Difference between revisions of "2012-09-25 42 -90"

Latest revision as of 06:16, 13 August 2019

Location

Kennedy Mall parking lot; Dubuque, Iowa

Participants

SwensonJ, wife, and kids

Plans

No plan: just a last-minute stop. It could hardly have been easier.

Expedition

My daughter had gymnastics practice tonight, in the building marked with the green arrow. This is about 26 miles (42 km) from my house. The red arrow marks the hashpoint.

The hashpoint is in the parking lot of the Kennedy Mall, in the lane that takes you from the gymnastics studio to the bookstore that we frequent. We have been this way a lot; my credit card statement shows that we definitely went to the bookstore on 25 July, which was the day of another gymnastics practice. I'm saying this is enough proof to claim the Déjà vu geohash achievement -- but I am unwilling to post the credit card statement online.

There was nothing to this one. We drove through the hashpoint a few times at speeds up to about 25mph (40 km/hr). I can't quite say that that's the legal limit, because this is one of the many parking lots that doesn't have a posted speed limit. Still, it's as close as I've come to the Speed racer achievement, so we'll make a ribbon for it.

Photos

We were going to Dubuque anyway for gymnastics practice.
Date and time, per spec
We're in the parking lot
Imagine that this shows our speedometer: 22 mph in the parking lot!
Then we went to Target to play with the security camera

Achievements

SwensonJ earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (42, -90) geohash on 2012-09-25.

SwensonJ has visited an Easy Geohash

by reaching the (42, -90) geohash on 2012-09-25 without really trying.

SwensonJ earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (42, -90) geohash on 2012-09-25, and previously on 2012-07-25.

Is it true that SwensonJ earned the Speed racer achievement?

In principle, yes.
But it was not a road, but a parking lot, with no posted speed limit; also, you can't read the photo (2012-09-25 42 -90).

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 == Participants ==
-[[User:swensonj|SwensonJ]]
+[[User:swensonj|SwensonJ]], wife, and kids
 == Plans ==
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 == Expedition ==
-Success!  Details soon.
+My daughter had gymnastics practice tonight, in the building marked with the green arrow.  This is about 26 miles (42 km) from my house.  The red arrow marks the hashpoint.
+[[Image:2012-09-25_42_-90_Map.png]]
+The hashpoint is in the parking lot of the Kennedy Mall, in the lane that takes you from the gymnastics studio to the bookstore that we frequent.  We have been this way a lot; my credit card statement shows that we definitely went to the bookstore on 25 July, which was the day of another gymnastics practice.  I'm saying this is enough proof to claim the [[Déjà vu geohash achievement]] -- but I am unwilling to post the credit card statement online.
+There was nothing to this one.  We drove through the hashpoint a few times at speeds up to about 25mph (40 km/hr).  I can't quite say that that's the legal limit, because this is one of the many parking lots that doesn't have a posted speed limit.  Still, it's as close as I've come to the [[Speed racer achievement]], so we'll make a ribbon for it.
 == Photos ==
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 == Achievements ==
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-<!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
+{{land geohash
+    | latitude = 42
+    | longitude = -90
+    | date = 2012-09-25
+    | name = SwensonJ
+    | image = 2012-09-25 42 -90 Grin.jpg
+}}
+{{Easy_geohash
+    | latitude = 42
+    | longitude = -90
+    | date = 2012-09-25
+    | name = SwensonJ
+    | image = 2012-09-25 42 -90 Vault.jpg
+}}
+{{Déjà vu geohash
+    | latitude = 42
+    | longitude = -90
+    | date = 2012-09-25
+    | name = SwensonJ
+    | image = 2012-09-25 42 -90 Vault.jpg
+    | olddate = 2012-07-25
+}}
+{{Radio Yerevan
+ | achievement = Speed racer achievement
+ | detail = it was not a road, but a parking lot, with no posted speed limit; also, you can't read the photo
+    | user = SwensonJ
+    | latitude = 42
+    | longitude = -90
+    | date = 2012-09-25
+    | image = 2012-09-25 42 -90 Fail.jpg
+}}
 [[Category:Expeditions]]
 [[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
 [[Category:Coordinates reached]]
+{{location|US|IA|DU}}


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