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.”
September 20, 2015
Let's visit America's tri-points! You know, trifinia!
There are 65 of them. Here's a map.
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They make fun of Raj's penchant for theme parties on The Big Bang Theory, implying that it makes him effeminate.
We went out of our way to stand at the Four Corners intersection this summer. Why not?
Go in your Tri-pacer.
Is there only the one quad-point?
Good trivia question - which three states do not have any tri-points?
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.
Alaska has a tri-point with Yukon and British Columbia. Maine has one with Quebec and New Brunswick.
Why Left Bank, you old "One Worlder, you....
There need to buoys on the Aqua Tri Points in the Great Lakes.
Equally exciting:
The geographic centers of every state
Likely few monuments to catch your attention.
Good luck getting to the geographic center of AZ.
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.
You've never been tri-pointing until you've been tri-pointing with Suzy Favor Hamilton.
You know, triphilia!
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
Go in your Tri-pacer.
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.
Mikee,
Hitler called, he wants his old job back.
;-)
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