Sorry about the last message that got sent by
mistake.
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
Lake, with the inent of reaching Ebetts Pass[1], but it was farther than we
expected, so we decided to go just to Pacific Grade Summit, which as I recall
was 8,050 feet, the highest I have ever been above sea level (outside of an
airplane), and <http://www.bicyclinglife.com/Recreation/SierraSpring.htm> agrees, but
<http://www.iseran.com/Atlas/pacific_grade.html> claims
is at 8,087 feet (perhaps that is the peak at the top of the hill, which I did
climb and there were several brass disks up there, IIRC, but I didn't have the
camera -- Roger did -- so no photo of that, only of me climbing and perhaps the
road sign, if I can find them.
I will try to pass on the address of this group to rec.puzzles if I post
there any time soon (the like geogrphical oddities, like the Kentucky and NY
enclave thing)[2] and on alt.usage.english, which has a lot of geography
discussions too (for example, which cities are also counties)[3].