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View from the hashpoint, at speed.

Location

On the shoulder of Highway 42 between Tenmile and Camas Valley.

Participants

Michael5000 - Expedition #226
Mrs.5000

Expedition

There are perhaps nine different routes that a sane person might choose from if driving from the city where I live now to the village I grew up in. Naturally the relative merits of these various roads is an endlessly inviting, endlessly tedious subject of local conversation. Highway 42 is perhaps the 4th best route in my humble opinion, and so it's not the way I would usually choose for driving a rented truck packed with my parents' belongings. But, it would have been foolish to pass up this remarkable opportunity for a drive-by geohash. Wouldn't it have?

So, first we drove about 200 miles down Interstate 5, and turned west at Winston. With the GPS on the dashboard, I began calling out distances about two miles from the hashpoint, and Mrs. 5000 readied her camera phone. As we got within a few hundred feet, I eased the truck over to the right, across the stripe and onto the shoulder, which may have been a bit unsettling for the following traffic. Mrs. documented the moment. I saw the GPS needle flip from pointing 26 feet ahead to pointing 23 behind, and careened back into the roadway with the sense of a job well done.