२० सप्टेंबर, २०१५

Let's visit America's tri-points! You know, trifinia!

There are 65 of them. Here's a map.
It has been more than six years since Brian bagged a new tri-point. “It’s a tough sell [to family] to suggest vacationing for the purpose of tri-pointing,” he said.

But Roger Simpson, 72, of Oklahoma City has had some success getting his wife and daughter to go along. The family’s Web site documents their travels to Oklahoma’s five tri-point monuments, all easily accessible by car.... “People would ask me, ‘Why would you go to such a desolate place. . . . There is nothing there.’... You are right, there is nothing there. That’s why I want to go there.”

१८ टिप्पण्या:

Eric the Fruit Bat म्हणाले...

They make fun of Raj's penchant for theme parties on The Big Bang Theory, implying that it makes him effeminate.

MathMom म्हणाले...

We went out of our way to stand at the Four Corners intersection this summer. Why not?

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Go in your Tri-pacer.

clint म्हणाले...

Is there only the one quad-point?

Roger Zimmerman म्हणाले...

Good trivia question - which three states do not have any tri-points?

JAORE म्हणाले...

Roger Z. Two are obvious, or stumpers if the concept doesn't click. The third is one of the prettiest places I ever visited by motorcycle.

Left Bank of the Charles म्हणाले...

Alaska has a tri-point with Yukon and British Columbia. Maine has one with Quebec and New Brunswick.

JAORE म्हणाले...

Why Left Bank, you old "One Worlder, you....

Ron म्हणाले...

There need to buoys on the Aqua Tri Points in the Great Lakes.

Phil 314 म्हणाले...

Equally exciting:

The geographic centers of every state

Likely few monuments to catch your attention.

Phil 314 म्हणाले...

Good luck getting to the geographic center of AZ.

अनामित म्हणाले...

If one wants to go to otherwise completely uninteresting places why not just blindfold yourself and throw darts at a map. Wherever the dart lands, that's your next fabulous $10,000 holiday.

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

You've never been tri-pointing until you've been tri-pointing with Suzy Favor Hamilton.

You know, triphilia!

LordSomber म्हणाले...

U.S. exclaves seem like they would be more interesting to visit, and would have just as interesting of a history.
Minnesota's Northwest Angle, the Kentucky Bend, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Exclaves_in_the_United_States

Unknown म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Unknown म्हणाले...

Go in your Tri-pacer.

mikee म्हणाले...

Tripoints are travel goals because there is nothing there?

I keep my "nothing there" all over the world, not limited by lines on maps, and thus can choose to visit "nothing there" on a beach in Hawaii or a ski slope in Colorado, rather than the ass-end of Oklahoma.

Still, I admire a person with a defined goal and a mission to complete it, no matter how whacky.

Nichevo म्हणाले...

Mikee,

Hitler called, he wants his old job back.

;-)