Has the "All Clear" sounded?
If so, may I submit this challenge until Lom arrives on scene?
should go like a jet engine;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz31.jpg

Monument commemorating Frank Whittle and his association with Rugby (school). On the base of this monument is a map of the world denoting what the jet engine has done for the world.

Frank Whittle Sculpture - Chestnut Fields, Nr Park Road, Rugby, Warkwickshire,
N 52° 22.506 W 001° 15.759

And, if correct, I won't post another challenge, in anticipation of lomapasseo popping up.

Correct. Sir Frank Whittle's Memorial at Rugby.

So, just for the sake of good order: We are waiting for lomapasseo's post or open house declaration - I won't post another challenge, because I will be off for a week. If someone wants to take this from here, help yourself.

It's not an airport:

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/14226132-lg.jpg

So, just for the sake of good order: We are waiting for lomapasseo's post or open house declaration - I won't post another challenge, because I will be off for a week. If someone wants to take this from here, help yourself.


Oh good grief ..... I won:confused:

It was just a wild A$$ guess and I have been flying back from SLC all day

Open bar to anybody .... to get this thread rolling again :)

Look above your post, unless we entered a time warp.

Split Rock Lighthouse, Silver Bay, Minnesota, USA ?

If so, open house :cool:

That's it.

Found one...



http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n630/imnotfromuranus/P1010404-1.jpg

Port Isaac,Cornwall

Yep, too easy eh..

Open House.

Still open house? Might be easy but interesting architecture nonetheless...

http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc452/pprunefoto/Photo442.jpg

Just to move this along a bit, the architecture is inspired by the Himilayas, but the location is far away. Here are a couple more hints. The palm trees may help find the location, and there are unseen mountains in the background. Every building, and there are many, has the same, distinct architecture.
http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc452/pprunefoto/Photo444.jpg

http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc452/pprunefoto/Photo445.jpg

University of Texas,El Paso,Texas.(The Library)

Correct, Sabredog.

UT El Paso (UTEP) architecture was the inspiration of the wife of the first dean of the old Texas School of Mines. Around 1917 she saw a National Geographic article about Bhutan, and convinced her husband to design the campus in the Bhutanese style.

Today the campus is a beautiful testament to that vision. The first Bhutanese students to study in the US came to El Paso, and today UTEP remains the most popular campus for students from Bhutan.

Remarks by Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck (http://admin.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=53787)

Thank you,Matari.
Open House

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a113/threadbaron/6f1f1d49.jpg

Central park


or did you want the name of the third building from the left?

[QUOTE]central park[QUOTE]

http://www.centralpark.com/updata/Media/centralpark.mov

I don't see it lom..... :confused:

Well, there's a hour of my life I won't get back. I thought I saw a citgo logo on one of the buildings but they are in Houston and this wasn't Houston. Looked at city skylines but didn't find it. It's up to the next shift.

La Defense District, Paris,La Defense District.

The square building with hole in it gives the game away.

http://www.gothereguide.com/Images/France/Paris/La_defense_Grande_Arche.jpg

Is the park in the photo named central parque ?

if so open bar

That wasn't a challenge lomapaseo - it was a confirmation of threadbaron's pic and sabredog's correct answer.

Krekt, sabredog. Pic taken from the Tour Eiffel.

One has to spot the building and the hole first, sisemen. :p

I think lomps was after collateral kudos with Central Parque. Nice try, son! :ok:

Many thanks.Threadbaron.
The next challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz34-4.jpg
Should not last very long!

Should not last very long!

I think that you are wrong. In my experience lumps of granite like that one tend to last quite a while.

Sabredog's, from the previous page.

Governor's Island, New York City.

The plaque on the front states: “This bronze propeller was cast directly from one of the Wright brothers’ wooden propellers. Two were used to propel the first United States military aeroplane, a 1909 Wright. The original was loaned to the Early Birds, by the Smithsonian Institution, National Air Museum - Paul E. Garber, head curator.”

Search Words: Propeller Statue

Presume correct. Here's one for the next shift. I'll follow for a few hours until duty time ends.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm107/APC11Fan/Challange1.jpg

Correct,11fan.

ART MUSEUM, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, U.S.A.

Correct sabredog,

She's yours to fly.

Thank you,11Fan. I submitted the same challenge a little while ago!
The next chalenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz343.jpg

I submitted the same challenge a little while ago!

Hmm, wasn't paying attention I guess. Grasping at this latest one. How about a tidbit?

Well known stretch of the U.K.'s coastline,though not English!

Tresilian Bay and caves,Glamorgan,Wales.

Mr G.

Correct,Mr.Gubby.
YHC

Sorry, nowt to post.

OH.

Mr G.

Ah well, I'll dip my toe into the water again....

Clue - it's not Australia!

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/allan907/UK05-06-No1079-1.jpg

It's a five barred gate in the countryside. Given that the Thames is topical in UK news right now, is it the Thames?

It seems to be overgrown, wet moist climate year round with little sun and dreary winters.

I doubt that it is Seattle what with the still water

Not the Thames and it ain't a river, but there might be beavers.

Scotland ?

G.

Between 52 and 53 north.

I'd think that this was somewhere in the Midlands and that this is a canal/waterway

Very nice photo, wherever it is.

Sorry, had to sleep for a few hours :} Midlands it is and, yes, a canal. There is a really massive clue in an earlier post.

Lower Mill Estate near South Cerney

Considering that South Cerney is about 22 miles south of 52 N I'd say you were a bit out :}

Let's narrow it down a bit more.....

between 0 and 1 W

That should give everyone a nice box to work in.

I didn't look at that 'twas just a BBC article about the re-introduction of Beavers 'tis all !

Belvoir Castle,Grantham,Lincs?

Close enough Sabredog.

Actual location is on the Grantham canal at 52 54 21.67N 0 44 46.88W

If it hadn't been quite so misty then Belvoir Castle would have been visible in the distance.

Thank you,Siseman. Quite close to Langar airfield is it not?
The old 1/2 Mil is still useful at times! Excellent photograph.
Open House.

Belvoir Castle,Grantham,Lincs?


OK, right, I see, spot on... Beaver?

Belvoir is pronounced Beaver.:ok:

One pruner is " Justin Cider Belvoir " :D

OACI code?

http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab53/SINGAPURCANAC/Muzej/DSC_3783-1-1.jpg

He's back and on the wrong :mad:Forum.:ugh:
Have fun people.:ok:

..and another "Airey Belvoir" :D

Sabredog ...... the world awaits your challenge

SINGAPURCANAC,

Banja Luka Airport (BNX/LQBK)

Iz "objektivnih" razloga postavljamo samo ovakvu sliku starog i novog tornja, Direkcije za Civilnu Vazdusnu Plovidbu Republike Srpske.

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/BL2-1.jpg

Open House if correct.

Reg

your turn maestro...
:ok:

Staying with the same theme then but a little older.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32684975/building.jpg

Name of place and ICAO for the airport/airfield where it located on the downwind leg.

Exascot, yours is X2BW RAF Broadwell airfield control tower.

Open House if correct

EGVN Brize Norton

Coleby Grange - Waddington

Bugger! No, it's definitely Broadwell.

RAF Broadwell & EGVN correct. Wish I had a pint for every time I have flown over there.

RegDep -- Nicely done!

Now, how do you pronounce "Iz "objektivnih" razloga postavljamo.."?

v3m,

how do you pronounce "Iz "objektivnih" razloga postavljamo.."?

I don't. I dont know how to pronounce serbian (which I think the language is called). It is just a quote from the site that features the picture (and the blogger's location reads: Mauritius, soon or later).

The GoogleTranslate says it means something like … "for the sake of objectivity I post a picture of the old and new tower (of the) Directorate of Civil Aviation of the Republic of Serbia".

Indulge me by NOT looking at the urls for these two, which are sometimes mistaken for one another by students.

http://www.planesgalore.com/CaliforniaAirports/AirportHaywardCalifornia.PNG

http://www.edab.org/images/living/fullsize/OaklandAirportHills92Bridge.jpg

OAK, Oakland CA.

I did, but won't play.

Hitting the European hay, me.

OAK is correct for the second pix, the other is slightly south.

I think the phrase "Do you see a large tank?" was used sometimes.

Once, I was cleared to land at an OAK general aviation runway by flying from the southwest over the SF Bay and the main runway. Spooky to be the only one in that airspace.

Once did a delivery to Romsey Airfield in Victoria, Australia and elected to land on Rwy 33. Unfortunately, local knowledge had it that the only permissible landing direction on that strip was Rwy 15 because of the presence of the Australian Army Proving Ground at Monagetta tracks of which were within 300 metres of the threshold (ERSA didn't - and still doesn't - mention that fact).

So, the question "Can you see a large tank" was quite apposite - a feckin great Leopard tank with a plume of dust behind it and an equally feckin great gun pointed straight at me!

Not the sort of tank I had in mind, but times change. :ooh: :sad: :eek:

Something over 30 hours have passed since the last message on this thread.

May I submit a new challenge?

seacue

Does seem to have dried up of late - why not ?

Please do seacue.

Here is a challenge, easy for the right person. Perhaps hard for others.http://members.toast.net/rcarpen/WhereQ0924.jpg

As the originator of Which Aerodrome? MK-1, I am happy to plot a course away from aerodromes on the present thread.

BTW, the missing second airfield in v3m's challenge was Hayward Executive Airport, Hayward, CA. This was not clearly spelled out.

I agree with your plot.

I just spent days driving through parts of the US which could qualify. Photo could be Calif, Colorado, Utah, northern New Mexico just for a start. Pretty country [2100 miles of it].

Yes, finfly, you are in the correct area. Sort of toward the eastern / central (north-south) part of the area you quote.

I don't know why my green light was on.. I've been away from the thread for half an hour ... and going away again.

Other hints: Mountain Time Zone. Not New Mexico

Boulder, CO? Flatirons?

Oddly, it looks like Mt McKinley, with far more trees and civilization.

Eastern side of the Rockies looking West.

I've always wondered what people traveling in covered wagons across Kansas first thought when they saw the Rockies arise and loom over the horizon.

"I think I'll stop on this side, thank you very much" seems like one of the milder expressions that would spring to mind.

OH if correct.

The rockies in winter.

Did you want something more? if so please spell it out.

The woman's name in the picture is Susan she is waiting for the bus to SLC

Free beer on me if correct!!

Yes, Mr. Miles. Those are the 5 Flatirons in Boulder Mountain Park, Boulder, Colorado.

I, too, wonder what the explorers and then settlers thought when they saw the Rockies looming up. By 1850 or so, when my great grandfather went to California, they knew of an easier route though southern Wyoming. I have the binoculars which he is said to have carried on that trip.

The woman's name is NOT Susan. The bus probably goes to the depot in downtown Boulder. The picture was taken in early 1959. The street in the foreground is Baseline Rd ... exactly 40 degrees north latitude.

Vis3mi has declared OPEN HOUSE.

Time I stirred things up here. :p

Well, me Queen. Post something. That would beat the content of most of us out.

http://f1147.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f860222%5fAI%2b3iGIAAMRIToD8ogdY4lVTIsM&pid=2.2&fid=Inbox&inline=1

Jetsy -- I recognize a blue box with a white question mark in the middle, and it's on my computer screen.

Bad link or open house. :8

Meanwhile...

http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles33325.jpg

Estes Park, Co

...overy
...odge
at the bottom left was an easy "giggle" (first hit)

Interesting my first hit was New Zealand, followed by Canada but I don't think Phillips 66 has got to either of those countries.

Open House - regrettably

Probably not very challenging :

http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Helios340/WITW27SEP11.jpg

Was that place on an episode of 'Top Gear'?

Not to my knowledge, and a quick Google didn't show that it was.

Magilligan - Greencastle Ferry. Greencastle in the background.

Somewhere on the Isle of Mann?

Thank you,Capetonian.
Nothing to offer at the moment, so;
Open House.

You peoples is too quick. Maybe this one will hold you for a while: What is it? Where is it?

http://members.toast.net/rcarpen/WhereQ110927.jpg

LBJ Birthplace

free beer if correct

Sorry, nothing to do with any US president.

It is in the USA, farther north than Texas.

It's not Walden Pond although it looks warm and cozy.

Even Davy Crocket's birthplace in Tennessee had a chimney :uhoh:.

Considerably farther west than Walden or Tennessee. There must have been a chimney since the area in question gets cold in the winter. Perhaps the chimney is hidden by a tree. This building has been moved a few miles from its original location into a park. It was part of a very famous but short-lived endeavo(u)r.

Forty-niners?

It was a highly-organized endeavor, unlike the every-man-for-himself, get-rich-quick mentality of the 49ers. There is some connection with California - though this building is not near that state.

Must ne railroad, then…..

While highly organized, it was a much-smaller effort than building the railroad.

It operated before the railroad got this far. The railroad followed a similar route.

I expect to be away from my PC until about 20 hours Z. I may be able to check progress about 16 hours Z.

seacue

Considerably farther west than Walden or Tennessee. There must have been a chimney since the area in question gets cold in the winter. Perhaps the chimney is hidden by a tree. This building has been moved a few miles from its original location into a park. It was part of a very famous but short-lived endeavo(u)r.

Cattle drive to a railhead?

Pony Express cabin outside SLC

Pony Express Cabin in Ehmen Park, in the other Gothenburg (not in Sweden). Gothenburg is the Pony Express Capital of Nebraska.

If correct, goes to lomapasseo.

RegDep Has it. Lomapaseo said outside SLC ... that is not very near this part of Nebraska. Who HAS CONTROL ?

RegDep Has it. Lomapaseo said outside SLC ... that is not very near this part of Nebraska. Who HAS CONTROL

This is not a control issue. I try to be polite although I get confused sometimes with what is the question?

Is it about the building or scene? or just a precise geograpical location?

No way would I have guessed the precise geographic location (without researching Giggle for a building that was repeated at many similar locations.

OK to cut down the extraneous chatter and following this quote

Pony Express Cabin in Ehmen Park, in the other Gothenburg (not in Sweden). Gothenburg is the Pony Express Capital of Nebraska.

If correct, goes to lomapasseo.

BTW it wasn't inside SLC so I'm not wrong :)

Name this location (city), extra point for the building

http://fromtheflightdeck.com/MEL/PPRune/77-08-02.JPG

I draw so heavily on lomapasseo's ID of the building that I felt it were just fair not tho claim seniority. Sorry for confusion. All well now I hope :).

Edit: Two original ones left says a source.

San Diego, Balboa Park. Back in a minute.

There's several museums there and I need to go ID which one this one is.

OK, it's called the Botanical Building. There are about eight museums there. Great place to spend a day.

That is an older picture too. When was that taken?

Disclosure: I've been to Balboa Park a couple a dozen times.

Someone wanna poke lom with a stick? ;)

Lom must be talking his afternoon nap.

balboa park botanical gardens - Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sugexp=pfwc&cp=16&gs_id=1r&xhr=t&q=balboa+park+botanical+gardens&qe=QmFsYm9hIHBhcmsgYm90YQ&qesig=s0NYNGtejr-nQBRkMXtwLg&pkc=AFgZ2tmUbc5Bj4RIeUjesU02MxIP8-VedskyoyY9xODLtx-THoCsaeRiMiu5NUHMnws89VbLHMWnGWcrNWf7psf_0-THm2fMZw&biw=999&bih=545&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi)

So, to keep it moving. Location, or event. Hint: Once a year celebration.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm107/APC11Fan/Challange2.jpg

Someone wanna poke lom with a stick? http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/wink2.gif

Patience my boy patience or are you like this in sex as well :)

yup, the pic was taken in 1976

11Fan

Calgary, with a US entry

Calgary, with a US entry

No sir, but it is the US. Clear clue in the picture if you can identify it. It's not the sign.

Whoops I interpreted the flag as being on the wagon and not a flagpole.

Oh Oh I forgot about the C of C

Let's see C of C are common to many cities as are parks visitor centers, trees and parades

How about Cody Wy ?

free beer if correct

No beer for you. :p

Borax will lead you to the clue in the picture.

Borax will lead you to the clue in the picture.

Borax :confused:

20 mule team freight wagon in death valley ..... a clue??

Ok another guess

Snake River Utah

time for a beer

sorry I only have one left :sad:

You're almost there..... Not Utah though

Mule Day 2011 Parade not in Utah but when in Utah you are almost there.

Hmm.

Let me see that map again.

Columbia, Tennessee?

And if "almost there" is in the other direction, we always have Bishop Mule Days, Bishop, California.

I see RegDep added this to his post.

And if "almost there" is in the other direction, we always have Bishop Mule Days, Bishop, California.

That is it sir. You have control. By the way, Borax - Mule - Mule Days Parade.

The road outside of Bishop coming down from my fishing hole, just for grins.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm107/APC11Fan/LLH.jpg

And the fishing hole itself. Eastern Sierra's.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm107/APC11Fan/FishinHole.jpg

As a balancing act:

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-09-28um112245.png

Whoops what manners :\: Thank you 11Fan!

Bodie CA (Ghost Town) by chance? Just up the road?

Quite welcome sir.

No, Sir, I said balancing act: Not in the U.S.

Duh. I'll circle back around. Lunchtime fun and games over.

Me gone. Back in the CET morning.

Is it in the Skansen outdoor museum, Stockholm, Sweden?

How about the Berenty Private Reserve in Madagascar?

As a balancing act:

Antipodes Map - Antipodal location for any map point (http://www.antipodemap.com/)

Seacue is in the correct region, 11Fan is sure balancing :D.

Clue: More to do with Epos than Pathos.

OK, we gotta sort this out: Birth place of a doctor, better known for something else (the man, not the place).

Edit: Last clue: Collector and Editor of a National Epos.

If not cracked in two hours, will be cancelled, not to waste good playing time.

Crofter’s hut

Birth place of Elias Lönnrot. Sammatti, in the province of Uusimaa in Finland.

Birth place of Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884) in Sammatti (Southern Finland), and maintained as a museum. Lönnroth was Finnish philologist and folklorist, collector and editor of the Finnish National Epos, Kalevala, which at the time of publication in mid 19th century and ever since, has been one of the cornerstones of the identity of Finns.

Jetsy has it! :ok:

BTW: Name "Crofter's Hut" is probably invented for the Internet purposes.

Thanks RegDep

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j183/jetmarg/du.jpg

Australia, Jetsy?

I'm pretty sure that's not a South African beach.

Not Australia, but the hemisphere is correct.

Cape, not South Africa.

Myanmar - Malaysia?

Sibu or Tioman Island

Not Australia, but the hemisphere is correct.

Myanmar - Malaysia?

Reg : Having an off day?

Sorry RegDep, not Malaysia.

Cape, that small "-" is a proxy for "or" :)

Sibu and Tiomar were second thoughts.

Jetsy, does it leave us Thailand, or do we need to head to South America? You don't say it's New Zealand (Cape: that was a second thought).

Reg : What I meant was that, as far as I know, Malaysia is, in its entirety, in the Northern Hemisphere, and our quizmaster tells us that this lovely beach is in the Southern Hemisphere : Not Australia, but the hemisphere is correct.

RegDep, I DO say it is in New Zealand... :)

Taken just a few days ago but there are almost identical piccies on the web.

Name the beach.

Looks like Motiti Island in the background, but I don't recognise the boat ramp - not Mt Maunganui/Waihi/Whiritoa/Onemana etc. I thought maybe Mana Is. but there's no white sand down there.

Cape, I stand (sit, in fact) corrected and humble :(, not far from humiliated by myself.

The sand is brownish-yellow……

Amberley, Leithfield, Waikuku or Woodend

It is not on the North Island.

edit: typo

Very good. Tata Beach, top of the South Island at the entry to Abel Tasman Park. The 'island' is actually Farewell Spit. It was the sand really - too yellow for the north BOP

I'm away for a bit - open house

Or Kaiteriteri beach ...

Ah yes but if you only go to Kaiteretere you miss the Takaka Hill and Pub.

Is places like Invercargill NZ out of the running?

Tata Beach it is! Northern tip of the South Island.

This from some random website.

http://goldenbayhomes.co.nz/pics/Tata-Beach2-sml.jpg

Here's another NZ coastal one - I don't expect anyone to know where it is as there won't be too many pix from this attitude, just posting it for interest sake only :) .....

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj274/toolowtoofast/onapproach.jpg

Not wondering about your pseudonym any longer…...

Could you please post a pic of the crash site?

Generally proceeded by the comment "Hang on, I saw this in a cartoon, but I'm pretty sure I can do it."

A new quiz

Partial credit for what it is and country

Full credit for the city

http://fromtheflightdeck.com/MEL/PPRune/83-03-02.jpg

Cloth dying factory India...Mumbai?

Let me collect partial credit for laundry. City was called (by us) Bombay at the time.

http://www.lenttravel.ca/john/IndiaImages/Bombay%20Laundry.jpg

If it's my turn,

o h

http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Helios340/WITW30SEP11.jpg

Whitby.

I'll post a picture soon.:p

Cloth dying factory India...Mumbai?


Sorry was out of town all day

When I took the picture it was the Bombay Laundrymat

Doesn't look like anybody got full credit so let's move on with whatever is up. :)

It's the sea-front [Shore Rd] at Peel (Isle of Man). Peveril Terrace and Mount Morrison is above Shore Rd in the background. "Empire Garage" is the sign that's been excluded from the building on the sea front.

Open House

TCF

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v397/bucktaf/IMG_3762.jpg

Another I don't know where it is photo:

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/3954845-md.jpg


Annotate your photos with more than a date or at least something.

Sorry finfly, didn't see your post.

Yours,
Ms or Mrs, not Mr,
vis3

P.S., Apologies for not making that clear earlier.

The pool, where great parties still take place, is the outdoor pool to this.

http://www.hearstcastle.org/wp-content/uploads/romanpool.jpg

greece outdoor pool statues

leads to Hearst Castle California.

Note outdoor versus indoor. Wouldn't mind either. Indoor perhaps better.

Cheetahs are known to be faster. :) :ok:

Rosebud.

V3m

Do You have to identify all 3 photos currently up in order to win a prize :confused:

Finfly

Hearst Castle, CA?

The Creek Inn, The Quayside, Peel, Isle of Man, IM5 1AT

Aaa, not a challenge?

No, not a challenge, and it's in the northern hemisphere!

So we have (had) Hearst Castle Neptune Pool (outside) and Roman Pool (inside) for finfly11, Capetonian's Creek Inn was no challenge, and we have Ms. v3m's lost piccie yet to to find for her, but not to Mr. v3m.

Hmmm.

Edit: Visibility, can you offer andy help to narrow down the geographical or object sphere we should look for this from? I have by now seen so many reliefs that my eyes require some relief.

Reg

FWIW, Hearst Castle, San Simeon, Calif. is correct.

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQJkyrJGjOE9FpqU78Fw7lAfP9WcneOAuPP3iN4KUeHCoifutbR_A

Excellent ! RAF Ringway.

Ringway | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44340545@<hidden>/4888014139/)

In the preceeding picture of a building, although the road layout had changed, I used to be allocated a staff parking slot in front of it in 1972 when I started work at MAN and with no real security used to stroll diagonally over the apron to get to the crew room !

Regret OH


Edit for addition

Wodrick has control

I had seen the original long ago, worked ther all my life 'till VR.

Open House

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a113/threadbaron/c665b186.jpg

lomapaseo As we turned eighteen, it was made crystal clear we should leave the nest. Once the last of us flew, momma bird did too, along with a camera. We only returned (reflocked?) for the holidays.

As to a prize, how's this: :ok: :ok: :ok:

Original Headquarters of the Marine Police, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong .Now a shopping Mall.

RegDep I don't know where it is. Aside from a wide swath down Mexico, Central America, and points south, try anyplace that an excursion from a cruise ship going through the Suez Canal is likely to visit or could reach.

It does not look like Egypt, Italy, or Greece, especially with the buddha(ish) figure. Turkey and India are possible, maybe (doubtful), but I've never been there so don't know.

Asia is what it says to me, so maybe a bus or short plane hop from a cruise destination is where to look.

Since I do not know where it is, it is not a challenge so the thread can go on.

Does anyone actually pay attention to what their parents say they'll do on vacation when you're busy with your own life?

She was in Mexico City when an earthquake flung her out of her hotel room bed. That caught my attention, so I wasn't a total ingrate.

She was in Mexico City when an earthquake flung her out of her hotel room bed

What year was that? As I also was in an earthquake in Mexico City back in the mid-70s.


Sorry to interrupt here, it is one of those 'small world' things.

an earthquake flung her out of her hotel room bed

As I also was in an earthquake in Mexico City back in the mid-70s.

Different hotel room one hopes, or that really would be a small world.

Probably exactly the same year, month, day....

Sorry, correction, it was probably 1985.

And when I say "flung", I mean, "Oh, I am on the floor on the opposite side of the room."

I wasn't there.

P.P.S., Perhaps I am an ingrate.

Maybe it was in the 1970's. I was in college/grad school in both decades, so in retrospect think it was the 70's. Have no way of knowing what hotel, aside from it not collapsing.

I've never felt an earthquake like that. It would get my attention.

I knew someone at Travis who watched each joint/paving gap in the runway give off a puff of dust as a distant earthquake rippled through. He thought it was interesting.

Sorry, correction, it was probably 1985.


Nope, I wasn't there for that one, heard about it. Not such a small world after all.

sabredog

Correct. OH.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32684975/Tower.jpg

Sturup ATC tower, Sweden.

May I propose that we leave the airports and ACT towers for AH&N What Aerodrome thread (unless there is some other interesting object there that would not qualify the callenge there). With all respect due, of course, Exascot.

Open house if correct (on the tower count, that is :}).

May I propose that we leave the airports and ACT towers for AH&N What Aerodrome thread (unless there is some other interesting object there that would not qualify the callenge there).

That's probably a good idea and would be a bit of a leveller for those of us who, like myself, are not as familiar with airports as you professionals are with your view from the pointy end of the aircraft!

Anyone like to have a go at this? I need the name of the establishment, as the geographic location is pretty obvious from the architecture.
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Helios340/WITW02OCT11.jpg

Nice picture, no idea where, but I wish…..

BTW, those interested in control towers, here you are 233 of them control tag (http://www.flickr.com/groups/controltowers/pool/tags/control/show/)

RegDep, correct of course.

That's probably a good idea and would be a bit of a leveller for those of us who, like myself, are not as familiar with airports as you professionals are with your view from the pointy end of the aircraft!

Oh shucks now I don't stand a chance, OK :cool:

Capetonian, is your establishment subsidiary to the building visible up on the hill, the other way around, or are they not connected at all?

The building on the hill is probably located on the same property but I think it is irrelevant.

I know that I've seen this cottage but I'm beggared if I know where!

Zevenwacht Wine Estate,Kuils River. S.A.

That's the property, Zevenwacht Country Restaurant is the establishment?

Of course, this should go to sabredog….

Hats off ........... both answers correct, Regdep's is more precise.

You both deserve a:
http://www.grapeescapes.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/zevenwacht-syrah-07.jpg

Oooo errrrr... wrong part of the world for me; I was a squillion miles away and a memory of someplace else entirely.

Meanwhile... Zoom in on the street signs and truck for clues.


http://gallery.photo.net/photo/1820758-lg.jpg

For grins, as Halloween approaches:

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/6789485-lg.jpg

St Louis Arch, St. Louis, MO

Nothing too obvious then?

Awww... You didn't get distracted by reading the signs?
I got to that viewpoint by following the most convoluted instructions to the Arch (from mapquest) I've ever seen, but it got us there.

Over to you.

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/1820756-md.jpg

Lets try this then:

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j35/helokat/LaFawnduh%2008/az6.jpg

Gordy's stands, but V3M, here's one I took.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm107/APC11Fan/TheArch.jpg

Did you go up?

View looking down.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm107/APC11Fan/GoingDown.jpg

Gordy, I'll guess yours as the Colorado River near Needles California.

11Fan

Nope...

Gordy, I don't know where yours is from, but there are similar events elsewhere. This one is called "Beer Rafting".

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-10-02um220656.png

(not a new challenge)

Same idea...add sound systems also: This will give a tiny hint as to the country at least.... Although I am sure most had figured that bit already...

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j35/helokat/LaFawnduh%2008/az10.jpg

Well, for mine, the floating sauna could speak volumes of THAT country…...

If Gordy's photo is in the USA, as the flag would imply, then it must be the anorexics' day out as none of them seem to be overweight.

OK, going by the terrain, gotta be close. How about the Kern River, near Lake Isabella? If not, I have one more choice then I'm out.

Not the Kern... Still too far North and West

My last guess was the Owens River in Eastern California, but I can't recall any parties like that. The American River, yeah, but it doesn't look like that at all, save for the bikinis. I considered Parker Tube Float but you already dismissed the Colorado River so I'm out of guesses.

None of the above......

It was a fun place to sit and people watch.... Just to rub "Salt" into the wound--we were "flashed" MANY times.... will maybe put up a pic..

How about this:
About 10,000 people floated down the Colorado River in Bullhead City, Ariz., on Aug. 14, during the fourth annual Bullhead City-Laughlin River Regatta, an event that's organized by the city.

Dead giveaway

Salt River Tubing and Recreation - Arizona's Floating Picnic! (http://saltrivertubing.com/)

Didn't even consider the Salt River. I was stuck on the Colorado and couldn't shake it. Then went local. Kern, Owen.....

11Fan

You got----I thought I was being a little more subtle than that though...

Over to you

Gimmie a minute. Gotta say, I enjoyed searching on that one. :E

I was there on fire assignement... For more pics see about 3/4 way down this page:

Adventures of LaFawnduh (http://www.chickenwingscomics.com/forum/index.php?topic=889.330)

Left it a little large, for clarity's sake.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm107/APC11Fan/Challange3.jpg

Charles J Arrigoni Bridge, Connecticut River.

Very similar ..........http://www.past-inc.org/historic-bridges/iron-arrigoni-med.jpg

No sir Cape. I'll toss some hints after a few tries. My screen name is a clue though, albeit subtle.

11Fan Nice first pic. For the second, I prefer to look outwards rather than down, unless I plan to land there. Yes, went up it. Pretty amazing old technology.

As to the pic with the bridge, a wild guess, is that Greenwich England with that millennium construction?

P.S., No not that, and not likely to be Paris either.

Pretty amazing old technology. It has that certain Apollo Capsule quality for roominess on that ride up, eh?

On the bridge, sorry, no. There is a firm reference, if you can make that connection.

P.P.S., USA, Tennessee, Memphis, Bridge over Mississippi River

OH if correct

Indeed it is V3M.

Clues: 11Fan, MD-11, Memphis, FedEx hub. Largest Operator of MD-11

Firm Reference: The Firm, starring Tom Cruise, Filmed in Memphis.

This is taken looking towards Mud Island and the Memphis Pyramid.

And Open House was declared by V3M

I used
modern bridge pyramid river
and there it was.

Still OH

As to that Apollo capsule feel... Roomier than that, but mixed in with cranky children, and people with a slight fear of heights and claustrophobic, along with people thrilled to be there.

OH it is then

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j35/helokat/L3.jpg

modern bridge pyramid river
and there it was.

First one too.

It was just me and Dad for the ride up. Four of us on the way down. Certainly not a place for the faint of heart. It's one of those things like going to the zoo. If you go, you gotta see the tiger. St. Louis is my Dad's Hometown.

Goodland Kansas Gordy. Went with Worlds Largest Easel

Yes indeedy....I took the picture while flying from fires in Florida to Idaho back in 07. There is a series of them:

The Big Easel - The Van Gogh Project (http://www.bigeasel.com/web/vangoghproject.html)

Over to you.........

I also went up the Arch in St. Louis earlier this year.....

The arch: It's a kick. The Midwest is famous for that "World's Largest" stuff. :ok:

This one may keep you up tonight trying to figure it out.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm107/APC11Fan/Challange4.jpg

Tis in Seattle, WA

Rainier Tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Tower)

Indeed Gordy. You won't be "sleepless" after all. I'm from California and accustomed to earthquakes. Just the looks of this one scared me. Over to you sir.

One of my present neighbors was superintendent of the Gateway Arch National Whatever for a couple of years. Interesting fellow.

Nope, not sleepless yet...Not sure as I would want to go in that building.

This should be relatively easy:

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j35/helokat/LaFonda/bud2.jpg

Dang it. Had it and then got distracted. Supposed to be cleaning the garage.

Just gotta figure out where.

http://road.bitnet.cx/edit/uploads/grassybud.jpg

Dang it. Had it and then got distracted. Just gotta figure out where.

Hate when that happens...especially if I have been there before.

I found that shot on some guy's blog when typing in Grain Silo Budweiser. That's the only picture that was like yours and the blog only has the one page that I can access. It's in there somewhere. :ugh:

OK, found something . Off the I-15, just outside Idaho Falls, of course that's buried on someones Flicker Account that's 750 pages.

OK, Confirmed. I-15, outside Idaho Falls.

And that will be it for me. Gotta get this garage done. Open House, pending Gordy's affirmation,

You got it.....Again another fun spot I flew past on the way to a fire.

Open House....

name the city

http://fromtheflightdeck.com/MEL/PPRune/99-06-07a.jpg

Is that Brighton?

Looks like Brighton & Hove (actually!)