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Expedition

The Plan

On Mango Tree Drive near the Edgewater Public Library. Get on 95 southbound for about a hundred miles, easy peasy. Probably won't go for Speed Racer, given it's summer, school's out, and kids may be playing outside. Plus, this one's just me and trying to prove that I was doing the speed limit while taking pictures as proof isn't even a debatable bad idea, just a genuine bad idea.

As soon as I realized this was a reachable hash on a day I could actually afford to drop everything to drive an hour and a half, I was on board. After all, it's not every day you get the opportunity to complete not just one minesweeper, but two.

The Geohashers

Geoff

The Adventure

This was my first real test of my medication after over a year. One of the reasons I stopped geohashing was that I couldn't travel for very long without a form of panic attacks. I had verified it in shorter trips, but how would it hold up when driving for an hour at a time? Wonderfully, as it turns out. I was able to get a largely stress-free ride out of it.

I hadn't taken too much effort in planning, nor did I set up a GPS to begin with, so I was glad I at least remembered the exit. From there, the problem was a grid layout combined with similar street names, compounded by seeing police pull someone over near my turn. One wrong turn was thankfully easily solved without getting back on the main road, and I proceeded to Mango Tree Drive. From there, I snapped a few pictures, did the geohash dance, and turned back around, largely because I noticed someone had a fondness for model lighthouses. Not the first time I've heard of that, but the first time I've seen them proudly displayed outside. I approve!

Also, that lack of planning thing was a bit of a lie. I did some looking around on the map earlier and noticed that Edgewater Public Library was within a mile. I stopped in there to leave the marker, but not before taking a good look around. The entire place made me step back twenty years. They had the old-fashioned maps, not the ones that fold out, but the giant wall covering ones. It reminded me of my dad using the huge foldouts to plot a flight. The library itself looked like so many others, but still took me back to a time when I regularly visited.

On the way back, I merged into a lane and had a bit of a heart attack; an 18-wheeler was being towed, and I have to say, that is not something you want to see when merging.