A Note on Arrival Time

[Terry Sorchy]

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Thats fine Kiev. Do your best, I am very flexible as you know. Adapt and overcome.
Cheers
Terry Sorchy

[Kiev Thomason]

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Thats fine Kiev. Do your best, I am very flexible as you know. Adapt and overcome.
Cheers
Terry Sorchy

We are gonna leave about 5am so hopefully we will get there around 4 pm with stops for food and gas..thats my guess.

[3rd arkansawyer]

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Brian.

According to Google Earth the GPS cordinates for Lotus , La. (yes, its on the map) is:
31 29"`' 15.99
93 07' 31.80

[Alamo Guard]

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All this talk about GPS, and fancy fangled gadgets. I remember the old days with a map and compass. Back many moons ago while going through Ranger Camp at Fort Benning we used the old ways. They would bury our c-rats under a metal stake painted orange. If we wanted to eat we had to find that 18 inch stake using our map and compass.
GPS is nice but doesnt really give you the oipo features like a good made map.
The maps supplied to me at BGR were great. I had no problem finding anything except the armies who changed their timetables with telling me, heheheheh.....

[BrianHicks]

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Utilizing a GPS while driving is much easier than trying to handle a map while steering and navigating country lanes and back roads, especially when street signs are sparse. Even in the big cities, with multiple roads packed in close together, or exits off the interstate, one right after the other, having a GPS which gives you the street names, and tells you to " Take exit 215B, Spring Street on the right in 200 yards" is very, very nice.

Having made numerous cross country journeys during my life of military service where I had only the old map system, and then in more recent years using Mapquest and other on-line trip planners, changing over to the use of GPS has proven to be a remarkable difference.

Using Lat/Long coordinates to get to the registration point for Marmaduke's raid was great.

If the location of the registration point for IPW can be provided in the same manner, it will make getting to that specific location much easier than using a map.

[Old Reb]

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Dusty,
But that was Roger's Rangers you were training with and weren't your enemies French and Indians? Things have changed and you need to upgrade your old flintlock.

[Rob Murray]

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Rob,
I figure we will use the same camps Monday night as we did for BGR. That means the Federals will be in the briar patch and the Cofederates in the bog. Lovely biouac sites they are! As Terre indicated, once we step off, we will be pretty much cut off from anything and everyone until we stumble out Saturday.

Brian, If Uncle Tom is telling us the truth, just go to where we were the last time.:D

Dusty, Maps. I didn't need no stinkin' map. Just followed Fred. Only got lost once or twice.

[Hank Trent]

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All this talk about GPS, and fancy fangled gadgets. I remember the old days with a map and compass.

Compass? You had one of them new-fangled compasses? I remember the old days when all we had to go by was moss on the trees and the sun. :p

A couple months ago when I needed to get to the stepping-off point for Out of Capitol Prison, I arrived at Union Station in Washington D.C. at 4 a.m. and had to walk about four blocks to meet my ride. I tried to find my way using a map by following street signs and going by blocks, but the Union Station area is a maze of driveways, parking lots, alleys, and things that look like streets and blocks but aren't, when they're all deserted.

So finally I decided I needed to go southwest, looked at the moon, aimed southwest, and kept walking until I got directly to the corner. You can take the boy out of the country...

I just hope I can find my way as well at ITPW. :p

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net

[Old Reb]

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Rob,
Isn't that a bit too simple to tell the good Gunny to go back to where he was two years ago while knowing he has slept since then?:) And you fellows in blue can just follow the trail of hardcrackers and chicken feathers the Rebs will leave for you to track them.

[DougCooper]

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Brian, If Uncle Tom is telling us the truth, just go to where we were the last time.:D

Dusty, Maps. I didn't need no stinkin' map. Just followed Fred. Only got lost once or twice.

If Fred is still toting the giant knapsack and white blankie it will be no problem following him, day or night :D

[Alamo Guard]

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If folks are worried about how to locate then registrations site. Prehaps an opened container of the "Natchez Spring Water" could be placed upon a tree stump?

[Rob Murray]

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I'm there Dusty!

[yipper]

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Gents,

For the map/sign reading impaired:

Lotus Camp: Natchitoches Parish, Lat 31.483 Long -93.123

Cane Camp: Natchitoches Parish, Lat 31.487 Long -93.122

regards,

geoffrey lehmann