Day 77
There’s something strange in this photo
June 11th, 2010
I'm walking across America.
That's the idea, at least. I'm walking westward from New York City for nine months or so. If everything goes according to plan, I'll be in Oregon when the clock runs out. If nothing goes according to plan, maybe I'll end up in Peru or Mongolia or Pennsylvania. You can read all about the details of my trip if you're so inclined.
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Here's my progress so far:
Is that a light-up palm tree I see?
That’s what’s getting my vote – the palm tree.
What’s wrong with the picture? Anyhow, congrats on the distance, you’re almost to Fargo! ;)
Is it the ADA ramp up to the house that has no door?? heehee
Isn’t that just the celler doors?
celler door it is
I don’t think that’s a ramp; I think that’s the door to the basement.
I give up. What’s the strange thing in the photo? The strangest thing I can find is a trailer hauling what looks like a smaller trailer.
Right, I was was totally kidding about the ADA ramp. Note the “heehee.” ;-) And that’s a smiley face.
No that is a cellar door. The bike sign without a rider?
Nothing strange…just the Matt Green 3000 next generation push cart … to me !
A truck…hawling a trailor…hauling an ATV… hawling a suitcase. Brilliant!
Looking close the trailer is not hooked to the truck.
What is it?! I’m dying to know!
I’m with Rebekah. It’s the light-up pa;m tree near the front passenger side corner of the trailer.
Is it that the trailer used to be a wagon and is now a trailer??? =)
At first I thought the oddity would be the wagon wheel, then I looked closer and saw the palm tree. Maybe it’s the two together that makes the whole thing strange!?
Is that a guy staring out of the window in his underwear?
Oh my god, I literally LOLed at your comment Chaser!!!!!!!!! Yeah, I see him too. A ghost from the 19th century. Oh lord, I”m laughing all over again…tears in my eyes…really! Thanks!
I feel like I’m playing one of those Hidden Object games. “Find: the number 9, a riderless bicycle, a palm tree, something strange, and a birdcage.”
Is it the brand new ATV in a trailer full of junk???? I’m dying to know!!!!!
Yeah, I’m going with the fake, light-up palm tree.
I’m intrigued, but I give up. Great house too!
I think the point is that there are several things that are strange 8)
From what I can tell, there is more than some “thing” strange in this photo!
My guess is the palm tree is the strange thing. But I’m really bummed that I can’t find the guy in his underwear – I have been single for too long I guess!!! LOL
You can’t find him because he keeps away from Runaround Sue! ;)
Good point Ron … but then again – if I ran around I just might spot guys in their bvd’s a little more easily. LOL
Ok I think its the palm tree and wagon wheel too. And I can’t find the guy in his underwear! Where is he? Its like finding Waldo……LOL
Settle down, Sue, Chaser should have said “hee-hee.” I’m with the group that says there are several “strange” things in the picture. I’m surprised no one mentioned the carriage wheel in the front of the trailer. I figure this ios the guy’s last load, coming or going. Now he needs to figure out how to get the loaded trailer on to the truck’s trailer hitch.
I’ll try to settle down, best I can, even though I am still checking windows – LOL.
As for hooking up the trailer to the hitch, it’s simple – usually there are cranks on the trailer hitch bar to raise and lower it, and to balance it when it’s not hooked to a truck. Maybe that’s just common redneck knowledge.
Oh, and Linda called it a wagon wheel, right before she noticed the palm tree.
Saun caught the wheel too.
I think it is …that the truck’s trailer is full of old worn items made of iron or steel, then you see three items that are not of the same material, a suitcase, rear lights of some vehicle and cardboard-perhaps items that belong to the driver that he or she hauls along with the metal it collects to sell for cash.
Hmmm… I guess my vote is for the palm tree, too.
The items in the trailer do not appear to be secured. With no back to the trailer, if it is driven off the items would likely slide out the back.
Something about the bicycle sign? I don’t see a marked bike lane…
Matt, toss us a bone here. Did you just think the collection was odd? Or are we supposed to be looking for something?
um….I think it’s the fact that there is junk in the trailer like the ladder that is obviously UNDERNEATH the ATV. Who the heck would pile an ATV ON TOP OF the rest of the stuff?
Is that a small coffin on the ATV seat?
I think it is a tombstone. Who moves a tombstone?
What looks odd to me is the funny angle of the house and trees. The right hand side of the house seems to lean right and the other side to the left. Is it just some weird perspective or what?
is it the wheels on trail are in the middle together?
The luau obviously was a bust. The Hawaiian lights still visible under the eaves are a mockery of what could have been. She got the lights. He got the palm tree.
I can see ‘faces’ in the windows, sort of like when you see them in the clouds.
Click on the photo to go to flickr, then click on ‘All Sizes’ and ‘Original’ to see what I mean.
I too see at least two faces… the first window on the second floor (front) … the second in the window below him …
In the upper window is a bearded man wearing a rain coat and holding a bag over his left wrist (his hand is in the dead center of the window under the wood). He, however, is looking away from the camera (his head in the left corner of the window).
The window below him holds a woman with a pointy chin, she almost looks as it she is looking at the camera, but I see no body on her.
There is a possibility of two other faces in that same window, depending on how you look at it (two men, one bearded, one not – they make up the woman), and the front door’s window perhaps holds the face of a clown with a bow tie, but with the glare it is hard to be certain on any of those.
However, there is what looks like a one dimensional statue of a cherub in the bottom half of the top left window.
Truly strange!
Come on Matt!!! I keep checking back to see what the “strange” thing was… Let us know ;)
What is that blue and red rod like thing with the white cylinders on it, sticking up in the very front left corner of the trailer?
Cant see a palm tree anywhere here, but i’m old and nearly blind. My best guess is the weird yellow bamboo ladder that looks like its going up to a tree fort or something. it just looks like it extends over a long distance and wouldn’t be stable.
are we allowed to send you a Rorschach Test while your out on the road?
It must be one of three things:
1) There are no blocks behind the wheels of the trailer to keep it from rolling down the road
2) For this configuration to work, the trailer needs a few bungee cords and more duct tape
or
c) The bicycle crossing sign has been hacked off and wired in place PLUS it is missing bullet holes
Is that a cat napping under the break-less trailer? Ewww…
Big rock on the ATV