6/15/05 | 11:59 am | Solution: DaBomb
I didn’t get a chance to write up a full solution, so I’ll just list some of the responses below. Most people seemed to get the U2 reference. I’ve driven to Joshua Tree Park fairly recently (2 years ago) and would highly recommend it to anyone interested. Also, nice to see people playing at work… =)
Phil M:
This area has a lot of interesting designs for neighborhoods. Actually, while serching for this clue, I found the solutions to another clue (The bug one). Not too difficult, Where the Streets Have no Name is a song from the U2 album Joshua Tree. figured I’d look around Joshua Tree National Park.
Andy K:
Not too bad at all as long as you know a little U2.
I think you should definately at least keep up the scavengeroogle going 2 or 3 times a week if at all possible. It’s a great time.
Larry B:
Got it. Clue was actually very easy. Just think album title…
Katie N:
This one took me about 10 minutes. I finally decided to see if there was a city called joshua tree, and apparently there is!
Moose:
Good clue, pretty easy though. I just googled the clue verbatim and found a bunch of stuff about Joshua Tree. I then noticed the national park in California, so I looked around there. I would have found it faster, but I kept looking southwest of Joshua Tree Nat. Park instead of north. Took about 10 minutes of actual hunting time…I kept getting calls here at work so I guess my solution time would be 20 minutes with all my interruptions.
Scotty B:
I was kicking myself for not thinking of Joshua Tree Nat’l Park, but the fact that I live near No Name Key, FL had me thinking that there were probably other places like that in our great country as well.
Thankfully, my buddy just told me about a trip he took to Joshua Tree, or else I would probably still be trying to input a town called No Name, Arizona.
Jim:
Where the Streets have no Name is from U2’s Joshua Tree album. Found the address for Joshua tree, then a couple minutes of searching around before I found it.
Back to work, I guess.
Jared R:
I think I sent this in but not sure. Busy day and I am confusing myself. Gotta love the scavengeroogle distraction from real work.
Judy B:
Just a couple of minutes. I knew the music reference and am very familiar with the actual location. I put the town name in and saw DaBomb after a couple of additional clicks.
Jim M:
Got the Joshua Tree reference, but thought it might be Vegas where the U2’s video to the song was filmed … tooled around the outskirts there then cruised over to 29Palms, went one a brief sojourn south to Palm Springs, before hitting the target in Yucca Valley. About 10-12 minutes scan time.
Thanks everyone for playing… see you Friday at 9!
June 15th, 2005 at 1:13 pm
Total brain fart on this one. I didn’t connect the Joshua Tree reference despite having rock-climbed in the park and owning the CD.
I didn’t have much time, but after the geo clue drop, I searched around Sacramento because the north/south streets are numbers and the east/west streets are letters. Get it, no names. Is it Friday, yet.
I wish I could help take the load off you. If I can help keep the Roogle running somehow, let me know. As long as I don’t see the solutions ahead of time
June 15th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
Shawn - That’s funny they’ve got letters/numbers streets in Sacramento because they have an area around here named Palmdale that has the streets running one way with letters and the other way with numbers. I forget how close that actually is to Joshua Tree, but I always thought maybe U2 were driving through that area.
Just 2 months ago I went to that area where the streets have no name to visit the California Poppy Fields. On that note… I actually used Googlemaps to locate interesting areas where the poppies might show. Granted the satellite map was a year old, but you could actually SEE the fields of orange in the photos. It turned out there was one area I found that was exactly like it was on the satellite map… neat!
Thanks for your offer to help, and thanks for everyone else who said so too. I’m not sure yet what I’ll do, but it may need to be something like i said where the sessions aren’t a set timelength long.. because I usually have to stay home to “tend” to them, and i may not be able to do that after summer. we shall see!
June 16th, 2005 at 10:33 am
Well in hindsight I prolly should have put in “Near where the roads are nameless” to prevent an easy cut n’ paste Google. I was more hung up with the fact that my clue was in Yucca Valley and not actually in Joshua Tree. Since it was a “Bomb” I was thinking to get really obscure and use the “War” album somehow, but that might have proved to be slightly on the difficult side to get to the Joshua Tree album. Oh well …. food for thought on future submittals I guess.
Yea the town of Joshua Tree exists alright…… grew up there.
June 16th, 2005 at 10:44 am
Mark L - I think it was still a decent clue. It is difficult to tell what will be easy and what will be too hard… “Near where the roads are nameless” might have been too difficult, since as a couple people said there are many areas that have roads with no names or roads with just letters and numbers. And plus, like you said it was in yucca valley so it wasn’t a direct giveaway…
p.s. there is a band called Gram Rabbit that are from Joshua Tree who i sort of like… they’ve been on the radio a few times.
June 16th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
Had to check out Gram Rabbit because a guy named Gram Parsons (Flying Burrito Brothers) committed suicide in Joshua Tree……. sure enough that’s where they got their name, and played his songs in the very hotel where he checked out for good……. very interesting.