2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words

3/31/24 – taboo

If I could take pictures WHILE riding I woulda taken one of the guys I rode with today riding up a clearly marked one -way street going the other way. Unfortunately I’m not that talented.

So I got one of me tryna go into the men’s room. Except my arm is only long enough to show either the door or the sign in the selfie, so I’m by the sign. 😁🤷🏻This is the bathroom on Joyce & Beach

Great stuff @cvcalhoun! Jessica too has lotsa cool gadgets. You guys have in common that you have /had high earning jobs (she was a surgeon.) While I succeeded in finding the job of my dreams, my dreams didn’t were all about helping people and getting like I was making a real difference – and lotsa that kinda work tends not to be high earning…. 😁 Thus, fewer gadgets 🤷🏻

@nadine, understood. And the video camera was expensive. (I justify it to myself because I don’t own a car, and I can buy a whole lot of bike gadgets for less than the price of a car.) But a selfie stick with a tripod is currently $15 on Amazon after a coupon. Not saying you should buy one, but if it’s something you want, it’s here:  https://a.co/d/iA9GJeW

4/1/24 FROND no joke, the frond I found was near the end of the memorial ride in the tile art outside La Pirouette cafe (which I have always wanted to try). The entire art piece was in a public art entry of mine during FS several years ago.

4/2/24 SERUM is used in health science studies. We had a rainy adventure to find the new NSF location. Lots of laughs. Found some fun public art to add to the Alexandria Art Ride too.

4/4/24 CLIMB

Google bicycling directions told me to keep going straight at this point, but my bicycle can’t climb stairs!

This was, by the way, only one of many ways Google bicycling directions failed me.  It took me on a two-foot wide path up a hill so steep I could barely walk it, much less ride it, even before I got to the stairs.  Then when I got to the stairs, it assured me that my destination was only 0.2 miles away, so I figured I’d walk the rest of the way and would be back soon enough so I didn’t even need to lock up the bike.  But when I got to where it took me, I was rather sternly informed that this was private property and I should get off it.  So then I tried again using the name of the building (New Hampshire Estates Elementary School) instead of the address.  It then took me to a different wrong address.  I finally asked around until someone told me where the school was.  Once I found it, I discovered that they had renovated the playground where the piece of art I’d come to see was, and it wasn’t there anyway.  But meanwhile, I ended up walking 2.6 miles instead of the less than half a mile I anticipated. I was relieved that a) I even managed to find my way back and b) my bike was still there when I got back there.

@bikingjenn, take all the time you need! I’ve spent several years trying to think up ways to motivate myself to get out there outside of Freezing Saddles time when I have nowhere in particular to go–typically looking for a past scavenger hunt or bingo item each day–without anyone else participating at all. It’s more fun when there are others doing it, regardless of whether they manage every day.