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As mentioned elsewhere a couple of times, I like geographical oddities (e.g. furthest this, highest that). As a result, I've visited the only point in the U.S. common to 4 states (although it's been more than a few decades), the geographic center of the Contiguous U.S. and the geographic center of the entire U.S. (well, as close as you can get without trespassing on private property which, even for an oldster like myself, was still within rock-throwing distance). Places I'd like to see, just because? The northernmost point of the U.S. at Point Barrow on the coast of northern Alaska, about nine miles northeast of the town of Utqiaġvik and the easternmost point of the Contiguous U.S. at West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, Lubec, Maine (it's important to specify Contiguous, as the easternmost point of the entire U.S. is one of the Aleutian Islands  ). For whatever reason, the westernmost point of the Contiguous U.S. at Cape Alava, Washington doesn't hold a lot of appeal; I've no idea why. I do know that I wouldn't be entirely comfortable with the drive to Key West, Florida, what with all that water on both sides of the road;  the drive across Lake Ponchartrain in Louisiana was "interesting" enough, and that was just Interstate 10, not the almost 24 mile long Lake Ponchartrain Causeway.  |
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