Pointless Prize: 2023 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[Kbikeva]

@cvcalhoun 224308 wrote:

2/16/2023 License plate
Question regarding interpretation here: Does a diplomatic license plate count as being from the country of its owners or from Washington, DC? (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. But if the Powers That Be don’t think this qualifies as Libya, I will replace it with one from California, taken on the same ride.

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Well, your post saves the rest of us from having to go out in the rain to look for something today!

[CBGanimal]

2/16/2023 License Plate

From Colorado! Maybe not the farthest but pretty far!

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[bikesnick]

2/16/2023 – License Plate
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According to Google Maps the distance from McLean to Seoul ~ 6935 miles

[JessicaH]

OK! 1379 miles from MD

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[Steve O]

2/16/2023 License plate

Awwwwwww!!!

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Mom’s love is both infinitely close and infinitely far.

[Mtansill]

2/16/23: license plates

Google maps said that this car was parked at the University of Maryland 2,765 miles from California.

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[consularrider]

#scavhunt – 2/16/2023 – License Plate

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Found in Shirlington, from Juneau, AK 3724 driving miles, 2831 miles as the bird flies, Anchorage 4276 and 3359 respectively. Eielson AFB, Alaska (if the vehicle owner is military?) is 4137 and 3252 respectively.

[consularrider]

@cvcalhoun 224308 wrote:

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 4847.34 miles away.

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, I will replace it with one from California, taken on the same ride.

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I thought about a dip or consular plate, but the wording of the challenge seemed to talk about the plate, not the driver. I did leave my Frankfurt, Germany plate in the basement since the photo couldn’t be of something we brought with us.

[AlanA]

2/16/2023 – License Plate

This plate is from so far away that humans can’t even read it!

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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

2/16/2023 License Plate
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Illinois – 545 miles as the crow flies from my house to the closest point on the Illinois border.
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My plan was to ride by a car with AZ plates that’s parked on a street about 2 miles from my house. I decided to do it at the end of my ride which was in the opposite direction of the AZ car. I also didn’t wear a waterproof jacket, counting on beating the rain. Both turned out to be less than stellar decisions. I got caught in the rain about 5 miles from home, and was too cold when I got to my house to do an extra 4 miles to see if the AZ car was still there.

[LeftyLaura]

Well we’ve had infinite love and tremendous distance, so I’ll appeal to the judges. You guys are the best, the most on top of the pointless prize that this plate screamed Serdar & Janet!!! YOU take the cake, you win the prize for being the best judges in Freezing Saddles 2023.

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[Kbikeva]

I rode 15 miles in five different parking garages looking at license plates. I found several California plates but nothing farther than that. So I dove back into the rain to get home and stopped 10 feet short of my husband‘s license plate and took a photo. When I got in the house, I consulted my very knowledgeable geographer (Ph.D daughter) and similarly brilliant geologist (son) as well as my local math expert (husband). All are map, globe and atlas geeks. After some discussion about which assumptions to make in their calculations, they all came up with about the same answer. Using the GPS coordinates of my husband’s license plate, if you go around the Earth in a line it is approximately 19,371 miles so therefore, I win! (he’s not worried about anyone seeing his license plate. He goes on the toll road every day.)

I do want to say that Reston town Center has an extraordinarily high concentration of vanity license plates. I think the Commonwealth must need to raise the price on those things!

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[bikingjenn]

2/16/23 License plate I checked for the city farthest from DC and it is in Australia but I went to the Indonesian Embassy before going to the Australian Embassy. Malang, Indonesia is 10,220 miles from DC. I left home early this morning to hit the two embassies before work, but I miscalculated the time and couldn’t hit Australia. When I arrived at the very fancy Indonesian Embassy I was sad because there were no cars (on Mass Ave). Went around the corner and there was a Diplomat plate. So excited I snapped the pic and sprinted the 10 miles to work (was late). When I got to work, I put the plate in the qz.com Diplomat plate decoder website (yes, it is a real thing). I was ELATED and did a little dance when it popped up as Indonesia!!!

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[DCAKen]

2/16/2023 License Plate

I figured that since diplomatic plates are issued by the State Department here in DC and not the country, they would count the same as a DC plate.

The plate from the farthest place I saw was this one from Washington state. The closest town in Washington is Clarkston (across the river from Lewiston ID), a mere 2,743 miles by bike according to Google

[camiller]

2/16/2023 License Plate

I stopped to take a picture of a Florida license plate on a car parked at the end of a dead-end street. Fortuitously, I noticed a “wormhole” through the woods in front of the car so I decided to check it out. Low and behold, an Alaskan license plate was found at the end of the wormhole!

Alaska – 4,284 miles from Virginia

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