{"id":16727,"date":"2014-03-12T14:58:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T21:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=16727"},"modified":"2014-03-12T14:58:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T21:58:38","slug":"so-where-was-i-hints-1-and-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/so-where-was-i-hints-1-and-2\/","title":{"rendered":"So where was I? Hints 1 and 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not there any more. If all&#8217;s gone well, I&#8217;m on my way home as you read this. So it&#8217;s time to reveal the Secret Location.<\/p>\n<p>Or rather, it&#8217;s time to start by giving some better hints than I&#8217;ve offered so far. A prize will be offered to the first person who names both the country <i>and<\/i> the city where I stayed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint 1<\/strong> is a photo you&#8217;ve already seen. It was the first photo I posted on my travels, in fact. I didn&#8217;t realize it at the time, but to anybody who knows this part of the world, that mosaic man isn&#8217;t just a design. He&#8217;s a specific, historic individual, well known in these parts. He is often depicted only as a dark, symbolic shape. <\/p>\n<p>Here it is again:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2014\/03\/12\/so-where-was-i-hints-1-and-2\/bb_viewfrommywindow_small_030714-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16728\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BB_ViewFromMyWindow_SMALL_0307141.jpg\" alt=\"B&amp;B_ViewFromMyWindow_SMALL_030714\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16728\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint 2<\/strong> is also in a photo I posted before. But that time, I cheated and altered one big detail. Here&#8217;s the photo unaltered:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2014\/03\/12\/so-where-was-i-hints-1-and-2\/lagoon_small-unaltered_031014\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16729\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Lagoon_SMALL-UNALTERED_031014.jpg\" alt=\"Lagoon_SMALL-UNALTERED_031014\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16729\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A prize (not sure what, but we&#8217;ll work out something whether it be a tacky souvenir, an autographed book, or a small personal favor) goes to the first person who can name <i>both the city and the country<\/i> that I spent the last week in. If nobody gets it from this post and earlier ones, I&#8217;ll give some more hints.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t just aim for the name of the country; that&#8217;ll only help the next person. Correct country <i>and<\/i> city wins the prize. Extra hint: These two photos would give a savvy person the country. City might have to be inferred from these and everything else I&#8217;ve posted (and will post later on if somebody doesn&#8217;t come up with the right answer immediately).<\/p>\n<p>Gopherit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not there any more. If all&#8217;s gone well, I&#8217;m on my way home as you read this. So it&#8217;s time to reveal the Secret Location. Or rather, it&#8217;s time to start by giving some better hints than I&#8217;ve offered so far. A prize will be offered to the first person who names both the country and the city where I stayed. Hint 1 is a photo you&#8217;ve already seen. It was the first photo I posted on my travels, in fact. I didn&#8217;t realize it at the time, but to anybody who knows this part of the world, that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/so-where-was-i-hints-1-and-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So where was I? Hints 1 and 2<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}