& what a rush to find santa himself visiting the surprise library
this morning in the middle of my report
& to be cosmically forced by the overflow crowd into the second
overflow parking lot
which is actually the parking lot of the major league ballpark they
also have here on the surprise recreational campus directly across
the street from this surprising library
flagship btw of the maricopa county library system
which rightfully styles itself as
your unexpected oasis
not the redsox or mets admittedly
but yikes
b o t h
the kansas city royals
a n d
the texas rangers
anyway
so santa has evidently recreated us into major league royal rangers
divine drifters i should say
& what a fitting culmination to our year of bp mega refinement
but to pick up from where i last drifted off on the tripoint try
there i was
lowballing it back toward aguila again
& wondering how & where a moment of truth might enter
to gladden this pointless eagle eye search for lamaya
when it occurred to me to check for another marker i had also noticed
on the topo
namely maya corner number 3 shown here
tho obviously not really a corner but just a line stone
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=12&n=3764422&e=292574&datum=nad83
about 5 miles east of lamaya
& tho i had to crawl under some barbed wire
i soon recovered the monument
no problem
a slender concrete triangular pyramoid with pipe stem in lieu of apex
& 3 embedded plaques
one for maricopa
one for yavapai
& the third giving exact distances to corners 2 & 4
aha
here was the breakthru
for now i both knew what kind of a marker i was looking for at lamaya
in all probability
& had an independent route to the target too
via corner number 2
if i could find it
for the topo doesnt show corner number 2
but using my car odometer & inner pedometer in combination i was able
to zero right in on it at 14700 foot range to such an amazing extent
that in the end i was only 10 paces shy of it & 5 paces beside it
& it was identical to corner number 3 except that it gave the exact
distance now to corner number 1
aha
so there i had an independent check on my earlier measurements
& in the ensuing retry for lamaya i found i was again no more than 10
or 20 paces off the mark of my previous try
so there was nothing wrong with my methodology either time
but again no sign of lamaya nor of either of her 2 near companions
shown on the topo
now it is not at all disturbing not to find a benchmark in a road
but it was quite unsettling to be missing 2 major stones
no matter how hard i looked & tried & remeasured etc
& then it dawned on me that the most probable locations for both the
corner number 1 marker & the nearby initial monument
whatever it might have been the initial monument of
were
exactly in the middle of a single dry wash
aha
for it was nothing less than a double washout
aha
of course
no doubt about it now
& a sight to gladden any eagle eye
but there is more
& i appear to be on a wacky computer here that wants to cut me off
soon
& i cant do a save on this
so i think i will just post this much now
& continue with part 4 from another machine in awhile
with apologies & thanx for your continued indulgence
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
wrote:
>
> 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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