Difference between revisions of "2019-05-04 50 10"

Latest revision as of 11:26, 17 August 2023

Location

railway station Zella-Mehlis, southern end of platform 5

Participants

Plans

GeorgDerReisende

Traveling by train, standing at the hash at hash o'clock, taking the train at 16:05 for home.

Expedition

GeorgDerReisende

I left home at 10:30 and with a bus and three trains I traveled to Zella-Mehlis. I arrived there at 14:19. I found out, that the hash was on platform 5. But it was an easy hash and I wanted to go to the hash at hash o'clock, so I tried to leave the place. But I wanted to take a first photo. But a man walked into the direction of the hash and he made some strange gestures. And I thought, this behaviour looks like a dancing geohasher. And I walked to the hash and I met Danatar. After the meetup I made a walk to Zella-Mehlis and I walked back to the train station. At hash o'clock I waited again at the hash. But nobody else arrived. At 16:05 I took the train and traveled home.

the hash at platform 5
a stranger at the hash
Danatar is dancing
the site of hash
GeorgDerReisende at the hash at hash o'clock

Danatar

I was on my way from Dresden to Würzburg for a round birthday party and as usual I looked up possible hashpoints along the way. When I noticed this one directly at the Zella-Mehlis train station I decided to visit it. This meant using the route along the A4/A71 via Jena and Suhl, which is a bit longer than my usual route along the A72 via Hof. In order to not drive too many additional kilometers I decided to trade time for distance and left the A4 at the Apolda exit. From there I drove along country roads through Bad Berka, Kranichfeld and Stadtilm to reach the A71 again at Ilmenau. There was just the problem of a few road blocks that forced me to make a few detours, nullifying most of the shortcut. A while later I left the A71 again at the Oberhof exit, driving through the northern part of Zella-Mehlis until I reached the train station which had a very convenient and free of charge parking lot.

When I got out of the car, a train arrived. Among the people getting off I noticed somebody with a large white beard. I immediately thought of GeorgDerReisende but rejected that possibility because it was much too early for hash o'clock. I used the tunnel to platform 5 and went to the end of the platform. The GPS at first showed the spot one meter beyond the guardrail but the spot moved around a bit until I could finally find it on the platform. While taking pictures I noticed the white-bearded guy from before coming to the same platform and walking towards me. It was indeed GeorgDerReisende! Hooray! Because we met, it counts as a Saturday meetup even though it wasn't 4 pm. We talked a bit, then we parted ways again, with me driving to the Autobahn and onward to Würzburg.

Zella-Mehlis train station
almost there on platform 5
GPS
panorama
GeorgDerReisende approaching
it's a Meet-Up!

Achievements

GeorgDerReisende earned the xkcd Quinquaginturion achievement

by attending 53 Saturday meetups.

Danatar earned the xkcd Quadraginturion achievement

by attending 40 Saturday meetups.

GeorgDerReisende and Danatar earned the Meet-up achievement

by meeting each other at the (50, 10) geohash on 2019-05-04.

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 == Location ==
-railway station Zella-Mehlis, platform 3, southern end
+railway station Zella-Mehlis, southern end of platform 5
 == Participants ==
-[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]]
+* [[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]]
+* [[User:Danatar|Danatar]]
 == Plans ==
+=== GeorgDerReisende ===
 Traveling by train, standing at the hash at hash o'clock, taking the train at 16:05 for home.
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
-== Tracklog ==
+=== GeorgDerReisende ===
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
+I left home at 10:30 and with a bus and three trains I traveled to Zella-Mehlis. I arrived there at 14:19. I found out, that the hash was on platform 5. But it was an easy hash and I wanted to go to the hash at hash o'clock, so I tried to leave the place. But I wanted to take a first photo. But a man walked into the direction of the hash and he made some strange gestures. And I thought, this behaviour looks like a dancing geohasher. And I walked to the hash and I met [[User:Danatar|Danatar]]. After the meetup I made a walk to Zella-Mehlis and I walked back to the train station. At hash o'clock I waited again at the hash. But nobody else arrived. At 16:05 I took the train and traveled home.
-== Photos ==
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+-05-04 50 10 GeorgDerReisende 6862.jpg | the hash at platform 5
+-05-04 50 10 GeorgDerReisende 6871.jpg | a stranger at the hash
+-05-04 50 10 GeorgDerReisende 6872.jpg | [[User:Danatar|Danatar]] is dancing
+-05-04 50 10 GeorgDerReisende 6873.jpg | the site of hash
+-05-04 50 10 GeorgDerReisende 6970.jpg | GeorgDerReisende at the hash at hash o'clock
+</gallery>
+=== Danatar ===
+I was on my way from Dresden to Würzburg for a round birthday party and as usual I looked up possible hashpoints along the way. When I noticed this one directly at the Zella-Mehlis train station I decided to visit it. This meant using the route along the A4/A71 via Jena and Suhl, which is a bit longer than my usual route along the A72 via Hof. In order to not drive too many additional kilometers I decided to trade time for distance and left the A4 at the Apolda exit. From there I drove along country roads through Bad Berka, Kranichfeld and Stadtilm to reach the A71 again at Ilmenau. There was just the problem of a few road blocks that forced me to make a few detours, nullifying most of the shortcut. A while later I left the A71 again at the Oberhof exit, driving through the northern part of Zella-Mehlis until I reached the train station which had a very convenient and free of charge parking lot.
+When I got out of the car, a train arrived. Among the people getting off I noticed somebody with a large white beard. I immediately thought of GeorgDerReisende but rejected that possibility because it was much too early for hash o'clock. I used the tunnel to platform 5 and went to the end of the platform. The GPS at first showed the spot one meter beyond the guardrail but the spot moved around a bit until I could finally find it on the platform. While taking pictures I noticed the white-bearded guy from before coming to the same platform and walking towards me. It was indeed GeorgDerReisende! Hooray! Because we met, it counts as a Saturday meetup even though it wasn't 4 pm. We talked a bit, then we parted ways again, with me driving to the Autobahn and onward to Würzburg.
+<gallery>
+File:2019-05-04_50_10_d_bahnhof.jpg|Zella-Mehlis train station
+File:2019-05-04_50_10_near.jpg|almost there on platform 5
+File:2019-05-04_50_10_gps.jpg|GPS
+File:2019-05-04_50_10_d_pano.jpg|panorama
+File:2019-05-04_50_10_gdr.jpg|GeorgDerReisende approaching
+File:2019-05-04_50_10_meetup.jpg|it's a Meet-Up!
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+{{tracklog | 2019-05-04 50 10-triton.gpx}}
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+{{XKCD Centurion | count = 53 | name = GeorgDerReisende }}
+{{XKCD Centurion | count = 40 | name = Danatar }}
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+{{Meet-up | latitude = 50 | longitude = 10 | date = 2019-05-04 | name = GeorgDerReisende and Danatar | other = each other }}
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