I finally decided to find out the true location of Elora, Ontario, Canada, the home of our good buddy, Derek Graham. All this time I thought he was WAY UP THERE in the wilds of Canada. Then I discovered he is further south than the entire States of Washington, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. Half or more of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Maine are further north than Elora.
Next, I suppose we'll found out he speaks with a Mississippi drawl.
He is also further south that me in NH (I'm at 44-15N)
... and southern than me, I am at 49-48-17 N .....(24-00-00E though ;-))
Yuriy
Now I understand why you have all of that snow in the background of your avatar photo.
What is the large track about 3 kilometers south-southeast of your location? There appears to be a large sports complex to the southeast of that. Or is it something else completely?
Derek is one cool cat. I looked up Elora a loong time ago when there was much complaint and theories of good reason about a certain Ok. weather machine...
I believe he also worked with/for Kent at one point. No?
My Dear Religious Bovine Friend .....
Yes, North Aboyne Farm is south of some portions of the Great 48 + 2.
It's a warm and fuzzy feeling to be with such friends and surveying colleagues even when in my Winter surveying kilt as seen in the avitar.
Yes, I did occasion a short and pleasurable opportunity to accompany a most distinguished surveyor, young Kent McMillan on his beat.
I'm still waiting for his experiential recovery though, that would permit him to experience more than one season ! 😉
Remaining,
Your Obedient Servant
PS-
HC
Do e-mail me off the Survey Connect board some time please.
Oh, the things you learn when you didn't mean to
In my mind, feeble as it may be, I have always pictured what would happen if I were to go straight north from my home until I hit Canada. First, I would be on some county road in Minnesota running north until I hit this giant black stripe on the ground running east-west. Border guards would then escort me "to the other side".
It turns out that would not even be close to what would happen. Especially as I would need to be on a boat. A few minutes ago I discovered that where longitude 95-10 hits the US/Canada border (49-00) falls in the middle of Lake of the Woods somewhere between Muskeg Bay on the US side and Buffalo Bay on the Canadian side. This is a very short distance to the west of where the border begins being on the 49-00 latitude line. A few miles further east and I would hit Canada quite a distance further north at the northernmost point of the continental US.
Where would you hit Canada if you went north on your longitude? OK, smart guy, not everyone here can do that. It would be one heck of a trip for Yuriy in the Ukraine via the North Pole.
Yuriy
this is a horse racetrack, has been there for a while I remember it from my childhood days, it has been always very quiet, I do not remember any events there :).
That new arena se of it was finished last year, and tree football (soccer) matchers were taken there during UEFA Euro 2012, it is amazing that entire thing was built just for three matches, it is not used much either since than.
picture on avatar was taken in Canada, but it snows here well, this winter city was paralized by heavy snowfall for a few days, ...it was like in a willage - you could hear dogs barking from a really long distance (no cars no noise) 🙂
Oh, the things you learn when you didn't mean to
... after i pass the north pole I would get close to Barrow in Alaska and I guess I would deserve a cup of free coffe 🙂 
straight north to O Canada
I'd head right up the 72 deg longitude line cross hit Quebec near Derby Line Vermont in about 60 miles.
Oh, the things you learn when you didn't mean to
Looks like I would be traveling roughly 25 miles west of and parallel to the Illinois/Indiana border much of the way.
Pass a little west of Evansville Indiana,
then somewhere between Champaign and Danville Illinois,
just on the west side of Chicago,
through Milwaukee and almost through Green Bay,
have to swim across part of Lake Superior and at some point start treading water waiting on the border patrol to allow me to cross into Canada
Oh, the things you learn when you didn't mean to
You would have to swim about four times further than I would, but, it's still way too far for this old, fat boy. My entire life I had envisioned going straight north and driving up to the border patrol office. Never realized that I would be stuck out in the middle of a lake.
Looking at your path, it's apparent you would want to skip over to Isle Royale, Michigan, then swim east to get back on the correct longitude at the Canadian border. I wonder how often the residents of Isle Royale get visited by their elected politicians for business, not vacation.