2021-03-15 42 -83

Location

The north side of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Church in Beverly Hills, MI.

Participants

Alison (talk)

Plans

I had already planned on going on an errand expedition this afternoon:

Tony's Ace Hardware in Hazel Park, to get screws short enough to mount a tablet mount to my desk without piercing all the way through the desk panel.
Detroit Tuned in Clawson, to get my car's computer recoded to defeat the bulb check. (I recently replaced the turn signal and taillight bulbs with LEDs, and I was getting annoyed with my car yelling at me about the bulbs supposedly having failed.)
Kroger in Hazel Park, to get some groceries.

OLQM is about four miles from Detroit Tuned, so I planned on visiting it after getting my car taken care of.

Expedition

I left home about 16:15 and made my first stop at Tony's Ace Hardware, where I bought the screws (#8 x ¾" countersink head) uneventfully. I left there about 16:30 and headed up to Detroit Tuned. Crooks Road was slightly backed up because it's down to one lane each way, but I still arrived at Detroit Tuned a few minutes early.

I dropped off my keys at Detroit Tuned and hung out in their waiting room doing waiting room things -- admiring the various scale models and posters of Minis they had on display, answering a few work Slack messages, people-watching as another customer came in to pick up their car, etc. My car was ready around 17:40, so I input the hashpoint into Apple Maps and set off.

I hit some more traffic along the way (the left turn from 14 Mile to Greenfield gets pretty backed up) but still arrived at the hashpoint at 17:53.

Leaving the hashpoint, I realized that I also wanted to buy a three-ring binder to keep my car's maintenance receipts in, so I changed my groceries plan from Kroger in Hazel Park to Meijer in Royal Oak. I wasn't thinking straight and missed the turn onto Coolidge Highway, so I approached Meijer the back way on Delemere the way the SMART bus route 760 does. I did my grocery shopping at Meijer and drove home uneventfully.

As I sit here logging my expedition about six hours after the fact, I realize that I could have popped into the Mobil gas station around 500m north of the hashpoint to acquire a Squishy and score five GeoSquishy points. Getting a Tron achievement was always out of the question because Detroit Tuned is down a dead end street, so I didn't even bother trying.

Tracklog

I didn't record my tracks, but here's a Google Maps reconstruction of my route with the actual starting and ending points (my house) somewhat obfuscated.

Photos

Approaching the hashpoint from the north on Pierce Street.
Screenshot showing GPS coordinates at the hashpoint.
Selfie at the hashpoint!
The façade of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Parish.

Achievements

Alison (talk) earned the Holy hash achievement

by reaching the sacred (42, -83) location, which is Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, a Catholic parish in Beverly Hills, MI, on 2021-03-15.


Mon 15 Mar 2021 in 42,-83: 42.5272984, -83.2131420 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox