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| − | I showed up pre-Target shopping run and parked in the completely unfilled parking lot. The lot and the building were both empty as a desert and quiet as a cemetery. Signs on the building say NATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY which, for the non-Americans reading, is a private for-profit online university (read: scam) whose famously catchy ad jingles often featured on television when I was a kid. Now the building is a 'conference center' except it is ''completely empty'' as you'll see from the photos. I thought there was a ~2% chance I could enter, alas no luck — apparently "night-time, anytime!" from the ad song was not actually true. So I went around the back to get as close as possible to the hash, and oh boy. As of today Minnesota is cold. Not 0 C cold, not 0 F cold, but "health risk to have exposed skin for any real length of time" cold. It's that dang wind. I snapped a photo of the liminal, eerie interior through the windows and hurried back to the car. | + | I showed up pre-Target shopping run and parked in the completely unfilled parking lot. The lot and the building were both empty as a desert and quiet as a cemetery. Signs on the building say NATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY which, for the non-Americans reading this, is a private for-profit online university (read: scam) whose famously catchy ad jingles often featured on television when I was a kid. Now the building is a 'conference center' except it is ''completely empty'' as you'll see from the photos. I thought there was a ~2% chance I could enter, alas no luck — apparently "night-time, anytime!" from the ad song was not actually true. So I went around the back to get as close as possible to the hash, and oh boy. As of today Minnesota is cold. Not 0 C cold, not 0 F cold, but "health risk to have exposed skin for any real length of time" cold. It's that dang wind. I snapped a photo of the liminal, eerie interior through the windows and hurried back to the car. I didn't reach the coordinates, but after a week and a half of my car being in the shop, it felt good to be out and geohashing again. |
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| + | Image:NAU exterior.jpg | For Lease, but I wasn't going to buy it just to reach the hash. | ||
| + | Image:NAU interior.jpg | Deeply creepy, also super cold where I was. | ||
| + | Image:NAU proof.PNG | Almost... | ||
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| − | {{No trespassing | latitude = 45 | longitude = -93 | date = 2024-12-11 | name = Kyrkazakh | image = | distance = | + | {{No trespassing | latitude = 45 | longitude = -93 | date = 2024-12-11 | name = Kyrkazakh | image = NAU exterior.jpg | distance = 14 meters}} |
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Latest revision as of 04:16, 12 December 2024
| Wed 11 Dec 2024 in Minneapolis NW: 45.0096438, -93.1626619 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Inside a defunct National American University building in Roseville, MN.
Participants
Plans
Kyrkazakh (talk): Right near a Target I planned to shop at, so why not.
Expedition
I showed up pre-Target shopping run and parked in the completely unfilled parking lot. The lot and the building were both empty as a desert and quiet as a cemetery. Signs on the building say NATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY which, for the non-Americans reading this, is a private for-profit online university (read: scam) whose famously catchy ad jingles often featured on television when I was a kid. Now the building is a 'conference center' except it is completely empty as you'll see from the photos. I thought there was a ~2% chance I could enter, alas no luck — apparently "night-time, anytime!" from the ad song was not actually true. So I went around the back to get as close as possible to the hash, and oh boy. As of today Minnesota is cold. Not 0 C cold, not 0 F cold, but "health risk to have exposed skin for any real length of time" cold. It's that dang wind. I snapped a photo of the liminal, eerie interior through the windows and hurried back to the car. I didn't reach the coordinates, but after a week and a half of my car being in the shop, it felt good to be out and geohashing again.
Photos
For Lease, but I wasn't going to buy it just to reach the hash.
Deeply creepy, also super cold where I was.
Almost...
Achievements
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Kyrkazakh earned the No trespassing consolation prize
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