Our house in Elkton, MD, the place where Carolyn and I lived for most of out adult lives, and where we raised out children, is in the north east corner of Maryland. There were days when it rained in the afternoon and then stopped in the late afternoon. On those days, there would be a rainbow. The way rainbows work, they're always on the opposite side of you from where the sun is located, and in the late afternoon, the sun, at least in Elkton, and probably in the entire northern hemisphere, is located southwest of your location. That means the rainbow is located northeast of your location.
Carolyn would load the kids in the car and tell them they were going to look for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. After the first time, the kids kind of knew that they'd never find a pot of gold, but there were scenic little country roads swirling between woods, farms, and horse ranches that led northeast to a friendly little ice cream store. That store was at the end of the rainbow.
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