2012-05-15 36 -80

Tue 15 May 2012 in 36,-80: 36.0962780, -80.2920972 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Just to one side of a Y-intersection of two roads in the Country Club neighborhoods of Winston-Salem.

Participants

Birdray, who also dragged a friend (Vera), unintentionally achieving the drag-along achievement. (Mostly it was just fun to have an adventure buddy.)

Plans

I was thrilled to see that the day's hashpoint was not only within two miles of my apartment, but was also on a residential road, i.e. somewhere I could reasonably show up without having to talk my way onto someone's property. We planned to acquire a copy of the day's paper, just to have an old-school timestamp on the expedition. There was also a pre-hash nap planned in, because that's how we roll.

Expedition

I went to pick up Vera from the bookstore and we went in search of a newspaper. After finding the New York Times at Harris Teeter, we used the Android Geohashing app to map directions to the hashpoint, which was at that point about a mile away. I had my fingers crossed that my phone wouldn't die, as I had somehow fried my charger and was running on about 30% battery before I turned the GPS on. We came to the Y-intersection, parked the car, and started wandering in search of the hashpoint.

"What does it look like?" Vera asked.

"I'm not sure, we haven't found it yet!"

"Oh! It's... it's not a thing?"

"Nope, just a set of coordinates."

Vera commented on the likelihood of getting the cops called on us for wandering around cluelessly in a very affluent neighborhood. Vera had a point.

The app lit up about ten feet from the kerb, to which we promptly had to relocate when a car came along. We took pictures, in which I look like a rabid groundhog given that I'm exceptionally prone to red-eye, as it was getting dark, and then headed back to the car.

"I hope there have been lots of other people today," Vera said.

"Oh, I doubt it. There are very few Geohashers in the area."

We got back to the car and ate Sour Patch Kids.

Postscript: I greatly regret not attempting the Speed Racer achievement, but as it was getting dark, we decided to hightail it out.

Postpostscript: As it looks like the 2010-07-31_36_-80 meetup never actually occurred, I believe this is a virgin graticule achievement. Sebejias and LevinSerra, if you made that meetup, let me know, as the honor then belongs to you!

Achievements

Birdray earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (36, -80) geohash on 2012-05-15.

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Birdray earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Vera to the (36, -80) geohash on 2012-05-15.

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