candia?

NO! NO! ...though I did find a couple of sticky wads of juju beads in my sofa yesterday. Yum

south america?

no, not sud am

central?

nope, not in the middle part, either.

ireland?

getting hotter, but not Ireland.

When you get closer, I thought "Pink Floyd" might be a reasonable clue of where I am.

Hadrian's Wall?

you old rock head! Yes, I'm on Hadrian's Wall

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...driansWall.jpg

Hadrian's Wall is a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Begun in 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was the middle of three such fortifications built across Great Britain, the first being from the River Clyde to the River Forth under Gnaeus Julius Agricola and the last the Antonine Wall. All were built to prevent raids on Roman Britain by the Pictish tribes (ancient inhabitants of Scotland) to the north, to improve economic stability and provide peaceful conditions in Britain, and to mark physically the frontier of the Empire. Hadrian's Wall is the best known of the three because its physical presence remains most evident today.

A significant portion of the wall still exists, particularly the mid-section, and for much of its length the wall can be followed on foot by Hadrian's Wall Path or by cycle on National Cycle Route 72. It is the most popular tourist attraction in Northern England, where it is often known simply as the Roman Wall. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. English Heritage, a government organization in charge of managing the historic environment of England, describes it as "the most important monument built by the Romans in Britain".

The Romans used natural features in the landscape to help the functionality of the wall and make it somewhat easier to build:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...rianswall3.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...v2xtrawide.jpg

Cool, did a paper on the "Wall" years ago. I actually have some Roman coins that were found buried near it.

OK, find me.

eh?

NH EH

Europe?

I'm in Europe.

does the country you are in border on the atlantic?

No.

does it border on the sea of meds?

No.

country on the Baltic Sea?

Yes.

Are you in Denmark sitting on a rock with that little mermaid in Copenhagen harbour?

scandanavian country?

in one of the Baltic States...Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania?

No and No.

germany?

Po land?

I am in Poland but I almost said Germany.

are you in a lighthouse? ...there seems to be a lot of them along Poland's Baltic coast

Nope not a light house.

are you along the coast?

No.

my edit: now that it's sinking in that you said "I almost said Germany" I think you might be in Danzig aka Gdańsk...a city which had long been a sore point of territorial dispute between Germany & Poland, especially in pre-WWII nationalist Germany since the Treaty of Versailles gave it to Poland.



Since Sept 1 to 3 are the dates of the event, I'm guessing you are in Poland somewhere related to the German invasion that started WWII...is that right?

I'm not at Danzig. I am at a place connected to the war, but no so much the invasion.

Are you near Pyry in the Kabaty Woods? ...where the secrets of the Enigma code were disclosed to the Allies?

During a period of over six and a half years, from late December 1932 to the outbreak of World War II, three Polish mathematician-cryptologists (Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki) at the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau in Warsaw had developed a number of techniques and devices – including the "grill" method, Różycki's "clock", Rejewski's "cyclometer" and "card catalog", Zygalski's "perforated sheets", and Rejewski's "cryptologic bomb" (Polish term: bomba, precursor to the later British "Bombe", named after its Polish predecessor) – to facilitate decryption of messages produced on the German "Enigma" cipher machine. A few weeks before the outbreak of World War II, on July 25, 1939, near Pyry in the Kabaty Woods just south of Warsaw, Poland disclosed her achievements to France and the United Kingdom, which had, up to that time, failed in all their own efforts to crack the German military Enigma cipher.

Had Poland not shared her Enigma-decryption results at Pyry, the United Kingdom would have been delayed at the least a year or two in its reading of the Enigma cyphers or might even have been unable to read them at all. In the event, intelligence gained from this source, codenamed ULTRA, was extremely valuable in the Allied prosecution of the war, though the exact influence of ULTRA on its course remains a subject of debate. Some have argued that ULTRA decided the very outcome of the war, though a view has also found broad acceptance that ULTRA hastened Germany's defeat by between 6 months and 4 years.

No. I think, by looking, that's much closer to Warsaw then where I am. I'm not connected to the Enigma code as far as I know.

sobribor?

I am at Sobibor. One of the only camps to have successful escapes, two actually.

Nice work Phil, you're up.

that was too easy for a wild-ass guess...

i'll think of somewhere soon...

swag = smart wild ass guess

No kidding. My first thought was "how could he know that?" I went back and read the Q&A and yeah SWAG.

OK Mr. Smarty Pants are you at the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota?

it's "scientific wild-assed guess..." :)

ok,, where am i, and it's not the crazy horse memorial?

NH?

nh...

on the sofa?

on the sofa...

how about the miss...east of her?

east of the mrs...

North of 40?

north of 40...

in a state that borders the atlantic?

in a state that borders the atlantic...

how about Maine?

i would be in maine...

i'm glad, unc...since I'd like to be there now, too.

are you on the eastern/coastal side of I-95?

i am...

are you on one of those cute little offshore islands?

i am not...

are you south of Camden, ME? ...that's where my neighbor moved

your neighbor moved to a place north of me...

In a location on the coast or just east of 95?

are at the L.L.Bean store in Freeport?

tully - coastal

nick - no

are you in the Wedding Cake House in Kennebunkport?

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...SmwtQqs_ph.jpg

nope... (but i've seen it before - totally out of character for that area...)

are you in Boothbay Harbor?

any clues? ...town, building, natural feature, park?

i've spent vacations in boothbay harbor (southport island, to be exact), but no, i am not that far north...

lemme think...clue, clue, clue...

Part of Stephen King's The Stand, published in 1978, is set in ...

ahhh, I guess you must be in Ogunquit! I was gonna guess Ogunquit before but I didn't. Now is there some reason you're there, or just for the hell of it?

Are you in Maine?

I got nothing, sounds like Nick got it.

i'm in ogunquit, and you win...

we've stayed there a few times in a little b & b near the marginal way while visiting friends in york beach. it's a gay little community with one of the most unique "hot sauce" stores i've ever seen...

ok...i need to figure out my next destination. ahll be bahk

OK where in the world am I?

up on the burial hill in barcelona, spain...

Yugud-Va National Park, Komi, Russia?

Nope, but I'll have to keep those places in mind for another time. I'm not sure I found the burial hill unc mentioned so more hunting required for that...maybe next full moon I'll find it. Tul, I never heard of that park but now I know it's the largest national park in Russia and in Europe, and among many other notable animals to be found there are flying squirrels.

Never trust a flying squirrel.

NH?

wh?

yes & yes

usofa?

yes, right on it

east of the mrs?

no. go west young man, go west

north of 40?

nope, south of said 40.

does the state you are in border on the pacific ocean?

No, not last time I checked

...unless ocean levels are rising faster than predicted

Nevada?

nope

Are west of 110?

does the stat you are in border on the gulf of texaco?

Tul, I'm east of 110 long.

unc, yes the state I'm in borders the gulf club

are you in louisiana?

not Louisiana

are you north of austin?

yes I am.

in a city?

no, this place is out in the open

clue:

the tower at the university of texas?

"Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966), as a student at the University of Texas at Austin, killed 14 people and wounded 32 others during a shooting rampage on and around the university's campus. Three were killed inside the University's tower and ten killed from the 28th floor observation deck of the University's 307 foot administrative building on August 1, 1966; one died a week later from her wounds. The tower massacre happened shortly after Whitman murdered his wife and mother at their homes. He was shot and killed by Austin Police Officer Houston McCoy,[1] assisted by Austin Police Officer Ramiro Martinez."

The wind turbine farms near McCamey, Texas?

unc,
I recall when that happened, I was getting ready to be a senior in high school. But I would not want to be where that crazy fuck was...sorry, not there.

Tul,
I believe that location is actually a bit too far south of where I am, but since I am not far from there and I am at a wind farm, I want to give you this win.


I'm at the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center, currently the largest wind farm in the world.

In fact, I was surprised that U.S. currently has the highest installed capacity of wind power in the world.

The United States was the second largest installed capacity of wind power, after Germany until 2008, when it surpassed Germany with the American Wind Energy Association stating that the United States had 21,000 MW of wind energy capacity at the end of 2008. A total of 8,538 MW were added in 2008. At the end of March 2008 the United States wind power capacity was 18,302 MW, which is enough to serve 4.9 million average households. Currently, the largest wind farm in the US – and the largest in the world – is Florida Power & Light's Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center, located in Taylor County, Texas. The Horse Hollow project operates 421 wind turbines and has a capacity of 735 megawatts. Prior to Horse Hollow's completion, the largest US wind farm was the Stateline Wind Project on the Oregon-Washington line, with a peak capacity of 300 megawatts.

cheating a bit since this pic is nor really Horse Hollow...but you get the idea:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...I/windfarm.jpg