{"id":437,"date":"2009-02-11T09:56:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T14:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2009-02-11T09:56:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T14:56:26","slug":"license-plate-scavenger-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/license-plate-scavenger-hunt.html","title":{"rendered":"License Plate Scavenger Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So back last summer when we made our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/vacation-road-trip-report.html\">trip to the Groesbeck reunion in North Carolina<\/a>, one of the things I came up with was a license plate scavenger hunt to occupy some time in the car.  Of course I am not the first person to come up with this idea, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/dans-first-law-of-internet.html\">Dan&#8217;s First Law of the Internet<\/a> did not hold in providing me with a sheet that had examples of what all the license plates looked like.<\/p>\n<p>There were plenty of sites that had individual license plates but nothing that would serve as sort of a &#8220;gameboard&#8221;.  So I created one, which you can see below.  In some cases, I had to pick which license plates to show as some states had multiples.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"align:center;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/licenseplates.jpg\" alt=\"License Plate Scavenger Hunt\" title=\"License Plate Scavenger Hunt\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-438\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It worked pretty well.  It was mostly my oldest son who was into it and he is still very in to license plates and spotting different ones.  We&#8217;re still working on teaching him that Mommy doesn&#8217;t care about license plates so he should probably just tell Dad about ones he finds :-).  It&#8217;s kind of like coins in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>I had intended about publishing my work for other intrepid travelers but my Word doc was like 3 MB and I didn&#8217;t want to just host that on my site in case somehow lots of people started downloading it and crashing my server.  But I started looking at it again recently because tonight is our Cub Scout den meeting where we will be talking about collecting things and we&#8217;re supposed to bring in things that we collect.  So we will be bringing in this license plates printout as well as our big jar of found coins.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to upload it to Google Docs but they only accept docs of up to 500K.  So I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc2pdf.net\/\">converted it to a PDF for free<\/a> and uploaded it.  But apparently you can&#8217;t publish PDFs via Google Docs, so if I wanted to share it there I had to individually invite people.  So I found a place called PDFHost.net.  I uploaded it there, but when you go there, although it says licenseplates.pdf &#8211; it sends you a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfhost.net\/index.php?Action=Download&#038;File=f1851b2d154429c4abf6d06b02deaa3b\">an invoice written in German?!?<\/a>.  Finally I uploaded it to a place called Keepandshare.com.  So if you want a copy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keepandshare.com\/doc\/view.php?id=1066718&#038;da=y\">here it is!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So back last summer when we made our trip to the Groesbeck reunion in North Carolina, one of the things I came up with was a license plate scavenger hunt to occupy some time in the car. Of course I am not the first person to come up with this idea, but Dan&#8217;s First Law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,4],"tags":[309,170,169,172,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}