I just joined this group this morning and I wanted
to say hi to everyone in the group. I found this group through
sci.geo.cartography which I also only recently found. I am a (temporarily
unemployed) software engineer from Dallas and unfortunately I am not well
travelled (mostly in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisana and Memphis Tennessee
and through Mississippi on my way there, the only time I have been east of the
Mississippi River and also been out of the US once, but only for one day to
Madamordos, Mexico, and I was pretty young and barely recall it and also once to
California) so I don't have a lot of photos of significant markers that I have
been to, but I somewhere have photographic evidence that I have been in Texas,
Arkansas and Louisana at the same time and I have also been to one of the major
peaks in Sierra Nevada mountains. When I visited my uncle in Murphy's
California (in the Sierra foothills, near Stockton) back in August 1989, my
cousin Joy's husband Roger and I went on a brief trip into the mountains,
stopping at Alpine