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Thanks to everyone who has joined us in sharing a few of our team’s favorite items from this last-ever gishing experience. On a personal note, I wanted to take a moment to say that although we don’t know where Gishwhes is going in the future, Team Bicycle Touring has been the most incredible, talented, encouraging, dedicated, ridiculous, and truly, truly wonderful group of people to share the last 5 years of scavenger hunting with. I can’t even say that they’re my dream team, because they’re better than anything I could ever have dreamed up. Thank you from me, TBT, for being my team family, for taking me to a place where finally sharing your hugs was more exciting than being inside a freaking glacier together, for showing me how much love is possible despite differences in culture, geography, and time zone. You bring out the best in me, and I am so grateful to all of you for being in my life.

And thank you to Gishwhes, from all of Team Bicycle Touring, for being the best part of our year every year for the last half-decade. You helped us to do things we would never have imagined, you encouraged us to be kind, and you made it possible for us to find each other. Thank you.

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4. IMAGE. As anyone who reads “Cosmopolitan” magazine knows, bohemian eco-chic weddings are all the rage. Let’s see a wedding dress made from recycled office paper.

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170. VIDEO: Angels may be all-powerful, but they’re luddites (technologically behind the times) and it affects their productivity in the office. Let’s see an angel writing something on an old-school mechanical typewriter (not electric) featuring a working Enochian keyboard. (The keys and keystrokes must correspond to actual Enochian typeface.)

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187. IMAGE: Every year, the scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab make spectacular pumpkin carvings that put our humble Halloween jack-o-lanterns to shame (see https://www.wired.com/2016/10/watch-nasas-high-tech-pumpkins-action/). Whatever. What’s a rocket scientist got that you don’t have? Let’s see you out-do them! Show us your best and most outlandish WATERMELON-O-LANTERN carving.

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162. IMAGE OR VIDEO: Lube luge. That's it. That's the item.

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30. IMAGE: THIS ITEM MUST BE POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA PRIOR TO THE END OF THE HUNT! NEW LEASH ON LIFE USA adopts otherwise unadoptable dogs and sends them through a unique training program. Shelter pets rarely get any attention and millions are put down each year. Many times this can be avoided if people on the Interwebs (who would like and could responsibly own a pet) were to see how cute, available, lonely and cuddly they are. Let’s save a pet or two (or thousands). Grab a friend or two and visit a shelter. Spend some time with one or more of the pets there. Post a selfie of your favorite pet looking for a “forever home” on Twitter (tagging @NewLeashUSA) or Instagram (tagging @NewLeashOnLifeUSA), using hashtag #adoptmeplease, and the social media handle or name of the shelter (so people can contact them). Submit the image you take on our site, but provide the link to your social media post link in the comment field of the submit page.

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125. VIDEO: (Time-lapse under 20 seconds.) All good things must come to an end, and so it is with the Hunt. Create a “sand” mandala featuring images that symbolize the hunt to you… all using pixie sticks as your chakpur and sand. When it’s done, show us your masterwork and then, just like the Buddhist monks, sweep it away and get ready for what’s next.

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41. IMAGE. Show us your own personal “Stairway to Heaven” -Dylan Cacador.

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43. IMAGE. Never judge a book by its cover… or bread by its shape. Bake bread or cookies into the shape of something you would DEFINITELY not want to eat. (We hate to have to say this every year, but pornographic pastries will result in docked points.)

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60. VIDEO. (Up to 30 seconds - you may speed up or slow down the video if you need to.) Using only air-moving devices or machines, successfully navigate a balloon through a strange series of obstacles. It must be suspended in the air, without anyone or anything other than moving air touching it. It must travel at least 10 yards and culminate with your friend popping it with a needle sticking out from a hat they’re wearing.

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113. IMAGE: Set up a Maximum Security Birdhouse in a beautiful public park.

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51. IMAGE. Anyone who serves in the military is risking their life to serve their nation. Being respectful to not trespass on military grounds, stand in front of a large military craft, ship, tank, or plane with an inclusive sign of thanks to every service member of every kind. You may post this image on social media prior to the end of the hunt, if you choose. Submit the image with a link to your post in the comment section (if you chose to post it).

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179. VIDEO: (Up to 45 seconds edited.) Share an audio dream diary of your first thoughts as you wake up every morning of the Hunt (so you cannot submit this until the last day of the Hunt!). It must be the first thing you do before you get out of bed.

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146. IMAGE: Two nice suburban monster moms out for a day of shopping at Hoxton’s Monster Supplies in England.

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173. IMAGE OR VIDEO: Complete one of the more challenging items on your team’s homemade gishwhes Item List.

Our Item: Recreate Norman Rockwell’s Triple-Self Portrait with your dog as the artist.

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195. VIDEO: (This video can be as long as it takes to do the job, but we hope the job goes quickly and it is gobbled up fast so the video is short!) Using a steel shredder, shred a decommissioned bus. It must be a full sized bus with at least 10 rows. It may be a school bus or a municipal bus. It may not be a VW MiniBus; it must have been built to seat at least 30. Paint a message that conveys the fact that gishwhes recycled becomes CFG (we’ll explain later). For example, you could write: “Recycled gishwhes = CFG" in large font the side of the bus. Feel free to word this differently, but convey that message. The bigger the bus the better. Oh and paint the windows of the bus to show it’s passengers. (Obviously no living being is in the bus.) Although you should upload a video as your submission, be sure to take pictures of the event in case we need those for the coffee table book (we’ll email you for them).

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100. IMAGE. Calliope. Clio. Euterpe. Erato. Melpomene. Polyhymnia. Terpischore. Thalia. Urania. Inspirational goddesses of literature, the arts and science in Greek mythology. On the steps of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, provide a visual representation of the muse that guides you in your art and/or life.