golito was indeed too easy but i made the most of it

the 2 legged omens were spectacular
first a pheasant 
soon followed by turkeys
then a great blue heron 
& a pair of geese with 6 goslings
all very near or actually crossing the road right in
front of me
 
& that was just the first mile on the way down cream
hill

but the tripoint proved so obvious & simple that i
would have had to complicate the try somehow
just to have something to report

which in fact i did 
albeit inadvertently at first
by mistaking the goli town line on deming road for its
goto counterpart 
while still en route to the actual target area
& by then even finding a heavy steel u bar painted
yellow & red & very securely planted on goli there
right beside the road
which i initially mistook for the golito marker itself
 
even despite its unusualness & my misgivings about it
til i carefully reread the welcome signs & topo
when i finally realized where i actually was
as marked by the cursor cross here
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4627967&e=649003&s=25&size=l&datum=nad83
& that i still had another quarter of a mile to go for
golito

already feeling rather silly at this point

but by the time i finally pulled up at the second road
surface change & second pair of welcome signs 
which is to say the correct ones
i had just caught sight of the true golito marker in
the veggies about 50 feet off the road

already no doubt about it at that point

that was that & i fairly well knew it


after making my way down to the marker by balancing
precariously on a rotting log
rather than simply walking along the ground 
which i imagined to be swampy tho it proved to be only
a bit spongy
i found the marker was a very ordinary 20th century
jobbie in cast concrete rising only about a foot above
the ground
inscribed g & l & t on the appropriate faces
but already dilapidating substantially into litchfield

still it was the best preserved multipoint marker i
have ever found anywhere within connecticut

after a perfunctory pat on its top dimple 
i finally had to figure that the true tripoint was not
at all right there where it was supposed to be but
already about a foot to the northeast of the visible
part of the marker


the only wild 4 legged critter i met on the entire
outing was a turtle 
tho this was on the home stretch

he was also crossing the road in front of me & at a
good clip too
heading in the direction of the belmont stakes 
& or united nations
as i figured 
only about 100 miles due south of there

since this try was in honor of the world cup tho 
i imagined him in the race for the world class
naturally enough
tho i realize i may have been confusing my tripoint
try with a triple crown as well as a hat trick in this
case

well
post time again


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