The “turn left” simple solution didn’t work, to my utter amazement. Fortunately I found a drawing of the layout on Early American Gardens.
Too many treetops obscure the image especially on the left side of the maze. A Google satellite view doesn’t do it justice. I needed to examine the layout to make sure. The old Governor’s Palace Maze is found there, located appropriately enough behind the Governor’s Palace at the northern end of the Palace Green. The more I examined the memory, the more I came to believe that it must have been formed at Colonial Williamsburg on the Virginia Peninsula. They quickly become ensnared and disoriented within the maze’s devilish twists and turns. It was great fun to watch people take that initial wrong turn. The other part I remember was that there was an earthen terrace or hillside outside of the maze where one could see the entirety of the structure from an elevated position. I found that simple solution utterly clever, and it’s a lesson that’s stuck with me ever since. Nonetheless, I can vouch that I fell for it and turned right, whereupon I wandered around for awhile until I finally hit the center by chance. I don’t know if any science actually exists behind that claim. It was based on a premise that most people turn right by instinct. They’d wander aimlessly in every conceivable direction if they took the very first right turn instead. Visitors went directly to the center of the maze if they took the very first left turn upon entering. The solution to the maze formed the basis of my recurring memory. We never traveled very far during my youth. It was probably somewhere nearby, either in Virginia or elsewhere in the mid-Atlantic United States. I recall visiting a hedge maze with my family. It must have come from my early elementary school days, maybe I was six or seven years old. The hedge maze stirred an old, distant memory from the back of my mind that comes to the surface every once in awhile.
#HEDGE MAZE FULL#
Nonetheless, there’s a tripoint here and they have a hedge maze so it meets all requirements for full 12MC approval. It’s now found on the Caribbean island of Saba. The Netherlands highpoint is no longer anywhere nearby. Also, I feel I should make a minor correction to their site. There are now playing a lot of our games and outdoor activities such as off Drielandenpunt Sterrenslag and schietcompetitities consisting of clay pigeon shooting, archery, crossbow and air rifle shooting.” In the beginning of the last century there was even an airport on the Four Country Point. Until 1919, the Drielandenpunt a Four Point Country with ‘neutral’ Moresnet fourth country. “The Three Country Point is famous for the confluence of boundaries and the highest point of the Netherlands. Google Translate does only so well converting a Dutch website into English: The Drielandenpunt at BEDENL serves as quite an exception. However, the preponderance seem to be marked with a simple stone pole or obelisk. Most multi-points don’t garner nearly that level of attention.
It pleases me to see BEDENL as something of a tourist attraction. They all mean the same thing: a place where someone with sufficient foresight and a keen sense of humor planted shrubs in a pattern purposely designed to impede one’s progress for fun and amusement. I found a hedge maze! I’ve seen them called garden mazes, labyrinths and various other terms, too. I noticed an interesting topiary feature. I poked around that place where Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands share a common border, better known as the BEDENL tripoint, using Google Maps satellite view the other day.