Tag-o-rama Gone Global

[alantf]

Originally Posted by Easy Rider

Floating Home!
Nearest candidate is over 100 miles away.

I thought the nearest was Vietnam :crackup (been watching too many Sylvester Stallone movies) :whistle:

[dhgeyer]

Well, half an hour on the Internet and the best I can come up with is a houseboat rental place in Orwell, VT, 161 miles away. But Orwell isn't even on the water, so the boats must be over on Lake Champlain somewhere. I'd have to call and make arrangements. I guess I'll pass on this one. There's something down in the Charleston Navy Yard in the greater Boston area, but there's no way I'm riding my bike down there. My death wish isn't that strong.

From the limited research I did, it seems like the floating home phenomenon is pretty much limited to the Pacific Northwest and Florida in the USA, and the adjoining geographical area in Canada. And, supposedly, there's one in Tennessee somewhere.

[alantf]

.......................... and we don't have a sigle river or lake on the island.

[cayuse]

hmmm..... thought i was being somewhat reasonable (except for Tenerife). Floating homes are found up and down both coasts, on the Mississippi, and the Great Lakes, not to mention all the canal barges in Europe. How about if I loosen it up to include houseboats?

if no one gets it, I'll tag something new tomorrow or Tuesday......

[dhgeyer]

Well, playing strictly by the rules, you are free to play your own tag after three days - tag another floating home and then something else. I think three days is reasonable. People have complained about a lot of tags as being impossible, and then someone gets them out of the blue. You never know.

We've got a couple of active members in Florida, although I don't think they've played the game yet. How about it Florida folk?

[5th_bike]

There could be a leftover houseboat somewhere around Baltimore, but no floating homes, many Maryland counties have outlawed them, they're afraid the Chesapeake Bay will get polluted... Google Maps only gives me regular boats galore, in the marinas.

Finding one in MD or DC is like finding a needle in a haystack.. I read about some of them in NJ, that would be the closest then.

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by cayuse

How about if I loosen it up to include houseboats? .....

Which is different than the original picture......how ??
I thought that's what it WAS.

[music man]

Originally Posted by Easy Rider

Which is different than the original picture......how ??
I thought that's what it WAS.

A Houseboat is a boat that is set up for you to live in, a floating house is a house that someone designed to float. :2tup:

[cayuse]

not bad Music Man. I'd say that a floating home is basically a small cottage that's built on a pontoon system or some other kind of floating foundation. They take up residence at a marina and pretty much stay put. They have no drive system and need to be towed around. Here's an example:


OTOH, a houseboat is basically an RV on pontoons with a fairly strong diesel engine to push it around a lake, usually rented. You'll see these pretty much anywhere there are large lakes attracting vacationers. Here's a good example:

[cayuse]

OK, the floating home tag has gone on long enough.
Here's another floating home tag:


and here's a new tag, a roadside vending stand (like for flowers, apples, etc.)
For some reason this one is not active, but that doesn't matter; active or not, and whatever produce.