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Indeed, thanks for clearing that up. So if that stretch of Andrews was legally vacated it would become the property of the adjacent landowners. Question now is whether it was actually vacated.

Interesting, Boyd. I happen to live on a court, and my survey shows my property line is the outside curve of the curb around the court. This neighborhood was layed out with streets and plots. It may be that your plot was layed out before that street was planned. Is there any easement on your...

Thanks for following up. I was just curious from the standpoint of formal land ownership. For example, in my neighborhood we own our plots, and our plots include the sidewalks, which we have a maintenance covenant on. The land that the road occupies is not deeded to anyone who owns a home here...

Those sound like different cases, though. In your first post you mentioned that the state "vacated" the road and it was now private property, meaning a deed had changed hands, I guess, since that's how private property becomes private, or perhaps an easement restriction on a deed was removed...

Thanks for the background, Guy. I forgot to mention, and maybe it has already been reported: the eastern gate was knocked over, obviously having been hit hard by something, and then dragged to one side. The western gate was intact. The approaches are well-posted, of course, so we didn't go in...

Just thought you guys would like to know that Martha Road north from the turnoff to the pumping station all the way to Andrews Rd. has been widened recently. I was up there a couple of months ago and it was very overgrown, and much pinstriping resulted. Going through today I barely scraped a...

Yeah, they have a process now where you're allowed to present various combinations of documents in various classes, i.e. a passport is a class 1 doc, and it might be equivalent to 2 class 2 docs. You need at least three in any case.

I'm not sure someone walking over a cemetary viewing the stones is that much less likely to cause damage than someone walking around one trying to feel a disturbance in the force. As long as people don't break things, paint things, walk on things that shouldn't be walked on, or leave things that...

I think if you are not uneasy about the future, you haven't read any history :).

I have a copy of this that I bought from a used seller on Amazon. Great book. If you like it, you may want to check out some of McPhee's other works. I also own "Looking for a Ship" and "Uncommon Carriers." McPhee is sort of a thinking man's George Plimpton :).

Spirits of the dead are souls trapped in the earthly plane of existence, due to strong emotional ties to some place, or person, or to having died suddenly and violently and without time to prepare. It makes sense that the souls of those who died long ago would have moved on and been reborn...

You can process the image data on the PC in any mode the camera can produce, but you're right in that raw mode gives you all of the originally captured data, without compression.

Yeah, I hear you. I admit to using pshop to enhance the contrast and reduce the gamma of images taken on my trips. I look at it as using my memory to put back the light and color that the camera missed :).

It's fascinating that "give me a call" was in colloquial use before the invention of the telephone. I never knew that. I would have expected "call on me," or "pay me a visit." Shows what I know :).

Most of the digitals I have played with overexpose the sky. I'm not sure why, but I bet a polarizing filter would do wonders to add some contrast back in.

Anytime :). Oh yes, avoid the patches of water lillies and reeds in the north end of the lake. There are some very shallow bits in there and it's no fun dragging yourself across that mud, as I discovered :).

I was just up that way in kayaks a couple of weeks ago. Lake seemed high, water flow was strong but paddling was no problem other than at the shallow spots where the water rushes over gravel. Try to stay to the outside of the bends and you should be fine. We made it to the bridge below Martha...

Oh much less than 90 minutes :). 45 minutes east from the gap on 80 and you are in the Whippany area; deep suburbia.

That's not a problem. Purchases of Canadian real estate aren't limited to citizens any more than purchases of our real estate are. My Dad owns over 80 acres in Quebec that he bought from my great aunt before she passed away.

Here is a person who understands life :).