Difference between revisions of "2010-10-12 29 -95"

Revision as of 08:31, 21 October 2010

Location

On Waugh St. between Clay and W. Gray Sts., west of downtown Houston. Arty / emerging area. Not sure what's on this block - can't wait to learn. Could be a boutique, ice-house, auto shop, or as is so likely in Houston, a nail salon.

Participants

Phineas

Plans

1:30 PM CDT

speed racer drive through
then return to wander around and snap photos - if the neighborhood is not a dangerous hood.

Expedition

Successful!!

A quick jaunt from downtown Houston west to this haspoint. Even though I could find the intersection without a GPS, I wanted to catch the lat/long on the device. But, I fumble fingered one digit in the lat, and the GPS keep giving me bad directions - which I ignored until after I arrived.

Nice little neighborhood, beautiful sunny day. Reach the hash via a few roads I'd never been on - nice to see different surroundings in an area I thought I knew already.

GPS photo is from across the street from point, after Speed Racing through.

All the elements of a pleasant, quick urban Geohash.

Photos

Quaint neighborhood surrounds hashpoint. Note the palm trees
Finally a clear GPS picture - across the intersection from hash
A pleasant view a few blocks away. Yikes.

Achievements

Phineas earned the Speed racer achievement

by passing through the (29, -95) geohash on 2010-10-12 at 40 mph.

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 == Location ==
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 On Waugh St. between Clay and W. Gray Sts., west of downtown Houston. Arty / emerging area. Not sure what's on this block - can't wait to learn. Could be a boutique, ice-house, auto shop, or as is so likely in Houston, a nail salon.
 == Participants ==
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 == Plans ==
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 :30 PM CDT
-- speed racer drive through
+* speed racer drive through
-- then return to wander around and snap photos - if the neighborhood is not a dangerous hood.
+* then return to wander around and snap photos - if the neighborhood is not a dangerous hood.
 == Expedition ==
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 Successful!!
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 All the elements of a pleasant, quick urban Geohash.
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 File:2010-10-12_29_-95_001.JPG | Quaint neighborhood surrounds hashpoint. Note the palm trees
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 {{Speed racer
 | latitude = 29
 | longitude = -95
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 | name = [[User:phineas|Phineas]]
 | speed = 40 mph
 }}
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