I’ve been getting emails and Facebook messages asking about the Secret Side Trip I’m currently on. I thought I’d share some photographic hints.
To make things a little easier, here’s another hint: I took the colour photos. The black-and–white ones are simple Google Images finds.
Another hint: at the time of this writing — 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, which is not necessarily the time zone I’m in — the temperature is 13 degrees C.
I took both colour photos in this post yesterday.
Also noteworthy: there are a lot of bicycles and cafes in the area.
I’m having fun here, and I’ll eventually be able to tell all. In the meantime, have fun guessing!
17 replies on “Funemployment Diary, Entry #18: Hints of My Activities and Whereabouts”
This would be so much easier if you’d stop scrubbing the Exif metadata from your photos, Joey. *eye-roll*
I guess I’m really patient because I’m just waiting to hear your story when you can reveal it 🙂
John – there’s only one place in North America that specific train car runs. 🙂
That train looks like the commuter train in Chicago.
I’d recognize those Caltrain seats anywhere. And five bucks says that’s University Avenue.
You’re in Berkeley?
Caltrain doesn’t go to Berkeley.
All comments on entry #17 have disappeared. How secret is this really?
Re. the commuter train, are you writing “Source Code”? In the language of K+R?
So, I’m bored at work, and I managed to find the hotel from the previous post.
I know the train in the picture, and did a Google image search for hotel lobbies at some of the places it stops. Can I say which hotel it is?
Oh, it wasn’t the search for hotel lobbies that found it. It was a search for hotels with red pillars. Google is really good at finding the random stuff I tell it to look for!
The hotel lobby in the previous post on the topic makes me think of Mexico, so my guess is somewhere in the southern states.
I think the look they’re going for is “early/mid 20th century European”.
Found the ol’ bird! Nice.
Eva – those chandeliers, floor tiles, plain white (stucco?) walls, and imposing dark fireplace all combined were what made me think Mexican-inspired. So I’m not that far off.
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