2009-07-28 49 -122

Tue 28 Jul 2009 in Delta: 49.1648351, -122.9660527 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Possibly a store front on Annacis Island in Delta

Participants

• Xore
• Rhonda
• PhilB

Plans

After work

• Meet at 22nd Street skytrain at 5:25pm
• Catch the 104 bus at bay 5, ~5:31pm (runs every 12 minutes) Map Timetable
• Reach the hashpoint
• Catch the bus back

Expedition

In progress.

Rhonda

In addition to geohashing, I had to buy car insurance on this expedition as it expires today. Not my favourite activity at the best of times. Fortunately the insurance place is on the way to the seabus terminal, so I left home with plenty of time to spare to make the 16:30 seabus after my chores.

When I reached the street corner where I could see the insurance place, about a 10min walk from my house in the current heat wave, I realized that I had forgotten a critical piece of paperwork without which nobody would sell me car insurance. Not proof of ownership, not my ID - my car's AirCare report.

If I hurried, I might be able to get back home, back here, and on the 16:30 seabus, if the transaction was very fast. There was no way, however, that I was going to be running in this weather. It wasn't that much of an emergency.

Home, found the required paperwork, and back to the insurance place. Only to find that they didn't do car insurance anymore. Fortunately I had two other options within a few blocks, so I hurried to the one more on the way to the seabus terminal, which happened to be right on top of the seabus terminal. It was less than ten minutes to the 16:30 seabus departure when I walked up to the doors and saw 1) that the hours printed indicated that the company closed at 4PM, and 2) there were still people inside. I went in, despite the hours, and found out that they were still open for another ten minutes. I also found out that I needed a bright orange visitor's security badge in order to walk across the lobby to the customer service desk and the insurance sales desk, both visible from the security desk. I wondered what else they do here that requires a security pass system.

The service was refreshingly fast for a giant insurance company, and I went down the escalator and onto the seabus with more than three minutes to spare before departure.

On seabus and skytrain, I listened to an audiobook and stared out the window, and completely forgot to take pictures of transit, because I've already done that and why take the same picture every time I do a transit hash?

I arrived at 22nd St. skytrain station in good time; early enough in fact to see the previous 104 still at its stop. I opted to wait in the shade under a tree at the station instead of taking an earlier bus and waiting in a parking lot.

I sat down and sweated for ten minutes or so, and saw the 104 that we planned to take arrive. One minute before the bus' scheduled departure, xore still wasn't there so I phoned to find out he was just pulling in to the station and would be down in about 30 seconds. As he told me this, the bus closed its doors and left.

Photos

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  We arrived

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  and marked the spot;

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  PhilB

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  Rhonda

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  and xore.