Thought this might be an interesting one...

I get the feeling of Windows and MicroSoft in Redmond, WA...
...curved paths leading to squares with colored umbrellas

Ummm....that's an allegory :rolleyes:

It's not Microsloth. But you're close.

Geographically.

Well, closer than I am, anyway.

It's not around the corner from you or anything, but it's not on my side of the continent, either.

Google campus in Redmond, WA?

I agree, it has something to do with Google.

I was using Google Earth to look over MicroSoft's buildings,
and then thought that Wolf would be devious enough to use Google.

So I went to Google, Kirkland, WA and found this building,
with colored umbrellas and curved paths.

But Wolf's place is not the Kirkland campus... Google somewhere else.

It's Google HQ in Mountain View

We have a winner.

I thought it would be amusing to use a googlemap image of Google. The color of the umbrellas was the giveaway, really ... otherwise I would have posted a shot that focused on the acres upon acres of solar panels on the rooves of the buildings. I thought the streetview was a lot of fun.

Looking at some of UT's assortment, though ... check this ... Google is apparently the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow ...

Could be easy

Turtle Lodge.

It looks like the base from some old Atari game...which one I haven't a clue. ;)

Old, palm trees, and water... I'm going to start with Florida, maybe the Dry Tortugas ?

Note the shadows cast by palm trees. This place is in the south.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Castil...e,+FL&t=h&z=18

The St Augustine Fort at Castillo de San Marcos.

Ehhh UT, you beat me by just seconds...

Google search of "Florida Forts"
I think this is it...pic of CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS

Does it intentionally resemble a turtle?

Where's this?

Yes. San Marcos was a world famous turtle, who circled the globe entertaining audiences with his feats of speed and precision.

Good old San. When he died, I cried. Put him in a box, they did.

Grand Canyon

quick guess: National Park - west - flags - boundary marker

"Four Corners" ? (CO, UT, AZ, NM)

or a new carnival ride: "Nine flags over Texas :rolleyes:

Nice rig !

Yes!

Hey, it was only a guess !

Glatt, was that pic from a trip you made on that bike ?

Here's one ...
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Dallas, Texas? Dealey Plaza

Just popped into my head all of a sudden

Groan.... Wolf, I hope that double entendre was un-intended :right:

Yes, exactly right.

Nah, I grabbed it from the web.

I also recognized the JFK picture instantly.

Completely unintended. I really meant popped into my head ... looked at the image and knew 1. I've never been to this place, and 2. I know this place. It's Dallas. School book depository.

Then I went off on musing a bit about memory and how it functions, and well ...

I'm just surprised I'm taking time off from reading A Dance with Dragons ...

I hope this is actually where I think this is...

Looks like Mount Cadillac Maine (Acadia National park)

Funny. I was going to say Schoodic Point.

Or Galapagos?

Fast! Yes, Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park. Those are the Porcupine Islands. I think. That was the part I wasn't entirely sure about. I knew it was Cadillac Mountain because I climbed up the motherfucker.

When I say "climbed" I actually mean "followed a groomed trail spiraling up to the top of the mountain." Which is significant because after reaching the top, appreciating the scenery, and being proud of myself for not screaming and falling off the sides of this relatively weathered and rounded chunk of pink granite, it was time to go and started back off down the path. my friend says, no, this way, pointing to a set of steps. 10 seconds later I was standing at my car, cursing her out for not suggesting this route at the outset.

Yes, I let her live. She knew how to get to the lobster pound.

lol

Yeah, I never understood why anyone would hike up Cadillac only to see a parking lot at the top. The journey is great and all, but not when the destination could have been reached so easily and was, by hundreds of other people.

Did you find my stuff? The back of our Pathfinder opened up while going up Cad Mt unbeknownst to us and a bag fell out, containing a Toonces the Driving Cat t-shirt, and something else I'd just bought.

You can't drive down the same way you drive up, so we just wrote them off.

Here's one. I've never been here, but it looks cool. Where's this?

I get as far as "looks like a lock" and stall.

I tried the Welland Canal around Niagara Falls, but that all looks too old.

St Lawrence and Houston ship canals are the only two that come to my memory... maybe Sacramento has locks on some of their waterways ?

Otherwise, nothin.

think bigger

A man, a plan, a canal...Panama?

nope

Do I get some credit for answering in palindrome?

Only if you invented that palindrome. I heard it years ago. Did it originate with you? It's a good one.

Yeah, I wrote it. :eyebrow:

Grand Canal, China

Suez Canal, Egypt

from Wikipedia:

Cool! ;)

FYI: It's not a canal.

Good job Grav!


Maeslantkering

So how did you find this storm surge barrier in Holland?

What's not a canal? :D

Where be this?

It's a birth canal.

Yay me!

I googled "flood barrier". Third pic.

That was after searching every single combination of swing, curve lock, gate, floodgate, river lock, etc, etc, etc.

Why, I oughta...

It's a river! Just because some wikipedia editor thinks all straight bodies of water are canals doesn't make it so,

Is that McMurdo Station Antarctica?

Just guessing, McMurdo Station?

Close...it's a station and in the antarctic.

Just throwing gas here:

:D

True, it IS wiki.

:) Ok, maybe it's a canal.