Why go confluence hunting ?
There probably are as many different answers to this question as there are confluence hunters, but here are a few reasons: • Tim Vasquez “Confluences are interesting to me because they represent randomness that emerges from strict order. It goes far beyond a silly quest for invisible man-made boundaries. The confluence latticework is an open defiance of the order our culture imposes on us, which frowns on tourists who abandon the travelled roads, the sanitized vistas, and the stops designed to conjure up dollars for empty memories. Confluences are in curious places that embrace you in their history, character, and ecology, surrounded by people who are locals in every sense of the word. You simply haven’t experienced a region unless you’ve tried seeking out its confluences.” • Luis Felipe Trigo Boix “One thing that I like a lot about Confluence hunting is that this is a place that you have never seen (and many times will never see again), that you know exactly where it is, you do not ho
