This is a new series I’m going to try out over the next few weeks. I’m going to post a photo which was taken somewhere within the Minneapolis/St. Paul 7 county area(PDF). You have until Friday to guess where it was taken. No prizes will be offered, other than the pride of knowing your city better than you ever should.
This is the first photo, it’s a difficult one, Hints will be added to the post this evening, Thursday morning and afternoon. The answer will be added after 5:00 on Friday. Click through to few additional sizes on Flickr. Post your answers in the comments, multiple guesses are permitted.
Hint #1: Small sovereign territory
Hint #2: Norse (Scandinavian) explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates
Hint #3 Just north of the number of barleycorns in an English foot. And west of that number minus 1.
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Viking Road?
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.009264,-93.09617&spn=0,359.961376&z=15&layer=c&cbll=45.010537,-93.095485&panoid=PdTTrSjc-c5J_eddqSSJEg&cbp=12,71.85931699751228,,0,16.553784108370913
Er, Drive. Viking Drive.
We have a winner. Thanks Phil. Join me next week for another photo, I’ll try to make it a bit easier.
Wow those clues are tough, and I mean “National Treasure” tough! I call myself a Minnesotan, so technically I should have known this! I live a few miles east of that area.