Curious - Santa Clones

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Now for something a little quirky. In an effort to brighten the holiday season, Chris Willis started a tradition of putting 400 vintage glowing Santa Clones in secret locations around downtown Portland, OR. The challenge was to have people try to find the Santas using a few clues where the Santas were hidden. The tradition has been going on for 10 years but this was my second year. This year’s clues were the following Haikus (Hai-clues).

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Where cola once flowed,
the plant all but forgotten,
yet left us a splash
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Carbonated waves,
a frothy sea of soda,
on a sandy shore.
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Liquid silver face,
two seven near the zipper,
solve and hit paydirt.

Based on these Hai-clues, we were able to locate the Santa Clones in a vacant building near an old Pepsi-Cola bottling plant near a building named The Zipper on Sandy Blvd. 😎

Curious Cat Trail, Portland, OR

Spent an interesting and somewhat weird Saturday with friends looking for cat statues in downtown Portland, Oregon. Thirty-one cat statues were created by Laika Studios and setup throughout the downtown area in a joint effort to inspire people to visit the downtown area. The cat statues were modeled after the cat in the Oscar-nominated stop motion animated movie “Coraline” that was locally produced by Laika studios in 2009. We managed to find 9 of the 31 statues which, all things considered, seemed pretty good. The “Curious Cat Trail” will end October 13th, 2024 so, I guess there’s still time to find more 😸

Coraline's Curious Cat trail map

Curious Cat #3

Curious Cat #23

Curious Cat #11

Curious Cat #8

Curious Cat #13

Curious Cat #4

Curious Cat #19

Curious Cat #14