Subject: txwn & txw & chnmtx visited<br/>
Date: Dec 31, 2001 @ 18:00<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1036745617">el paso tx<br/>
<br/>
since bus&ss itself calls the nw corner of the north tx panhandle txnw<br/>
& since txw has proved to be a different point than txwn<br/>
i took the liberty of distinguishing them all by these names<br/>
& was soon blissfully bagging both txwn & txw class a<br/>
<br/>
the latter point is very near the corner of borderland & mcnutt<br/>
which latter road then continues almost all the way to chnmtx<br/>
<br/>
our call at chnmtx proved a bit more problematical tho<br/>
since we were warned away from a preliminary viewing on mt christo rey<br/>
a nearby peak resembling chfrit etc<br/>
by 3 carloads of yanko border guards around 10pm several hours after the <br/>
following sign had been ignored<br/>
<br/>
mt christo rey<br/>
due to thefts & assaults<br/>
dont leave valuables & car unattended<br/>
ascend in groups of 5 or more<br/>
stay on the trail<br/>
dont carry valuables<br/>
travel at your own risk<br/>
<br/>
so we headed for anapra where we got stuck in the sand & were arrested first <br/>
by the railroad police & then by the border guards & were then even bypassed <br/>
by barking k9 units when we really thought our number was up but in fact we <br/>
were eventually pulled out of the sand by the yankos themselves & of course <br/>
they are the nicest guys you could ever want to meet<br/>
<br/>
btw there is no wall at all around here but only a chain link fence around <br/>
the pueblos which then vanishes entirely as the boundary jumps over the <br/>
mountains<br/>
<br/>
finally tho this morning after we emerged again onto mcnutt aka nm hwy 273 <br/>
at the corner of crazy sams or 498 we eventually found the brickyard turnoff <br/>
continuation of mcnutt just before the rio grande bridge<br/>
& btw i should tell you that the critical corner of my topozone print was <br/>
missing<br/>
so this was a somewhat surprising discovery after all the drama of the night<br/>
& then we drove right past the dam & almost directly down to chnmtx<br/>
& visited monument 1 of the 267 along that survey sector of mxus spanning <br/>
the rio grande & the colorado<br/>
& eyeballed the intersection of the mxus line with the rio grande thalweg<br/>
so we made it class c<br/>
& jc even got her shoes wet there<br/>
but while i was taking off my shoes & rolling up my cuffs for a class b <br/>
visit along the ankle deep thalweg<br/>
a couple of suspicious characters emerged from mexico & their vibe sent us <br/>
packing for breakfast & the library from which we havent yet returned<br/>
<br/>
so to sum up<br/>
we have hit 3 mxus tristate points class c<br/>
& besides the northernmost extremities of baja california bcn & sonora son<br/>
we now at least have a string of lottery tickets toward an eventual <br/>
chihuahua norte winner as well<br/>
for this chn point is another of those that could only be settled by the <br/>
precise latitudes of all the mxus monuments along the chn line<br/>
<br/>
the cold front is seriously here tho & should bottom out tonite<br/>
so we are seriously southbound for the palindromical millennium<br/>
<br/>
& may all yours be all you desire<br/>
<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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