ayin jade Posted April 20, 2009 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.87 Content Count: 43,799 Content Per Day: 6.19 Reputation: 11,244 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted April 20, 2009 SALT LAKE CITY - Tourists who want to put a hand or foot in each of four states at the Four Corners area are apparently off the mark - by about 2.5 miles. According to readings by the National Geodetic Survey, the Four Corners marker showing the intersection of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah is about 2.5 miles west of where it should be. Link to the full article Ooopsy. Living in Arizona we of course did the tourist thing once and got pics of us at the monument. Guess we will need to do it at the real site now lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Believer1997 Posted April 20, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 66 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 6,363 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 119 Days Won: 9 Joined: 11/07/2008 Status: Offline Share Posted April 20, 2009 Technicalities..... people get so picky, don't they?? What's a couple of miles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted April 21, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.94 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Say it isn't so! I had my picture taken there as well . . . lying down. I titled it: "Lying in four states." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted April 21, 2009 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.87 Content Count: 43,799 Content Per Day: 6.19 Reputation: 11,244 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 The Navajos set up booths around it, selling jewelry etc. I just love hitting those booths. One of them had a big homemade sign "get you photo with a real Indian." We took a photo of that sign with my husband in front of it and told folks as a joke that it was his new job lol. Good times there lol. I doubt anyone will move it, but if they do, come on back out Neb and get some photos taken. I can probably get a relative to take you into canyon de chelly too, a private tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted April 21, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.22 Reputation: 9,763 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted April 21, 2009 No wonder I never went there ... maybe, if they get it right, I'll go ... No pun intended toward nebs picture ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted April 21, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.94 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I doubt anyone will move it, but if they do, come on back out Neb and get some photos taken. I can probably get a relative to take you into canyon de chelly too, a private tour. Sounds like fun! We actually toured through there on the trip, too. It was crazy windy that day - *warning, touron comment ahead* - we actually got to experience a real sandstorm!!!! (**Cough! Cough! OK, nostalgia is over. Once is enough!**) Anyway, the wind was still blowing like crazy at the visitor's center area. When we walked outside, we got hit with a huge gust of wind - blowing our hair and clothes out all over and stuff. One of the guys in the group (keep in mind this was the early '90's, so you might have to dig in your memory for this), but one of the guys in the group blurted out, with appropriate gestures to match, "You know, when I bite into a York Peppermint Patty....!" Anyway, I remember how once we got inside the canyon for real, all the wind ceased. That made the tour doubly nice. But I remember Duck Rock and the White House and symbols that looked like swatztikas. I never knew before that the Nazi's had taken the symbol from ancient religion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axxman Posted April 21, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 3,292 Content Per Day: 0.52 Reputation: 11 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/21/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted April 21, 2009 Man...global warming is messing everything up.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorywatch Posted April 21, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 88 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 692 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/02/2008 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/02/1946 Share Posted April 21, 2009 That is funny. It reminds me of something my dad did once. He got a map at NASA of the area where he lives, because they had just recently done the maps from newer satellite imagery. He got home, looked at the map and called NASA to speak to the person in charge of that department and told them the map was wrong. He told them one road was a mile off from where it should be. They assured him it was not, to which he replied, "I have been the Parish engineer for years, lived here for over 30 years and I KNOW where the road is. You don't. It's wrong on the map." I got a kick out of, cause my dad was the only person I know that would call NASA and tell them their maps are wrong. Turns out my dad was right and they were wrong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgedrw81 Posted April 22, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,823 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 36 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/10/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted April 22, 2009 Glorywatch ypur dad sounds like mine but could not use Nasa pictures because the pictures were not 'certified' copies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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