school mascot
> > >
> > > but then shortly afterwards
> > > on the right shoulder
> > > in the flesh
> > > oops
> > > i mean still in the feathers thankfully
> > > the real animal
> > > darting off into the bushes at my approach
> > > like i was wily coyote or something
> > > tho i heard no beeps
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > & special to mike
> > > before i run
> > > heres another good one that just came in from nonphysical this
> morning
> > > as promised in message 15926
> > >
> > >
> > > once you emerged into these bodies
> > > all of you did not come into this body
> > > just
> > > a
> > > part
> > > of
> > > you
> > >
> > > a part of your focus is come forth here
> > > while a larger part of you
> > > a broader part of you
> > > a very much older & wiser part of you
> > > remains
> > > in
> > > nonphysical
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > whew
> > >
> > > well
> > > beeps for now
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> > > <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > > > The link does not work. Can you double-check it, please?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Lowell
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: aletheia kallos
> > > > To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:42 PM
> > > > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] fresh algatn report by new players
> on a
> > > 7 point roll
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?
> > > forumid=3897&messageid=1095860422
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