--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "drpotatoes" <drpotatoes@h...> wrote:
> Hi m,
>
> The photos I posted are in the 'Photos' category on the left of
this
> page, click on that and there's a category for US/MEX border
photos.
> I'll be posting more since that's my specialty as i get them.
ok thanxxx victor
these are interesting & please do
more comments below
>
> The last time I was in Yuma running south the 23 miles to San Louis
> RC in Sonora i was more into borders and the thought of tripoints
> hadn't crossed my mind at that time. It was about 3 years ago, but
> it's only about 3 hours drive from my house so I'll go and check it
> out. There's actually 2 tripoints there, CA/BC/AZ and SON/BC/AZ,
> within a few miles of each other. I'll get there soon and take some
> photos and post them here.
exactly
& great since i was foolish enough to visit them both recently
without a camera & was wishing someone like you would come along to
do just this
i must tell you tho that bp member jack parsell has evidently already
made the ultimate visit to azbcso by walking out to the intersection
of the monument line & the thread of the stream bed there on a rare
occasion when the colorado was bone dry & that will be hard for you
to match
your best shots there may be a panoramic overview northward from the
bridge on the transmexican highway &or a view westward along the
monument line down into the stream
>
> In regards to the cable car ride, I am intrigued. How did you
access
> it? From the AZ side? or in BC (Los Algodones?).
the cables & car run between a pair of towers on both sides of the
river in arizona & baja respectively but the cable car itself was
locked to the more heavily fortified american one
i visited & climbed both towers & even tried the lock on the cable
car which is on the arizona tower
you can best access the baja tower tho from california by simply
walking around the end of the wall that terminates just there no
kidding
a shot at the tripoint itself however even with the help of the
towers may prove extremely difficult in the thick vegetation without
a machete
here too it may be glimpsed at the intersection of the monument line
& the thread of the stream
It seems like a
> little out of the place there for a cable car as I remember the
area
> full of cotton fields.
the cable car may be for gauging the stream flow
not sure
& i must run from this computer now
apologies
later
m
Not a whole lot of pedestrian traffic except
> from the CA side. And that was all the snowbirds crossing the
border
> to buy prescriptions at a discount. There's actually a lot of
> Canadians in Baja.
>
> In response to Border Field, it is actually quite nice now the
state
> of California has spent a lot of money to upgrade this park that
very
> few people visit but that's fine by me sometimes I go there and
just
> relax and fall asleep listening to the radio in my car. Sure the
> ride's not pretty getting there (last time i went there were huge
> unpassable mounds of dirt in the road preventing my little car from
> passing) but when you can get there it's worth it. Oh, and the
border
> monument is much more easily accesible from the TJ side. Just
getting
> back over the border in San Ysidro takes a looooong time.
>
> Never visited the US/CAN border that's next on my list.
>
> VC
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> > welcome victor & thanx
> >
> > this strange collection of cooperative projects also fails to
> include
> > an obviously cooperative international cable car ride i recently
> > discovered running between a pair of towers straddling the
colorado
> > river very near the azbcca tristate point but which i neglected
to
> > photograph & so i do heartily commend & entrust that little
marvel
> to
> > you if you should ever wander so far east
> >
> > also the mxus coastal area at tijuana slough is so unsavory i
wish
> we
> > could dissuade you from that particular trip
> >
> > i think i do still recognize their pic of monument 1 there very
> near
> > the elpaso chnmtx tristate point
> > which i also recently visited
> > but now that you mention it all the mxus monuments & walls do
seem
> to
> > take an inordinate amount of abuse & mutilation for some reason
> > say as compared to the monuments on the canadian border
> >
> > m
> >
> > havent yet found the pix you mentioned posting tho
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "drpotatoes" <drpotatoes@h...> wrote:
> > > Howdy folks,
> > >
> > > I'm new to the group and this is my first post.... just wanted
to
> > let
> > > you know that the photos on this link are quite old and well
the
> > > border monuments don't look like that at all anymore. The one
in
> El
> > > Paso, #1, doesn't look that nice anymore. And #258 here in San
> > Diego
> > > has a huge steel curtain next to it and not that whimpy fence.
> Next
> > > time I'm down that way I'll take a photo of it and post it in
the
> > > photo section (#258 is about 20 minutes from me). I've posted a
> few
> > > photos of the border wall in the US-Mex section as well of
> > something
> > > I thought was quite interesting.
> > >
> > > Victor
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jesper & Nicolette Nielsen"
> > > <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > http://www.ibwc.state.gov/LANDBOUN/land_boundary.htm