It's about 4 hours drive-time from the CT-NY line to the DE-MD line on I-95,
even in the middle of the night. I've done that drive on many occasions,
driving from my parents' home in New York City to my home near Atlanta. The
NY and NJ sections comprise about 135 miles of severely congested, badly
rutted road - not to mention the tollbooths every 20 miles or so. You'd have
to be suicidal to do more than 70mph on that road. Also, to include the PA
section of I-95 involves a substantial detour through Philadelphia - it's
not the most direct route.
I'd venture that the RI-to NY trip (via CT,MA,NH,and VT) would be even
longer. That is also not really a direct route, circling around couple of
tripoints (CT-RI-MA, MA-VT-NH). If you're going to count that, then you
should also count the 15 seconds it would take to walk through Colorado, New
Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. :-)
The PA-MD-WV-VA, and FL-AL-MS-LA trips are pretty much straight-line,
staying on the same highway, and neither one comes anywhere near a tripoint.
I had never noticed the Vermont neck, before. I knew that the Connecticut
River formed the boundary between VT and NH, but it appears that Halls
Stream (a small tributary of the Connecticut) forms the NH - Quebec
boundary, about 3 km to the west. I wonder what the history is behind that?
Jon
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From: <orc@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 2:07 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: cnkpru aka NKRuZh & nl
> proruption evidently refers to the entire salient area rather than just
the narrow neck or waist where it breaks out of the larger mass
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> also your hancock maryland neck tho certainly the narrowest such tristate
neck is actually a bit wider than the half mile neck of northeasternmost
vermont which separates new hampshire from quebec & isnt even shown by aaa
tho you can dial it up on topozone & also see it in bus&ss p63
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> & the most extreme states per hour strip is apparently either
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> ri ct ma nh vt ny for backroaders
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> or else
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> ct ny nj pa de md for autobahners
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> on either of which sequences i would think one could average at least 3
states per hour for 2 straight hours in a fast car with a radar detector &
good luck during the wee hours of a quiet morning
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> also re vanishingly small necks consider the former glacial neck of alaska
in tarr inlet on the upper panhandle which has melted all the way back into
canadian territory so that the alaska mainland is now broken into 2 separate
parts by the sea
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., jamatotest <jamato@b...> wrote:
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> > It's not on the national level, but one can travel through three U.S.
states
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> > (PA, MD, WV) in about 4 (yes, four) minutes, with no tripoint involved.
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> > The spot in question is near Hancock, MD, where Interstate highways 68
and
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> > 70 meet. US Highway 522 runs the width of this 2-mile wide MD
'proruption'
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> > (I must admit, I had never heard that word before today).
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> > Also, if one were to continue on US 522 from Hancock, heading south
through
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> > West Virginia, you would cross into Virginia within a half-hour, making
it
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> > possible to travel through 4 US states in about 35 minutes, with no
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> > multipoints involved.
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> > I believe there is another location where one can travel through 4 US
states
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> > in under an hour - FL-AL-MS-LA, heading west on Interstate Highway 10...
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> > Jon
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> > ----- Original Message -----
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> > From: "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@y...>
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> > To: <BoundaryPoint@y...>
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> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:19 PM
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> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: cnkpru aka NKRuZh & nl
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> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., orc@o... wrote:
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> > > (...) salients like this may also be called proruptions (...)
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> > > Really? The Netherlands has a proruption like this. It is called
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> > > South Limburg. It is always nice to show foreign visitors (especially
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> > > from big countries like the US) that you can visit three different
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> > > countries in, say, fifteen minutes (without coming even near a
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> > > tripoint, that is). The journey by car from boundary marker 122 on
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> > > the benl border to boundary marker 311 on the denl border lasts that
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> > > long (this is from Maaseik (B), via Roosteren and Susteren (NL) to
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> > > Isenbruch (D)).
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> > > Peter S.
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