Difference between revisions of "2017-12-26 45 -122"

Latest revision as of 03:14, 16 August 2019

Location

On a short cul-de-sac in Beaverton

Participants

Jim

Plans

Go by in the evening on my way home

Expedition

I was thinking I would head there after work, but the frozen and icy conditions rendered going to work not a clever choice, so I worked from home - luckily I had my computer at home from last week.

In the evening I went off to run some errands before it got too cold and icy. I got the tasks done, but decided to be a little adventurous and tried a new route, using my GPS to help guide me. Unfortunately, I missed the first 7 in the coordinates when I entered them and the GPS was sending me to someplace up in the hills 3 miles from the hashpoint. I kept trying to loop back towards where I knew the hashpoint was, but it kept pulling me off. Finally, I stopped and recheck the programming and fixed the problem. Then the GPS told me "3 feet", because I had stopped on the hashpoint!

It turns out that I knew exactly where the hashpoint was when I saw it on Google Maps because a group I'm part of used to meet near here a few years ago, and I'd sometimes drive through this driveway to get there. So this probably counts as a Deja Vu.

I took a picture of the GPS, but it was dark out, so nothing else was going to work.

Photos

Achievements

Land Geohash
Deja Vu

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+On a short cul-de-sac in Beaverton
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+* [[User:Jiml|Jim]]
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+Go by in the evening on my way home
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+I was thinking I would head there after work, but the frozen and icy conditions rendered going to work not
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+a clever choice, so I worked from home - luckily I had my computer at home from last week.
+In the evening I went off to run some errands before it got too cold and icy.   I got the tasks done, but decided to be
+a little adventurous and tried a new route, using my GPS to help guide me.  Unfortunately, I missed the first 7 in the
+coordinates when I entered them and the GPS was sending me to someplace up in the hills 3 miles from the hashpoint.   I kept trying
+to loop back towards where I knew the hashpoint was, but it kept pulling me off.   Finally, I stopped and recheck the
+programming and fixed the problem.   Then the GPS told me "3 feet", because I had stopped on the hashpoint!
+It turns out that I knew exactly where the hashpoint was when I saw it on Google Maps because a group I'm part of used
+to meet near here a few years ago, and I'd sometimes drive through this driveway to get there.  So this probably counts
+as a Deja Vu.
+I took a picture of the GPS, but it was dark out, so nothing else was going to work.
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