Longitude: E 022° 27.960
After the jump, a few of the random places (and I mean random literally) that I visited vicariously last month that are "off the blue roads".
- on a small meadow 250m from the Baltic Sea in Estonia ("The point itself was quite boring; I met a nice ladybug on the meadow though.")
- on a hill covered in sagebrush and buckwheat along what used to be a stagecoach route from southern California's Conejo Valley down to the Oxnard Plain
- in mature woods, with both oaks and pines, of Reserve, Wisconsin, opposite the road from cranberry bogs
- in Tucson, Arizona, at the end of a cul-de-sac lined with palm trees and saguaro cactus
- near the clubhouse and community pool and playground and tennis courts and trails of The Village of Dorset Park in Burlington, Vermont
- near the 6th hole of the Bear Creek golf course in Morrison, Colorado ("There were quite a few golfers, but they paid no attention to me.")
- in the middle of a forest in Poland ("I wanted to make a little stop, eat polish donut, and drink coffee from the vacuum flask... but too many mosquitoes here, I have to evacuate as fast as possible.")
- in Missouri, down a seldom traveled two track in in tall grass, weeds, and brush ("Douq suggested I walk down the hill to zero the point...no way, I don't walk places where I can't see my feet.")
- in Shannondale, Virginia, in a large tract of wooded mountain set aside as a nature preserve and wildlife management area
- outside Philadelphia, in the yard of a house with a welcome sign in the shape of a baseball player in a Phillies uniform
- near a yellow house in Greenville, Pennsylvania, in the yard with a hearse sitting in the weeds ("it's probably been there a long time")
- in Tracy, California, in the yard of a house with a pair of fiberglass(?) deer
- in a garden center in Piercebridge, UK
- at the entrance to the Garden Place Senior Living Center in Millstadt, Illinois
- in front of the front door of Emmanuel Bible Chapel in Foundryville, Pennsylvania
- behind a Checkers restaurant in Maryland
- on an island in an ornamental lake in The Arthur Westlake Memory Reserve west of Melbourne
- along the footpath that goes over and down the river in the UK's Newbiggin wood
- in a soy bean field in Minnesota, irrigated by a center pivot sprinkler whose nozzle was spraying across the road
- in a flat, sandy area in typical juniper woodland with a few pine trees in Oregon's Deschutes County ("The Cascades, still with a modest amount of snow, were barely visible from the top of a rock outcrop near the dashpoint.")
- outside Chicago, on the merge ramp that is hit from the southbound Interstate 294 merging ramp that goes to westbound I-90 ("I would guess that thousands of people, likely tens of thousands, hit the scoring zone of the dashpoint every day.")
- and in Betterton, Maryland right on Chesapeake Bay, near a street sign with numerous arrows ("Death Valley (2666), Niagara Falls (469), San Francisco (2892), and Bozeman (2150)")
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