Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[passedpawn]

beergolf got it. Your turn

 

[beergolf]

Here is a good one. Bonus points for what the locals call this......

 

[passedpawn]

Ypsilanti brick dick

 

[beergolf]

hahahaha you got it close enough. Big Dick. I lived a few blocks away from this for a few years.

 

[passedpawn]

Stay classy Yps!

(fyi, I searched water towers that look like penis).

 

[beergolf]

Elvis Costello has a line in one of his songs about Ypsilanti... The song, “Sugarcane,” starts at about the 52-minute mark. The line in the song about Ypsi – “Here in Ypsilanti, they don’t wear any panties” –

I enjoyed my time in Ypsilanti...

 

[passedpawn]

I had an easy one in the queue (seems I only post easy ones). But maybe we'll skip the easy one and do something a little different.

I was here last year. This doesn't look like a skyline, but it's just about the tallest structure on the landmass it's sitting on. Boat doesn't look like much, but to me it's THE relic from an unbelievable story of adventure, hubris, and mania. I don't think many people know the story, but I sure do.

You sleuths will figure this out quickly I'm sure.

 

[JB_Brewing2]

That's the Teignmouth Electron, 19°41'10.40"N 79°52'37.83"W, Cayman Brac. Donald Crowhurst's boat. Quite the story!

 

[passedpawn]

That's the Teignmouth Electron, 19°41'10.40"N 79°52'37.83"W, Cayman Brac. Donald Crowhurst's boat. Quite the story!

Yessir. I recommend this book on the subject: Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

 

[Newsman]

Dang, PassedPawn... you sure do post easy ones!

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

Sounds like a great book; I just added it to my list. I just started reading Adrift, which has been very interesting so far. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0618257322/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[passedpawn]

Sounds like a great book; I just added it to my list. I just started reading Adrift, which has been very interesting so far. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0618257322/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

Read that one many years ago. Good story. Steve Calahan fares better in the end than Donald Crowhurst. I've read a ton of those types of survival at sea books. Check out Skeletons on the Zahara or The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex or (the best) Endurance for more of the same. Way to go, got me talking about books, I'm an easy mark

 

[JB_Brewing2]

I read "All the light we cannot see" while staying near this:

 

[passedpawn]

I read "All the light we cannot see" while staying near this:

Loved that book. I believe I read the entire second half of it in one sitting (when the lives of french girl and german boy started to converge, I couldn't put it down).

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

WAG St. Malo France?

 

[GrogNerd]

please take the book derail over to "funny things"

thank you

 

[JB_Brewing2]

WAG St. Malo France?

Sorry, right continent, wrong country.

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

Espana Square, Barcelona

 

[JB_Brewing2]

Espana Square, Barcelona

Bingo! You're up.

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

With any luck I'll travel here...

 

[Newsman]

Mexico City, Sierra de Guadalupe extinct volcano

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

Negative to Mex City.

 

[Newsman]

Vancouver Island

 

[alane1]

Looks like mt vasuvius, Naples Italy

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

Looks like mt vasuvius, Naples Italy

That's correct - you're up!

 

[alane1]

A capital city View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1483670533.359543.jpg

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Lima, Peru?

 

[alane1]

Lima, Peru?

Correct, you're up

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Maybe this one will take a few guesses...

 

[Newsman]

Maybe this one will take a few guesses...

Oh, sure.. NOW you choose to post a difficult one.