welcome john & thanx for this blast of fresh air
enjoyed your pilgrimages to donner summit & kentucky bend & bristol england
oddly our own bristol virginia appears to function as both a city & a county too iianm
as do several other american cities in 4 or 5 states we are aware of
& for your exclave question you can add to your answer of ny & ky
which as you indicate do enjoy the only cases of disjunction within the so called contiguous 48 states
the several other american states whose offshore islands extend beyond the normal territorial limits of states
usually fixed at around 3 or 9 nautical miles from shore
these actually discontiguous states are
besides the relatively obvious ak & hi
within the contiguous 48 ca & fl & me & wa
& perhaps 1 or 2 others i may have forgotten
also it will be interesting to see your arlatx pic
for that may be the only multipoint anywhere that has become completely surrounded by a tree
ride em high
m
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "John Seeliger" <jseelige@a...> wrote:
> Sorry about the last message that got sent by mistake.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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].
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> [1]- <http://www.iseran.com/Atlas/ebbets.html>
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> [2]- <http://makeashorterlink.com/?T29F518D>
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> [3]- <http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2BF428D>