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Revision as of 06:12, 27 November 2013

Location

At Steak & Shake in Bolingbrook

Participants

Plans

Mystrsyko - This place is a favorite of mine and my co-workers, so we'll probably be stopping by between 10pm and midnight.

Expedition

Checking the hash points today around 4pm (a little late for a meetup, lol), I was delighted to see the point in my hometown of Bolingbrook, and flabergasted to see it at the Steak & Shake restaurant on Weber Road. My coworkers and I tend to frequent the place after work, so after a few texts and phone calls, I arranged to meet some of them after they got out of work at 10pm.

At roughly 10:30, the group of us met up and swamped the unfortunate servers with orders. Our favorite server was working, though, so she played it up and we all had a great time. Our group consisted of myself (mystrsyko), Dolphintreasure, my sister Becky, Dan, Taylor, Matt, John, and Gabe, all of whom became accidental geohashers once I explained the purpose of the get together. Most of them didn't seem to care, but some showed some interest.

After hanging around for a bit and paying our tabs, myself, Dolphintreasure and Becky went around back with the gps to look for the hash point while everyone else went home. We determined it to be somewhere a few feet inside the building, placing it in the Steak & Shake kitchen. We were within our margin of error, however, so the three of us took some photos in front of the drive-through sign next to the hash point and made our way home to be out of the cold.

Photos

Our group, minus myself
Becky, DolphinTreasure, and Geo the green hashchicken
Mystrsyko joins Becky and Geo for a photo
GPS says it's where we were just sitting!

Achievements

Mystrsyko, DolphinTreasure, & 6 friends earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (41, -88) geohash on 2013-11-24.

Mystrsyko, DolphinTreasure, & 6 friends earned the Midnight Geohash achievement

by reaching the (41, -88) geohash on 2013-11-24 in the middle of the night.

Mystrsyko & Dolphintreasure earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging 6 friends to the (41, -88) geohash on 2013-11-24.

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Sun 24 Nov 2013 in 41,-88: 41.6978916, -88.1242399 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox