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Ken, next time in Memphis Tn. ck out the Peabody Hotel.  They have a daily duck parade called "The walk of the Ducks" where they ride down from the roof to the hotel Lobby and bask in the pool until they ride back up the the PM.

Ken,

It can be wherever you want it to be.  

http://www.ebay.com/sch/?_nkw=duck%20crossing%20sign&clk_rvr_id=679325011451

Kelly,
I don't know how I missed that duck crossing in Memphis.
See what a little too much Jack Daniel's can do:
Legend of The Peabody Ducks
 The men had a little too much Jack Daniel's Tennessee sippin' whiskey, and thought it would be funny to place some of their live duck decoys (it was legal then for hunters to use live decoys) in the beautiful Peabody fountain.
http://www.peabodymemphis.com/peabody-ducks/

Carl,
Too many to choose from.

Curtis, finally getting around to posting a few Challenge photos.

Those are AWESOME, Phil!!! (I especially like your green t-shirt.)

I don't know if you got an e-mail from Moss this week, but they clarified that they're giving two bonus points for "roadside oddity" photos. I should think your giant violin photo will certainly qualify. (Make a mark in the "bonus 2" space at the bottom, righthand corner of the entry form.)  Well done!

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Ken, we found that first duck crossing sign on private property. I have no doubt Moss would accept the photo, but Lisa and I weren't really satisfied with it. We figured we'd take the snapshot, and replace it later if a better opportunity came along. Duck crossing signs are very scarce in Colorado. I tracked down THE sign guy at Colorado Department of Transportation at the beginning of the summer and he told me the STATE has never put one up. He didn't know of a town or county that had either. But then, this week I got a tip via e-mail from our new friend Carey Dietz whom we met last weekend at the Westminster Brewing car show. (Carey brought a remarkable '58 Packard Hawk!) Carey noticed a duck crossing sign in his travels this week, and told me where to find it. So here it is:

Ducks Crossing:


We also got our Horse Track sign today. We'd never been to the track before, but we had a great time watching the races! Today was the last day of the season here in Colorado so we'll have to wait until next summer to go again.

Horse Track:

Out for quick drive today and collected another sign........Dead End or as they're sometimes called here, a Cul-de-Sac.  New Brunswick is an officially bilingual province(French & English) so many of the highway signs are often symbols, as seen in the green replacement sign replacement for Dead End/Cul-de-Sac.
There's another Dead End in my neighbourhood, Dead End Auto Body.  Here's a pic of their mailbox.

Phil, it's great to see your car out and about!

Our niece has arrived back in Colorado now, ready to start her second year at C.U.-Boulder. Isn't she adorable! I hope she puts this snapshot on her Facebook page.


(Participants may collect Motoring Challenge points for the first five National Forests they visit. This is our fifth!)

Went for a short drive (an hour or two) this morning and followed the Saint John River before heading home before the humidity got too bad.  Collected two photos right near our home: the fire station about a half mile away and a neat real estate development sign about a quarter mile away.  Someone in the company has excellent tastes!

Anyone other than PJ and Curtis doing the Moss Challenge?

Anyone? Ken? Rob? Someone? There's still time, but you should start soon.  

Phil, that MGB sign is VERY VERY cool.

I picked up another easy car show point this morning at "Mile High Harley-Davidson".

It wouldn't ordinarily brag on it... but it's our 100th point to date! (It's my first solo point because Lisa is with her mom in Canada this week. She'll be back soon.)  About fifty cars showed up at today' show, including IMHO some particularly cleverly constructed rat rods. Clever... but still, such ugly welds! And their steering linkages looked dangerous. Anyhow, I especially enjoyed talking to a guy who's pretty close to done building a fiberglass '37 Ford (just needs upholstery and paint) and another guy who's putting an Olds Toronado front-wheel-drive front end and big block behind a stretched VW Beetle. Incidentally, the "car" next to mine in this snapshot is a BBC tricycle. Scary!

That's looks like the exact same MGB photo that my Eastman Credit Union has been using most of this year!

Carl, slightly different pose by the passenger but definitely the same photo shoot.  The graphics guy used a photo from some online stock photo company.

Curtis, I'd love to participate, but time is not my friend these days.  But, I am definitely enjoying your pictures Curtis!

I plan to get out and earn a few more points soon, rumor has it, that one will need 200+ points to be a contender this year.  I'll have a little over 100, so not in the running.  Last year I took 5th place but I did a lot more driving.

Here are our latest:   (though I'm too tired to say much about them right now)

a better Tunnel pic


an "O town" (Ogallala Nebraska)


a "Y town" (Yankton South Dakota)


an "H county" (Hall County Nebraska)


a "Y county" (Yankton County South Dakota)


state of Iowa


state of Minnesota


state of South Dakota


state of Wisconsin


Moss decided to give some bonus points for roadside oddities. These might qualify:

How are you going to make Watkins Glen if ya keep stoppin?!    

A beautiful day here so we went for a drive down river after dinner.   We stopped at Harvey's Big Potato, a local Farm Market with about 200 acres under cultivation. The Harvey family have been farming here for  about 100 years.
Known locally just as the Big Potato, their sign can be considered a Roadside Oddity.

Yep, that's odd alright. Very nice photo!

Carl asked: How are you going to make Watkins Glen if ya keep stoppin?!

I've been wondering the same thing. Hopefully the answer is "just in time".

Managed to cover a bunch of miles today. Five more points.

Rock County Wisconsin


state of Illinois


state of Indiana


state of Ohio


state of Michigan


Must. Sleep. Now.

Gotta say this is way more fun to watch than me just typing, "I drove 960 miles today" when driving out to the V8 Meet.

Say Curtis, while you were in Michigan did you got to Hell?

No... but I did have a great visit with Dave Craddock, which included a tour of the Preform Resources composite fabrication shop. Preform Resources now has <a href="http://preformresources.com/">Ford Mustang body kits</a> and <a href="http://preformresources.com/">composite parts for Porsches.</a> And Dave took me out to dinner! And then I drove a couple hours into Canada before stopping for the night.

Yesterday I drove around for little looking for a cool Ontario sign... missing several good opportunities because I was looking for something more exciting, and finally having to settle for this lame photo I took as "nsurance".

Province of Ontario, Canada


On the up-side, I was very excited to get this:

O County - Oxford County, Ontario


Had to really rush across New York, making just one brief stop:

U-town - Urbana, New York


Got to Watkins Glen just a couple minutes too late to pick up my Crew Pass, so I snuck in by showing a previous years Media Pass to someone who didn't know any better. Enjoyed a really nice dinner held in honor of our dearly departed friend John.  After that, I didn't want to leave to go find "the gang" at the Seneca Lodge because I figured I might not be able to get back into the track. Now my credentials are legit, and I can come and go as I please.

That Curtis,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,he is on a mission !!!
Dave

"Say Curtis, while you were in Michigan did you got to Hell?"  Larry, if you didn't want to go to Hell, come on over to Maine and visit Purgatory, ME near Augusta.  :-))

The Watkins Glen vintage festival includes multiple car shows, and I suppose I could have moved my car around between them and collected a bunch of "Car Show" Motoring Challenge points. I chose to drop in briefly at this one:


"MG Car Corral at the Vintage Grand Prix of Watkins Glen" - September 6, 2014
(with Caroline & Ray Waugh who own the red MGB GT V6 at left - Bill Guzman's old "test mule" - and with long-term GT V8 owner/enthusiast Tom Rosser.)

I had hoped to find a Charity Car Wash in the town of Watkins Glen somewhere... but no luck there.

Back to racing!

Looks like a fun group, wish I could have been there