Difference between revisions of "2012-03-21 42 -72"

Latest revision as of 12:42, 21 April 2022

Location

The coordinates fall on some farmland in Hatfield, MA, near the Connecticut River.

Participants

Todd

Plans

Todd planned to bike to there, as it was only about five miles away.

Expedition

Todd's Ride

I left home a little bit later than I should have to leave enough time to get to this and still pick up the kids when I was supposed to. This lead to the excruciating coming to terms with being very nearby a certain victory without enough time to get to it. Very disappointing. I did manage to pick up some groceries on the bike ride back though, but this only took about ten minutes, still not enough time that I could have used it get to the geohash.

Oddly, as I made a turn from the main road to a neighborhood, I'd just passed a man running, and when I stopped to check my directions on my GPS, I found that he'd taken the same turn and gotten ahead of me again. Once again, I went the wrong way and stopped, and after backtracking found that, not only had the runner gotten ahead of me again, but he'd gone off the neighborhood road onto a rough dirt road which happened to be the way I was going. When I finally faced up to having to turn around, I thought that he must be going after the geohash, but there is no sign of any posting about it.

Tracklog

Google Map

Achievements

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