Part #2 of My Crosscountry Adventure

[Puma concolor]

Sli-

Webmaster Roger Rowlett is in the middle of a major re-vamping of the highpointers.org website and doesn't seem to have much on there about the 2005 Konvention yet. I assume you're familiar with Mohamed Ellozy's website. He's very active with the Club and if you navigate to his "Highpointing" section, he has a page on the 2005 Konvention with some basic information.

BUT, if you are really interested and want to be really up-to-date, you might be interested in joining the Club. It's only $15 a year and you get a quarterly newsletter (really, it's more of a magazine - last quarter's edition was 28 pages). It has a TON of information on everything that is highpointing. Click on the "membership" toolbar on the website or send to:

Craig Noland
Membership Chairman
PO Box 6364
Sevierville, TN 37864

You're definitely right about the time and money thing. That's what all HPers struggle with. I've got 23 so far and I'm also looking to get to the 45 plateau within the next 7-10 years. My HPs are all eastern though, so I think your 19 beats mine in terms of quality.

 

[RoySwkr]

Border Patrol

Quite an adventure, do you get 2 months vacation every year

I believe that the Border Patrol sites are mostly looking for illegal aliens. It is too hard to guard the whole border so they set up at "choke points" on major highways that they will probably use to reach cities. Like weight stations to catch trucks they are more effective if moved around but it looks like the locations are becoming semi-permanent and soon everyone will just dodge them. Being old and white they never give me any trouble but I have read notes from Latinos thinking about how easy it would be for them to shoot you and toss your body in the desert for the vultures.

All of my funny stories have been at the Canadian border.

 

[sli74]

I wish I got 2 months off every summer, that would be sweet!!

No, I finally finished grad school earlier this year and decided that savings was meant for exactly this kind of adventure so I took time off before starting my post-doc in Boston to play a little bit . . . and the crosscountry trip was kind of a late night, drinking 12 cups of coffee while writing my thesis revelation and I am thrilled to say that I have accomplished almost all that I had planned and then some . . . so I gotta say, been feeling like the happiest gal on the planet lately.

I understand about the border patrol guy and wouldn't have been nearly so unhappy with the experience had I not been trying to rush to the hostel and had I not been so utterly confused what the border was to

sli74