2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words

1/8/24 Final

01/08/24 Final

1/8/2024 – Final

The hotel parking lot was the ‘final’ part of my ride.

1/8/24 scavhunt FINAL

Gee I thought this was such an original idea (Lynn Sa’s, not even mine!) but it seems a lot of others thought of it too.  However, mine has a twist…. The FREEDMAN’s Cemetery in Alexandria is the final resting place for not just anyone but slaves.  And I have a song to go with it, cuz it’s been playing in my head ever since I stopped at the slave cemetery for this pic.  The nsong is worth listening to or at least reading. At least the first few lines…..
So, pic first, then song link.

The song is Fuel by Ani DiFranco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KksQiHpwZeY

Here are the lyrics — so you can see why I kept hearing the song, even if you don’t feel like playing music right now.

They were digging a new foundation in manhattan
And they discovered a slave cemetary there
May their souls rest easy
Now that lynching is frowned upon
And we’ve moved on to the electric chair
And i wonder who’s gonna be president, tweedle dum or tweedle dummer?
And who’s gonna have the big blockbuster box office this summer?
How about we put up a wall between houses and the highway
And you can go your way, and i can go my way
Except all the radios agree with all the tvs
And the magazines agree with all the radios
And i keep hearing that same damn song everywhere i go
Maybe i should put a bucket over my head
And a marshmallow in each ear
And stumble around for another dumb-numb week
For another hum drum hit song to appear
People used to make records
As in a record of an event
The event of people playing music in a room
Now everything is cross-marketing
Its about sunglasses and shoes
Or guns and drugs
You choose
We got it rehashed
We got it half-assed
We’re digging up all the graves
And we’re spitting on the past
And you can choose between the colors
Of the lipstick on the whores
Cause we know the difference between
The font of 20% more
And the font of teriyaki
You tell me
How does it make you feel?
You tell me what’s real?
And they say that alcoholics are always alcoholics
Even when they’re as dry as my lips for years
Even when they’re stranded on a small desert island
With no place within 2, 000 miles to buy beer
And i wonder
Is he different?
Is he different?
Has he changed? what’s he about?…
Or is he just a liar with nothing to lie about?
Am I headed for the same brick wall
Is there anything i can do about
Anything at all?
Except go back to that corner in Manhattan
And dig deeper, dig deeper this time
Down beneath the impossible pain of our history
Beneath unknown bones
Beneath the bedrock of the mystery
Beneath the sewage systems and the path train
Beneath the cobblestones and the water mains
Beneath the traffic of friendships and street deals
Beneath the screeching of kamikaze cab wheels
Beneath everything i can think of to think about
Beneath it all, beneath all get out
Beneath the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel
There’s a fire just waiting for fuel
There’s a fire just waiting for fuel
There’s a fire just waiting for fuel
There’s a fire just waiting for fuel
There’s a fire just waiting for fuel
There’s a fire just waiting…

Belated posts from when the Forum was offline until I just now figured out how to access it anew:

1/8/24 – Stoney

1/7/24 – Stone

01/08/2024 – FINAL
FINAL resting place, similar to many other scav hunters :))</p>

1/8 final

The song in my head was “the final countdown” so I photographed a walk sign counting down to 0, but then I passed by this window announcing a group’s final days at this location, “a sweet ending to new beginning.”