Pointless Prize: 2023 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[AlanA]

@Steve O 224242 wrote:

Right, “errandonnee” is the noun. However, the verb “errandonneuring” has the e before the u, as a mashup of “errand” and “randonneuring.”

I’m amused by the discussion about made up words posted by someone on the internet.

I guess I could create my own word and call it Erranddearing. Thelma Lou asked her dear husband Billy Bob to pick up some more Pork Rinds and blogged it about it once.

[JoM]

2/15/2023 Little Free Library

The Alliance Française de Berkeley has a Little Free Library that looks like en un petite Alliance Française de Berkeley. The inside even has wallpaper printed to look like bookcases.

[sszibler]

@LGRides 224257 wrote:

2/15/23 Little Free Library

Countryside, VA

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Nice bike lean. Not quite a GCN epic, but a very nice looking stead.

https://dotcom-globalcyclingnetwork-65pl5i4uo.qa.globalcyclingnetwork.com/video/8-magnificent-ways-to-lean-your-bicycle

Look for their video on advanced leans – lining up the valves, biggie smalls and such.

[consularrider]

#scavhunt – 2/15/2023 – Little Free Library

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Jada’s Garden, 913 Cottage St, Vienna

[camiller]

2/15/2023 Little Free Library

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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

2/15/23 Little Free Library
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Located where the W&OD crosses Sunrise Valley Dr in Reston

[bikingjenn]

2/15/23 #scavhunt Little Free Library and big free Arlington Central Library–love public libraries!
This super cute LFL is on the corner of N 5th St and N Kenmore St

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[sszibler]

2/15/23 Little Free Library – Puzzle Post

I wanted the “Frida’s Garden” puzzle – of course! But it was bigger than I wanted to caring to Hains Point without a backpack. Photo on Strava.

Washington Post

Puzzle Post in Washington, D.C.

A residential corner of D.C.’s Hill East neighborhood is home to this puzzle-lending library. After she passed time during the pandemic solving jigsaw puzzles, retired attorney Suzanne Nyland wanted to share the fun with her community. Neighbors can borrow, lend or swap puzzles. In case a piece goes missing, Nyland makes replacements using a 3D printer.

Starting with one library in September 2021, the “Puzzle Post” continues to grow. Suzanne added a second little library for kids’ puzzles and just added a third. Nyland says she has been surprised by the community support.
“People will stop by to talk. … It becomes a water cooler on the street,” she says.

Prince Of Petworth (PoPville)

Thanks to Austin for sharing:

“A creative use of a Little Free Library, there’s a puzzle lending library in Hill East.
Passing time during the pandemic putting together puzzles, the owner decided to pass on the fun to the community. Neighbors can borrow, lend or swap puzzles. In case a piece goes missing, the owner is working on making replacements using a 3D printer. Within blocks are other creative Little Free Libraries- one filled with toys and another with free art by local artists. To join the puzzle fun, the “Puzzle Post” is along C Street SE in between 13th Street SE and Kentucky Avenue SE.”

[Steve O]

2/15/23 Little Free Library

My riding buddy found a useful book in my nearby Little Free Library

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[cvcalhoun]

2/15/2023 Little Free Library
This one at 130 Ritchie Avenue in Silver Spring has been written up as a particularly creative one. It was made from a grandfather clock.

[Nadine]

@cvcalhoun 224187 wrote:

2/13/23 Unique architecture
The Mushroom House of Bethesda

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Oh good I was hoping someone would get the Shoom [emoji177][emoji265][emoji1360]

[cvcalhoun]

Deleted; posted wrong place.

[Nadine]

@Kbikeva 224200 wrote:

Stacked shipping containers?

And 1/13/23?

That’s what it looks like but it’s actually a house

[Nadine]

2/15/23 little free library

At the dominion hills playground – around the corner from my house – and just off the w&od

[cvcalhoun]

2/16/2023 License plate
Question regarding interpretation here: Does a diplomatic license plate count as being from from Washington, DC or from the legal residence it betokens? (It doesn’t really belong to any particular state, but it was presumably issued by a Washington, DC agency.) Because the “FM” on this one indicates Libya. Which is 4,847.34 miles away.

Edit: Diplomatic plate decoder says it is from Japan, so 6,770 mi. This won’t actually matter, since we’ve already got farther away than that, but I am curious.

This doesn’t come up with other kinds of license plates because the issuing entity (e.g., the state of California) and the legal residence signified by it (that one is a resident of the state of California) are the same. (Even if you get a California license plate while living in DC, because you are military, it is because you are still considered a legal resident of California.) But this one is issued locally but is available only if one’s legal residence is Libya.

But if the Powers That Be don’t think this qualifies as Libya/Japan, I could replace it with one from California, taken on the same ride. However, at this point, it probably doesn’t matter, since we’ve got a regular license plate from Alaska and a diplomatic one from Indonesia.

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