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Graticule

About

I ended up going somewhere.

Expedition

NWoodruff

I was very confused about this one as in Yesterday Tuesday Aug 18th, I get a set of coordinates early in the morning. I set out planing all day on planing a route. I set my eTrex up with directions. Just before I leave work for the Hash point, I print a map of where the hash point it and it is in a totally different place. I have the peeron map still up with the hash point that I was going to. Something wasn't right. I hit refresh and then peeron map jumps to a new place. What the?????

The hash point is in the exact opposite direction that I made plans to go. I couldn't make it to the hash point.

Today, I was very skeptical about today's hash point. I kept hitting refresh all day long. It didn't change. So I set off.

It was a drive to Fayetteville out to the middle of nowhere. The closest road access to the hash point has a complete house almost a mile from anything else, just sitting there. Seems very strange to me.

I got out of my truck and looked at my eTrex. 0.39 miles to go. As I started through the woods, the bugs were every where. I was slapping at mosquitoes constantly as I made my way to the hash point.

I ran across a few deer and other animals that scurried out of the way. I found the hash point with 2.43 feet to go.

The hash point was at an old place where a still had been set up to brew moonshine. Yeeee.... Haaawwwww! I took a few pictures and made a dash back to my truck to evade the army of mosquitoes that were now tracking me down.

I went over to investigate the house in the middle of nowhere. I noticed that none of the doors were locked but someone had put a piece of wire in each of the doors to be able to tell if someone had opened the doors. The strange thing to me is driving away from where I parked it was several miles until I came across someone, and they were just driving on the other side of the road.

I was half thinking that if someone was going to dump a body, going out to that hash point would probably be the perfect place because I doubt that any one had been there since the middle 1970's.

Gallery

Photo Gallery
0.39 miles to go. I can make it.
2.43 feet to go. Close enough.
Time of the meetup.
Me with a Stupid Grin™
Picture from the hash point looking North.
Picture from the hash point looking South.
Picture of the actual Geohash point.
The remaining parts of what looks like an old Whiskey still. Yeeee... Haaaawwww!
The picture of the house that is empty and in the middle of NOWHERE!! [1]
The house is for sale.

Achievements

NWoodruff earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (33, -84) geohash on 2009-08-19.

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+Image:2009081933-84NW01.JPG| 0.39 miles to go. I can make it.
+Image:2009081933-84NW02.JPG| 2.43 feet to go. Close enough.
+Image:2009081933-84NW03.JPG| Time of the meetup.
+Image:2009081933-84NW04.JPG| Me with a Stupid Grin&trade;
+Image:2009081933-84NW05.JPG| Picture from the hash point looking North.
+Image:2009081933-84NW06.JPG| Picture from the hash point looking South.
+Image:2009081933-84NW07.JPG| Picture of the actual Geohash point.
+Image:2009081933-84NW08.JPG| The remaining parts of what looks like an old Whiskey still. Yeeee... Haaaawwww!
+Image:2009081933-84NW09.JPG| The picture of the house that is empty and in the middle of NOWHERE!! [http://www.mapquest.com/mq/6-L50d]
+Image:2009081933-84NW10.JPG| The house is for sale.
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