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@Boomer2U 225212 wrote:

3/09/23 – Rainbow [emoji304]

This morning’s sunrise over the frozen Navajo Trail at Bryce Canyon National Park reminded me of a rainbow. Note: this was the start point of my ride this morning, FYI.

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Poster worthy!

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@Nadine 225211 wrote:

3/9/33 – rainbow

This is in the fence outside oak something elementary school in falls church – where Kathy R’s girls went to school.

Also I wore my [emoji2523] socks for the occasion [emoji16][emoji2523][emoji1377][emoji304]

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Nice, this works to accentuate a “ride-find” with something from home! Also I’m inspired to do that to all the plain fences now…

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@LGRides 225209 wrote:

3/9/23 Rainbows

Hawaii is the Rainbow State, as depicted on my jersey. Also, my phone case has rainbow paw prints. [emoji3590][emoji3448][emoji172][emoji170][emoji171]

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Super cool, but you need to find it on your ride to count!

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@sszibler 225172 wrote:

I was confused too, because I thought it was originally Pago Pago as in the place, but I checked and this was the last post you guys posted. I think Pango Pango came up easier on the internet too. So I figured I dreamed Pago Pago.
I have more info/photos of Pango Pango too. It’s his pot that’s at Chili Bowl and why it tastes so good. I made that part up (and someone else made up the rest!) lol!

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It was spelled out Pango Pango in the song lyrics I found, maybe just to match the pronunciation. Definitely referring to the place, though I don’t think there really are alligators there. The cooking pot I haven’t heard of.

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3/8 Rainbow of drying dyed flowers make art
Across from Alethia Tanner Park off MBT in Eckington NE DC
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@sszibler 225145 wrote:

Here’s a better photo of the Cooking Pot location. I guess it doesn’t matter which day since we have the whole week. Hopefully, going out of the app for awhile works. Attachments are so awful.

Pango Pango

The second photo is Ben’s Chili Bowl on Ben’s Chili Bowl Way (U St. where I almost was right hooked by a high speed chase, squealing wheels and all – I was shaking for quite awhile after that). There’s no way the chili could be so famous unless it was actually being served from Pango Pango’s mysterious Cooking Pot that takes many ingredients and turns them into something fantastic.

“Pango Pango is one of the gods of Mystery Island, who blesses users with special items for giving him the proper gifts at the Cooking Pot. It is implied that Jhuidah’s magic is also required for the Cooking Pot to function correctly, as when she went missing in the Mystery Island Volcano plot, users were required to use a recipe that doesn’t usually work.”

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Slow on the uptake on this one – can you explain the Pango Pango / Pago Pago connection?

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3/7 700 block Monroe Street NE DC
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3/6 Continuum by American sculptor Charles O. Perry, 1976, National Air and Space museum
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Custom car
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3/5 mural across the street from Glut coop in Mt. Rainier, MD
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Basketball goal
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3/4 sculpture outside the National Portrait Gallery
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Flowers

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@cvcalhoun 224991 wrote:

I would like to get an answer to this as well. If I can get credit for both the lines and the bulldog today, that seems worthwhile. Otherwise, I might save the bulldog for a day when the regular item is harder to find.

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If you find the bonus items, you can post them as additional photos while still finding the daily item for the regular daily points. An exemption from the usual one-photo-a-day rule.

But the bulldog must be wearing pants to count!

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@sszibler 224985 wrote:

Exactly. It’s written “for kids to enjoy” or parents with kids. I’m neither.

It also sounded like a direct rebuke to seeing the Wizard of Oz as anything but another silly kids story with wonderful streets of gold.

I’m definitely not against seasoning this sometimes difficult life with large doses of thankfulness for the many wonderful things surrounding us, but living in a fantasy world of trickle-down wonders is just too much Blue Pill for me. There’s a subtle difference between thankfulness and “positive-thinking” that blocks out realty. So, it bugged me when applied to adults. But I’ve been crabby lately. Catch me on a better day. As a “philosophy” (not a kid’s purview to begin with), it’s putting your head in the sand a bit.

Ha ha, figured some people might not like a silly happy Pollyanna-ish song but others might find it nostalgic.

The origin of this theme was actually a kid (mine) trying to figure out how to find an excuse to ride to eat donuts

We were trying to come up with a way to make a week theme that included donuts without just doing a daily pastry. And I remembered that last year’s photo scavenger hunt made me see the world I biked by a little differently when I was looking for some basic things like a specific shape or color. Hence, lines and squares, which sound pretty boring but can potentially change an outlook.

Anyway, glass half empty / glass half full… Watching the donut, not the hole… Just different ways to look at the world, admittedly a little saccharine.

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