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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.
 
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.
 
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. [[User:Sebejias|Sebejias]] and [[User:LevinSerra|LevinSerra]], if you made that meetup, let me know, as the honor then belongs to you!
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Postpostscript: As it looks like the planned [[2010-07-31_36_-80]] expedition never occurred, and [[User:Oracle989|Oracle989]] did not reach the coordinates for the [[2009-10-04_36_-80]] expedition, I believe this is a virgin graticule achievement. [[User:Sebejias|Sebejias]], [[User:LevinSerra|LevinSerra]], and [[User:Oracle989|Oracle989]], let me know if this is not true!
  
 
== Photos ==  
 
== Photos ==  

Revision as of 19:15, 16 May 2012

Tue 15 May 2012 in 36,-80:
36.0962780, -80.2920972
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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.

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 planned 2010-07-31_36_-80 expedition never occurred, and Oracle989 did not reach the coordinates for the 2009-10-04_36_-80 expedition, I believe this is a virgin graticule achievement. Sebejias, LevinSerra, and Oracle989, let me know if this is not true!

Photos

Achievements

Landgeohash.png
Birdray earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (36, -80) geohash on 2012-05-15.
2012-05-15 36 -80 1.jpg
Drag-along.png
Birdray earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging Vera to the (36, -80) geohash on 2012-05-15.
2012-05-15 36 -80 1.jpg

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