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The pike that leads to Chestnut Neck, by any chance?

Oh, lots more if we go to Newark. Must be hundreds there.

You should come up north some Saturday or Sunday. I could show you ten or twelve in one day, at least. :)

One of the most thought-provoking exercises for me, is to use GE or some other aerial imagery tool, and just scroll slowly along anywhere within the flood plain of a major river system, looking at the terrain artifacts. This is especially illuminating in the Mississippi river plain as you scroll...

Yeah I was reading about this earlier today. The Morganza spillway is pretty impressive. You can see it in Google Earth just north of Morganza. 4000' feet long with over 120 gates, and has only been opened once, in 1973. You can also clearly see how the water will flow down the flood plain to...

Well that sucks. From the look of the keel I'd say they found some of that hard water.

Heh, when I was a kid we went back in the woods near my old man's house and started a similar cabin project, except ours was raised up on four tree trunks sunk into the ground at the corners. We got maybe 10% done when it started to be clear how big a bite we'd taken. For all I know that 10% of...

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Jerseyman, the property owner on the far right of that map... is that meant to mean "Widow Conrad?"

I know that intersection well! But I don't recall hearing the term 'turkeyfoot' applied to a junction like that until I read your post. I find it very colorful and descriptive, and I'm trying to work it into a story I'm writing.

"Turkeyfoot," that's great. Never heard that one before.

Ah, I see, thanks for the clarification. There's two up in the Lebanon that would qualify: a six-way at Woodmansie, Glassworks, and Egg Harbor, and a five-way at Coopers, Butterworth, and Plowed.

Are two different areas being described here? The snippet you posted seems to be referring to the intersection near the Sooy place (tavern? hotel? I don't know) near Washington, but then you go on to talk about a spot a good bit further north. Or perhaps I am confused.

I didn't realize you were using Terraserver. I've always found it slow, and MyTopo does seem a lot faster.

Not cave country by a long shot. Sandstone caves, I think, like you see out west, are often formed by erosion, whereas the caves that are more typical in the east are formed when limestone is dissolved by seeping ground water. Plus the water table is so close to the surface, as was mentioned above.

I guess that's one way to look at it, Al. Another is: that's what kids are capable of when they are driven and whipped like a mule team toward a single goal. I guess it's possible that these kids all just spontaneously turned into guitar prodigies at the age of six or eight because they really...

If anything I would think they'd stop playing as soon as the Dear Leader releases their relatives from cultural education camp. Nah, seriously, they look like they're enjoying themselves, but I can't imagine how much of their 7 or 8 years on the planet has been devoted to learning to play like...

Both those sites are pretty damn cool. The second one is the best topo site I've used, in terms of load speed.

If I remember right, you teach guitar? Do you think the following video is real and represents an actual performance? I'm thinking it does, and I'm not sure whether to be amazed or saddened or both. Well, actually, I can't help the amazed part, so the deliberation is whether to be saddened. I...

I've been all the way down it from 206 to Quaker Bridge Rd. several times in the last couple of years. It's not too bad. A little narrow in spots, and if you drive too fast the locals have special hand signals they use to suggest you slow down.