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by Joel Aufrecht
07:57 AM, 19 Aug 2010
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01:04 PM, 14 Aug 2010
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01:16 PM, 11 Jul 2010
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10:39 PM, 07 Jun 2010
The gPhone doesn't take great night photos. This is what the Syrian embassy looks like at night, after image processing:
by Joel Aufrecht
01:45 PM, 09 May 2010
All of the EU embassies in DC had an open house yesterday. The flier had room for seven embassy stamps, which I took as a challenge. The first nine embassies I went to were all a few miles from my apartment, further than Kona and I normally roam. It was nice to see the interiors of these places, but not terribly revealing since they all have intentionally public spaces where they host parties and whatnot. The lines started getting out of hand, especially for the shuttle buses, but the weather was decent. After finishing two distant legs, I came home around 3, got Kona, and went for the local embassies with time running out. Stamps only, this time, didn't want to leave Kona outside for too long. Alas, Estonia wasn't doing any stamping, and the person doing stamping at Bulgaria had already packed up. The lines at Ireland and Greece were prohibitive. Luxembourg and Cyprus were quick operations, in and stamp and out. Portugal had already stopped admitting visitors, but the nice man went in and got me my twelfth and final stamp. The final tally was Denmark, Italy, the UK, Finland (nicest embassy), Belgium (awful crowd control), Slovakia, Austria, Czech, Hungary, Cyprus, Luxembourg, and Portugal. This morning Kona and I went out and visited Bulgaria again to express our dismay about the stamping situation. (We did Estonia months ago.) Below are flags from several countries Kona has visited recently, including this morning's walk. Can you guess the countries?
by Joel Aufrecht
04:44 PM, 21 Mar 2010
Which country? This one's pretty tough with the nighttime lighting, so here's a hint: the picture was taken at 38° 54' 45.78" N latitude.
by Joel Aufrecht
03:02 PM, 01 Feb 2010
Whose flag is this?
by Joel Aufrecht
04:43 PM, 29 Dec 2009
by Joel Aufrecht
05:01 PM, 17 Dec 2009
Which embassy is this?
by Joel Aufrecht
03:41 PM, 08 Nov 2009
by Joel Aufrecht
09:39 PM, 03 Oct 2009
The flag belongs to this country.
by Joel Aufrecht
07:08 PM, 02 Oct 2009
We visited the embassy with this symbol (the flag is basically the same):
by Joel Aufrecht
08:51 AM, 19 Sep 2009
Kona hit a trifecta on our walk this morning. I've included a map to help you. Here's the flag of the first country she went on.
by Joel Aufrecht
10:50 PM, 12 Sep 2009
We went for our night walk. There were too many embassies to visit them all; maybe fifteen or more in a mile plus. At one point we passed Myanmar, Lao, and Ireland in 4 buildings. We conducted some business at this one. Which country is it? The answer is here.
by Joel Aufrecht
07:19 PM, 12 Sep 2009
Our neighbor in Half Moon Bay tended to put up a different flag every few days, anything from India to Arizona to the Subcarpathian Voivodship. Here in the heart of DC, there are so many embassies that I can't take a picture of every flag I pass. Instead, I'll be photographing only the flags of countries that Kona has been on, if you catch my meaning. For our purposes of pooch piddling, the front lawn of each embassy will be treated as national territory. So far in her life, Kona has been on the US, Singapore, and possibly Japan—we don't know if they walked her during her two stops as luggage. Today, she was on the country with this flag: Can you guess the country? It's not so easy as Half Moon Bay; the embassy flagpoles don't face the Pacific Ocean and its gentle breezes. The answer is here. 
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