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There is Something Fishy at Fort Fisher

Monday, September 25, 2017

One of four of North Carolina’s aquariums is there, and although we weren’t really in Fort Fisher to visit it, we were there for the 3 points awarded for riding on a ferry in the Motoring Challenge, visit it we did. Today we only took three photos towards the challenge, but received almost as many points as we did for yesterday’s eight.

: Natures Giants 02 – Atlantic Ocean :The Atlantic Ocean surf is just starting to get a little rough due to Hurricane Maria here at Fort Fisher on the North Carolina coast south of Wilmington. (9/24/17)

: Favorites Revisited 04 – On a Ferry: Aboard the North Carolina River Class Ferry Neuse traveling from Fort Fisher to Southport. (9/25/17)

: Bird Sanctuary: We were excited to find this “elusive” Bird Sanctuary sign in the town of Northwest, NC. But as we continued our week long road trip the elusive became a point of humor for us because it seemed like 75% of the towns we passed through in NC, VA & MD were Bird Sanctuaries. (9/25/17)

Sunday Fun Day

Sunday, September 24, 2017

A fun day on the road today, we drove through the largest city in Tuscany, before driving south of the border into Mexico on our way further south to Bolivia to shop ironically in a Thieves Market. Along the way we took in a lecture about early guerrilla warfare from The Swamp Fox, asked for directions to the East Indies from a fellow named Christopher and we nearly robbed by a highwayman until we showed him the contents of my wallet and he let us pass.

: Around the World 04 – Florence: Not Italy, South Carolina. (9/24/17)

: Roadside Oddities 02 – South of the Border: We probably could have found 5 items here that we would need to fill the Category of Roadside Oddities, but that would be like shooting fish in a barrel, so we took one of the giant billboard to count as just one. (9/24/17)

: Around the World 05 – Mexico: Ahhh, thank you, politically incorrect South of the Border. (9/24/17)

: Around the World 06 – Bolivia: If Bolivia is the next right, this must be Brazil. (9/24/17)

: Example of Irony – Thieves Market: Is this a market for thieves to sell their stolen goods or a market where you go shopping to find a thief to steal something for you? (9/24/17)

: Heroes and Villains 04 – Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox was a Revolutionary War hero and is considered the father of modern guerrilla warfare. (9/24/17)

: Heroes and Villains 05 – Christopher Columbus: Christopher Columbus was a hero to the Catholic Monarchs of Spain in spite of never making it to the East Indies as he first proposed and it turned out he was a villain to native Americans although they didn’t really know it at the time. (9/24/17)

: Heroes and Villains 03 – Robin Hood: A hero to the poor and a villain to the Sheriff of Nottingham. (9/24/17)

Minnie Watches the Sun Rise Over the Atlantic Ocean

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Polson Museum, Hoquiam, WA

Saturday, July 8, 2017

Walking Between Terminals

Sunday, July 2, 2017

Delta Planes, Sky Trains & Automobiles

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Seattle Souvenir

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Donna’s brother Scott gave me the above little trinket while we were visiting with them last weekend. It is something that the place he work at makes. It came as one big flat piece that needed to be bent in two places to form the business card card holder you see. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it as I don’t really give out business cards on a regular basis, I thought, ‘What the heck, I’ll give it to somebody who could use it.

From: Bogardus, Brian [INDAUTO/ASCONUM/USAK]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 7:29 AM
To: Fab Guys – Carlos; Keith; Rob; Ian; Tom
Subject: Seattle Souvenir

All,

I have a souvenir from Seattle, that trust me, will make you the envy of anyone who sees it, but because of the expense, I only have 1. So, I have written a number between 1 & 50 inclusive on a sticky note and placed it in a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnalls’ porch since noon yesterday. Reply to this email before noon today with your guess and the person closest to that number will win. In case of a tie, a coin flip will be used to pick the winner, the runner up will receive a somewhat less impressive item, but still be more than anyone else has.

Brian

After I had gathered all 5 co-workers guesses, the winner was obvious and I sent this out:

From: Bogardus, Brian [INDAUTO/ASCONUM/USAK]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 11:25 AM
To: Fab Guys – Carlos; Keith; Rob; Ian; Tom
Subject: We Have A Winner

All,

No one got the number exactly and there were no ties, so there is only one winner – Tom Schelfault!

Tom guessed 30 and the actual number was:

Be sure and stop by Tom’s cubical to see his fabulous prize. And if those of you who didn’t win the grand prize would like I have enough of the runner-up prizes to go around – sticks of spearmint gum bought at the Seattle airport.

As an interesting note (at least to me it was) here are the guesses in the order in which they were received.
Carlos – 2
Keith – 5
Ian – 17
Rob – 22
Tom – 30
Those numbers correspond to the first 5 numbers in the Bernolli Sequence exactly. Take a guess what the next number would be…

Brian

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