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“	Hi, mom! - Are you at home? - No. - Where are you? - Um, near Garmisch... - Are you geohashing again? - Um, yes... - How many of you are there? - Nine... - Well, have fun, but don't tell your father. Bye.		”
find some more great geohashing quotations here.		—Danatar, on the phone at 2009-06-07 47 10

Bo pictured before a wonderful Halloween.

My name is Bo Daugherty. I am a neogeohasher from West Knoxville, TN. I found out about geohashing on digg. xkcd is usually on the Top Stories, so I clicked on the link and had my little laugh. I was in quite the inquisitive mood that day, which led me to Wikipedia searching the origins of xkcd. After reading a little about Randall Munroe, I came across a link to geohashing. Here, my adventures began!

My first ever hash was attempted and succeeded on November 27th, 2009.

You are more than welcome to contact me via e-mail or my Facebook page.

Geohashing Equipment

GPS
Camera
Flashlight
Folder
Friends
Creativity
Persistence

Statistics

Hashes Attempted: 2
Hashes Succeeded: 2
Successful Percentage: 100%
Hashes Failed: 0
Failed Percentage: 0%
Graticules Visited: 1

Expeditions

I have listed my expeditions in order from most recent to oldest. Numbers in bold are to help keep count of successful hashes.

2009-11-28 35 -84 (Cleveland, TN): Brett and I were chased out by a horse! #2
2009-11-27 35 -84 (Cleveland, TN): This was my very first hash! It was very easy, though exciting, to reach. #1

Achievements

Bo earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (35, -84) geohash on 2009-11-27.

Bo earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging Alex Collier, Brett and Nate to the (35, -84) geohash on 2009-11-27.

Bo has visited an Easy Geohash

by reaching the (35, -84) geohash on 2009-11-27 without really trying.

Bo earned the Consecutive geohash achievement

by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-11-27.

Graticules

Fellow Geohashers

Rebecca Cole
Brett Coleman
Alex Collier
Jordan Kilbey
Nate Starkey

Websites

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+|0={{quoteMore|center|As it was my very first expedition, I was very excited about it. I wasn't expecting grand adventure, as the destination was just an hour walk from the city, but I was positively surprised, when I found a medieval tower on my way, that I had no idea was there.|[[2009-02-23_52_-7|JRK]]}}
+|1={{quoteMore|center|There's probably only one IRC channel in the world where you can complain about the stupid forest not being [[Cold_Geohash|cold enough]] at -9°C and everyone understands and agrees without raising an eyebrow.|[[2008-12-30 49 12|Dawidi]]}}
+|2={{quoteMore|center|Then I realised, despite all my whining, my pain and exhaustion, my total lack of any positive thoughts at all, I was enjoying myself. I was having one of the most exhilarating times of my life. I was exploring a place that no one had ever been, seeing things no one had ever seen, pushing my body to its limit for a ridiculously pointless goal and loving every second of it.|[[2008-10-31_-32_138|UnwiseOwl]]}}
+|3={{quoteMore|center|We then attempted to explain the geohashing concept but eventually gave up and, with great authority, said "don't worry, we're from the Internet" which seemed to satisfy her.|[[2008-05-24 53 -113|Mike V, Edmonton]]}}
+|4={{quoteMore|center|Made it there about lunch time. Mrs. Killingsworth, the nice, older lady that lives there, just could not understand why "the internet" was sending people to her house!|[[2008-07-19 33 -86|N76Lima]]}}
+|5={{quoteMore|center|I didn't bring any skis on this expedition, so when the GPS reported the hash being 59 m from the road, I thought "close enough" and called it a night. No, really, I walked/crawled through the waist-deep snow to reach the hash. I should be declared insane, but I made it.|[[2009-02-11_66_21|the_ru]]}}
+|6={{quoteMore|center|Basically, we take a random point based on the Stock exchange and the current date, and go and have wacky adventures. Think of me as a new kind of adventure capitalist.|[[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]], explaining geohashing to a friend.}}
+|7={{quoteMore|center|"He tells me that he was burglarized recently, that he assumed that's why I was there, and that when he saw me (must've looked pretty weird, me stamping the grass and taking pictures of it), he was sitting by the window with his RIFLE debating whether or not to SHOOT ME."|[[User:Bird|Bird]] in #geohashing about his [[2009-05-23 55 9|debut hash]]}}
+|8={{quoteMore|center|See, two weird looking young men, are sitting on somebody's roof maybe a 100 meters away from a military base, have no explanation of what they are doing there ("uh, well, we picked a random spot and went there, officer, honest!"), and one has a hat with a communist star. Right. Not suspicious in the least.|[[2009-06-15 41 28|Superbest]], describing the strategic retreat to the roof of a stranger's house for the night.}}
+|9={{quoteMore|center|Hi, mom! - Are you at home? - No. - Where are you? - Um, near Garmisch... - Are you geohashing again? - Um, yes... - How many of you are there? - Nine... - Well, have fun, but don't tell your father. Bye.|[[User:Danatar|Danatar]], on the phone at [[:Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_Danatar_Telephone.jpg|2009-06-07 47 10]]}}
+|10={{quoteMore|center|When the Coast Guard told us to come onto their boat while they towed the raft to shore, we completely neglected to wield our plastic cutlasses menacingly and cry out "Prepare to be boarded, ye scurvy dogs!" as we leapt aboard.|[[2009-07-11_49_-123|Robyn]]}}
+|11={{quoteMore|center|Put it this way, common sense is my middle name. My first name's "absolutely no".|[[2009-06-15_41_28|Superbest]]}}
+|12={{quoteMore|center|12:25 - What the hell... Edit conflict? Pari!|[[2009-08-29_52_13|davidc]] on Pari, who were both live editing the wiki during the expedition}}
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 [[Image:File.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Bo pictured before a wonderful Halloween.]]