21-Feb-2001 -- After 32N/93W and lunch, I was ready for another! This
confluence is just north of Logansport, the first town on
US Highway 84 after you leave Texas. I took Louisiana 764
north from town to a good dirt road that was shown on the
USGS map, and proceeded east through two open cattleguards
into the day's second forest, this time mostly hardwood
with, again, abundant thorny undergrowth. A point on this
road showed 400 feet from the spot, so I decided to investigate
a little more before bushwhacking in. I was very lucky -- a
road too new for the topo map doubled back to the west
toward some new gas wells. This road got me to 78 feet from
the confluence -- Picture #1 shows the GPS unit hanging
upside-down like an opossum and saying so. Picture #2 is
a view into the brush within a estimated 50 feet of the
paydirt.
Picture #3 is a gas well about 400 feet west of the
confluence; my thanks are in order to Cross Timbers Operating
for making my path so easy. Picture #4 is an old building
a few hundred feet SE of the confluence. Finally, Picture
#5 is a monument 3.4 miles northwest of the confluence
which was set in 1841 to mark the boundary between the US
and the Republic of Texas. The plaque nearby says that this
is the only international boundary marker known to still
exist which is surrounded by the US on all sides.