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== Location ==
 
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In Apeldoorn on the bank of the Apeldoorn Kanaal
 
In Apeldoorn on the bank of the Apeldoorn Kanaal
  
 
== Participants ==
 
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== Plans ==
 
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[[User:Shevek|Shevek]] planned to go hitchhiking and be there at 3pm, [[User:Eupeodes|Eupeodes]] decided to go by bike and arrive at the same moment. It worked out differently.
 
[[User:Shevek|Shevek]] planned to go hitchhiking and be there at 3pm, [[User:Eupeodes|Eupeodes]] decided to go by bike and arrive at the same moment. It worked out differently.
  
 
== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
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===Eupeodes===
 
===Eupeodes===
 
Intended to leave at around 1pm so I would be there at 3pm and be back home before dinner. In the end I left at around 3:45 by recumbent bike. The ride started nice, bit up and down. Of course my speed dropped around Hoenderloo, it always does. After this I had some longe stretches down, speeds exceeded 40 km/h, it was chilly. Arrived at the hashpoint at 5:36pm. Took some pictures and set of to get back home. Since I was aiming for tron and I don't like driving the same way back anyways I took a different route. After some time it started to rain so I took shelter under a tree. Waited until the worst part passed and just at that moment the tree started to leak so I continued my way. When I was in Arnhem it was already around 8pm and I hadn't had diner yet, so got some pasta at Julia's at the central station. Now I could continue my way home and I arrived home with a bit over 100 km driven (40 to the hash, 60 the way back).
 
Intended to leave at around 1pm so I would be there at 3pm and be back home before dinner. In the end I left at around 3:45 by recumbent bike. The ride started nice, bit up and down. Of course my speed dropped around Hoenderloo, it always does. After this I had some longe stretches down, speeds exceeded 40 km/h, it was chilly. Arrived at the hashpoint at 5:36pm. Took some pictures and set of to get back home. Since I was aiming for tron and I don't like driving the same way back anyways I took a different route. After some time it started to rain so I took shelter under a tree. Waited until the worst part passed and just at that moment the tree started to leak so I continued my way. When I was in Arnhem it was already around 8pm and I hadn't had diner yet, so got some pasta at Julia's at the central station. Now I could continue my way home and I arrived home with a bit over 100 km driven (40 to the hash, 60 the way back).
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===Shevek===
 
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My plans, including the change, are documented [[2012-07-15 53 4|here]], as is the first part of my expedition. It continues [[2012-07-15 53 4|here]]. After that, my friend dropped my off at the highway to Utrecht. I planned to do Utrecht, Amersfoort, Apeldoorn. However, I got a ride to Utrecht, then to Nieuwegein. I turned around there, to get back on the road, but had to wait a long time. Eventually I was picked up and driven to Utrecht again, a bit closer to the highway to Amersfoort this time. However, not many cars for Amersfoort passed, so eventually I accepted a ride to Ede, and changed to plan to go from there to Arnhem, Apeldoorn. Not a large detour anyway.
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Ede-Wageningen seems like a perfect place for hitch-hiking: traffic from two towns goes onto the highway there, and the highway only goes to Arnhem, so any car that stops is good. So far the theoretical part. It took more than two hours before a car stopped. That car contained a woman and a dog. The dog seemed uneasy. The woman said it was a "wild pittbull", and she wasn't sure if it was safe. She recommended me not to trust it (in other words, not to get into the car). Well, it was her dog, so I suppose she would know. Then why did she stop in the first place? Ah well.
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It was getting dark, and I was beginning to worry that I might not make it back home. Luckily, I had had enough bad luck, it seemed, because then something good happened: a car stopped, with three people who lived very close to Emmeloord, where I grew up. And they were happy to take me there. I was happy to have a roof for the night, so I accepted the offer. When I told them about my expedition, and asked if they could make a detour in Apeldoorn, they liked the idea. So they joined me to the hash.
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Getting there was not the problem. Getting my gps to work was. Maybe it was the trees, maybe my gps is just broken. Anyway, it was sometimes sort of steady at a few meters distance from the hash, and then it jumped to 70 or even 200 meters without us even moving. It was quite easy to be at the hash point within the accuracy of the gps device at that moment. The screenshot was taken at a sort of short distance.
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My drivers wanted to be on the picture with me. I was told I had to stand next to the girl. She was a beautiful girl, so I happily agreed.
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They brought me to my father's house, where I arrived after 23:00. It was dark by then, and I was happy I didn't have to hitch-hike all the way to Groningen. I'll do that tomorrow. I'll take a short detour and go over [[2012-07-16 52 6|Hoogezand]].
  
 
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===Eupeodes===
 
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Image:2012-07-15_52_5_Sun1.JPG | Sun going down
 
Image:2012-07-15_52_5_Sun1.JPG | Sun going down
 
Image:2012-07-15_52_5_Sun2.JPG | Sun going down
 
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Image:2012-07-15 52 5 hitchhiking.jpg|I really was hitch-hiking. And I really didn't have a sign.
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Image:2012-07-15 52 5 group.jpg|All four of us. Note how the girl is standing next to me. ;-)
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Image:2012-07-15 52 5 diabolo henk.jpg|The driver, playing with my diabolo.
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Image:2012-07-15 52 5 diabolo4.jpg|Me, playing with my diabolo.
 
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Location

In Apeldoorn on the bank of the Apeldoorn Kanaal

Participants

Eupeodes

Shevek

Plans

Shevek planned to go hitchhiking and be there at 3pm, Eupeodes decided to go by bike and arrive at the same moment. It worked out differently.

Expedition

Eupeodes

Intended to leave at around 1pm so I would be there at 3pm and be back home before dinner. In the end I left at around 3:45 by recumbent bike. The ride started nice, bit up and down. Of course my speed dropped around Hoenderloo, it always does. After this I had some longe stretches down, speeds exceeded 40 km/h, it was chilly. Arrived at the hashpoint at 5:36pm. Took some pictures and set of to get back home. Since I was aiming for tron and I don't like driving the same way back anyways I took a different route. After some time it started to rain so I took shelter under a tree. Waited until the worst part passed and just at that moment the tree started to leak so I continued my way. When I was in Arnhem it was already around 8pm and I hadn't had diner yet, so got some pasta at Julia's at the central station. Now I could continue my way home and I arrived home with a bit over 100 km driven (40 to the hash, 60 the way back).

It turned out to be some advantage that Eupeodes knew the way quite well. His parents live only about one kilometer from the hash, so he knew the way to the hash. Although Eupeodes cycled/walked almost every part of the Kanaal, the hash appeared to be on one of those rare sections where he had never been yet.

Shevek

My plans, including the change, are documented here, as is the first part of my expedition. It continues here. After that, my friend dropped my off at the highway to Utrecht. I planned to do Utrecht, Amersfoort, Apeldoorn. However, I got a ride to Utrecht, then to Nieuwegein. I turned around there, to get back on the road, but had to wait a long time. Eventually I was picked up and driven to Utrecht again, a bit closer to the highway to Amersfoort this time. However, not many cars for Amersfoort passed, so eventually I accepted a ride to Ede, and changed to plan to go from there to Arnhem, Apeldoorn. Not a large detour anyway.

Ede-Wageningen seems like a perfect place for hitch-hiking: traffic from two towns goes onto the highway there, and the highway only goes to Arnhem, so any car that stops is good. So far the theoretical part. It took more than two hours before a car stopped. That car contained a woman and a dog. The dog seemed uneasy. The woman said it was a "wild pittbull", and she wasn't sure if it was safe. She recommended me not to trust it (in other words, not to get into the car). Well, it was her dog, so I suppose she would know. Then why did she stop in the first place? Ah well.

It was getting dark, and I was beginning to worry that I might not make it back home. Luckily, I had had enough bad luck, it seemed, because then something good happened: a car stopped, with three people who lived very close to Emmeloord, where I grew up. And they were happy to take me there. I was happy to have a roof for the night, so I accepted the offer. When I told them about my expedition, and asked if they could make a detour in Apeldoorn, they liked the idea. So they joined me to the hash.

Getting there was not the problem. Getting my gps to work was. Maybe it was the trees, maybe my gps is just broken. Anyway, it was sometimes sort of steady at a few meters distance from the hash, and then it jumped to 70 or even 200 meters without us even moving. It was quite easy to be at the hash point within the accuracy of the gps device at that moment. The screenshot was taken at a sort of short distance.

My drivers wanted to be on the picture with me. I was told I had to stand next to the girl. She was a beautiful girl, so I happily agreed.

They brought me to my father's house, where I arrived after 23:00. It was dark by then, and I was happy I didn't have to hitch-hike all the way to Groningen. I'll do that tomorrow. I'll take a short detour and go over Hoogezand.

Tracklog

Tracklog of Eupeodes

Photos

Eupeodes

Shevek

Achievements

Earliest.jpgConsecutivegeohash.jpgBikegeohash.pngLightcycle.pngLandgeohash.png
Eupeodes earned the Earliest consecutive bicycle tron land geohash Achievement
by biking to the hash, reaching it before Shevek and not crossing his own trail at the (52, 5) geohash on 2012-07-15.
2012-07-15 52 5 Me and my bike.JPG
Earliest.jpg
Eupeodes earned the Earliest geohasher achievement
by arriving first at the (52, 5) geohash on 2012-07-15.
2012-07-15 52 5 Proof.JPG
Consecutivegeohash.jpg
Eupeodes earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2012-07-14.
Bikegeohash.png
Eupeodes earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling 100 km (40 there, 60 back) to the (52, 5) geohash on 2012-07-15.
2012-07-15 52 5 Me and my bike.JPG
Lightcycle.png
Eupeodes earned the Tron achievement
by reaching and returning from the (52, 5) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2012-07-15.
Landgeohash.png
Eupeodes and Shevek earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (52, 5) geohash on 2012-07-15.
Thumbsup.png
Shevek earned the Thumbs Up Geohash Achievement
by hitchhiking to the (52, 5) geohash on 2012-07-15, and withstanding the Vogon poetry of the driver.
2012-07-15 52 5 hitchhiking.jpg
Circusgeohash.GIF
Shevek earned the Circus Geohash Achievement
by throwing a diabolo around at the (52, 5) geohash on 2012-07-15.
2012-07-15 52 5 diabolo4.jpg
Drag-along.png
Shevek earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging three hitchees to the (52, 5) geohash on 2012-07-15.
2012-07-15 52 5 diabolo henk.jpg
Multihash.png
Shevek earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching 3 hash points on 2012-07-15. It's a Triple Hash.
2012-07-15 52 5 group.jpg