Difference between revisions of "2018-08-07 41 -71"

Latest revision as of 20:38, 16 May 2020

Location

The edge of a parking lot at a public school complex off Ocean Street, Providence, RI, USA

Participants

Plans

I work in Providence, and this location seems fairly accessible for a quick jaunt after work. As it happens, my great-great-great-grandfather Zacharias Wennerbäck built his home in RI a block north on Ocean Street after immigrating [illegally] from Sweden in 1837. Since the GPS accuracy was much lower in the 1800's, I'm tempted to claim this as ancestral deja-vu-hash, and maybe even couch potato.

Expedition

I found my way to the parking lot, and did the geohash dance until I got pretty close - and a woman came out of the school building and asked me to leave, saying it was private property. I said I thought it was a public school, just wanted to take a picture, and waved my "I'm from the internet poster" - this did not satisfy her - apparently it was a day care center and they had some reason to be concerned about strange men from the internet. I left quietly, and snapped a single photo through the parking lot fence. The hash was under the pine tree on the left. Then I drove a block north to where my great-great-great-grandfather Zacharias Wennerbäck had built his first home in the new world. I introduced myself to a neighbor watering his garden so I wouldn't seem TOO suspicious, and was soon offered a cold cerveza and encouraged to come back anytime. Since Zacharias and his sons built several houses in this neighborhood over the 50 years he lived here, I'm claiming ancestral deja-vu-geohash. The accidental meetups keep getting better!

Tracklog

Handy online calculator http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html tells me I was off by 2.756 meters.

Photos

pretty damn close
a parting shot
ancestral home nearby
ancestral home in 1930
ancestral foolish grin™

Achievements

Vbob (talk) earned the Ancestral Deja-Vu Hash

by because his g-g-g-grandfather lived on this street for 50 years (41, -71) geohash on 2018-08-07.

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 I work in Providence, and this location seems fairly accessible for a quick jaunt after work.
 As it happens, my great-great-great-grandfather Zacharias Wennerbäck built his home in RI a block north on Ocean Street after immigrating [illegally] from Sweden in 1837.
-Since the GPS accuracy was much lower in the 1800's, I'm tempted to claim this as ancestral retrohash, and maybe even couch potato.
+Since the GPS accuracy was much lower in the 1800's, I'm tempted to claim this as ancestral deja-vu-hash, and maybe even couch potato.
 == Expedition ==
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-I found my way to the parking lot, and did the geohash dance until I got pretty close - and a woman came out of the school building and asked me to leave, saying it was private property. I said I thought it was a public school, just wanted to take a picture, and waved my "I'm from the internet poster" - this did not satisfy her - apparently it was a day care center and they had some reason to be concerned about strange men from the internet.  I left quietly, and snapped a single photo through the parking lot fence.  Then I drove a block north to where my great-great-great-grandfather Zacharias Wennerbäck had built his first home in the new world. I introduced myself to a neighbor watering his garden so I wouldn't seem suspicious, and was soon offered a cerveza and encouraged to come back anytime. Since Zacharias and his sons built several houses in this neighborhood over the 50 years he lived here, I'm claiming ancestral retro-geohash. The accidental meetups keep getting better!
+I found my way to the parking lot, and did the geohash dance until I got pretty close - and a woman came out of the school building and asked me to leave, saying it was private property. I said I thought it was a public school, just wanted to take a picture, and waved my "I'm from the internet poster" - this did not satisfy her - apparently it was a day care center and they had some reason to be concerned about strange men from the internet.  I left quietly, and snapped a single photo through the parking lot fence.  The hash was under the pine tree on the left. Then I drove a block north to where my great-great-great-grandfather Zacharias Wennerbäck had built his first home in the new world. I introduced myself to a neighbor watering his garden so I wouldn't seem TOO suspicious, and was soon offered a cold cerveza and encouraged to come back anytime. Since Zacharias and his sons built several houses in this neighborhood over the 50 years he lived here, I'm claiming ancestral deja-vu-geohash. The accidental meetups keep getting better!
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