March 29, 2004
Confluence Visit!

Among the adventures we had in Mexico was a successful visit to the exact confluence of 30 degrees north latitude and 111 west longitude, which happens to be in the middle of a mesquite bush.

Ever since stumbling upon "confluence.org" I have been fascinated by this project to locate and photograph the confluence of all the whole-number lines of latitude and longitude on earth using GPS devices. There's a game not only in finding them, but in being the first to do so, which we were!

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Posted at 4:57 PM
Category: Geography