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Subject: Re: U.S. distances (was Re: 17 mile drive by motorbike) Posted on: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:37:38 EDT

On 10 Jul 2005 00:18:24 -0700, tkuniok@calstatela.edu wrote:

>
>
>Hatunen wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:49:22 -0400, pltrgyst
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:05:27 GMT, patty1@wintertime.com (Patty Winter) wrote:
>> >
>> >>To someone accustomed to western U.S. distances, it was really bizarre!
>> >
>> >Guess you've never circumnavigated Four Corners then, eh? 8;)
>>
>> I've stood on it. Not very exciting, and nowadays they charge
>> you.
>
>They charge you to stand in the middle of nowhere? Geh! Is this part
>of fee demo?

The Navajo Nation has apparently made it into a sort of park:

http://www.navajonationparks.org/fourcorners_monument.htm

But it doesn't mention a fee. None of the stuff you see at that
web site was there when I was in 1966. Except, of course, a
concrete slab with the marker embedded in it.

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