2025-03-12 51 5
| Wed 12 Mar 2025 in 51,5: 51.3361212, 5.4501469 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
On a quiet road south of the village of Valkenswaard
Participants
Expedition
After having been geocaching since 2002, I only recently came to know about a thing called 'geohashing'. I've been following the hashes for a few days, and today the stars were aligned: a day off, and the geohash location was not too far away.
I set off from where I live, to a point between my home and the geohash, namely a shop specialised in 1980s "stuff". There were handheld and computer games, board games, action figures, LEGO, and much much more. Very nice and I had a nice chat with owner Erik, who gave me his business card.
Then it was just a few kilometers further to today's location in N50E5. Although it was next to a rural road, I parked a bit further away and looked back at where the destination should be.
There it was, waiting for me, in all its glory. And, very accessible. After a short walk, I checked my app and I could see that at 14:15 local time, I became an official geohasher! I made a panorama picture from ground zero.
Walking back, I greeted a few people walking the opposite direction.
