2009-04-16 48 -122

Thu 16 Apr 2009 in Bellingham: 48.9657078, -122.8002113 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Today's Bellingham, Washington graticule geohash was on the Birch Point peninsula in Semiahmoo Bay, very close to the Canadian border. It appeared to be just off the end of a side road from Semiahmoo Drive, but trees in the satellite view bloked knowledge of exactly what was there.

Partcipants

In order of being recruited for the mission:

• thepiguy
• Robyn
• Rhonda
• Kristie (who wasn't really a geohasher, see below)

Expedition

Robyn

I put off packing for my mission that might start tomorrow, hastily cleaned my kitchen, grabbed my passport and headed for the border. Vancouver is bisected by the mighty Fraser River, which can be crossed by numerous bridges, a ferry or a tunnel, but the last, while the most convenient way across for my route, is off limits to bicycles. I didn't want to take the time to go around the long way, where I always get stuck in the mud on an unpaved bike route in Surrey, so I rode out to Granville Street to wait for the 351 bus, which would take me to within 30 blocks of the border.

It's always a little suspenseful waiting for a bus with a bicycle. The buses have bike racks, but each bus can take only two bikes, so if two other people have decided to take bikes on the bus that day, you're out of luck. The 601 came with an empty bike rack and I wondered if I should get on it instead, and go to the Ladner Exchange. Fortunately the 351 arrived with only one bike on it, so I didn't have to figure that out. And the one bike was Rhonda's, so all was well.

All

don't forget ...

• pi collapsing in the park
• hidden pedestrian entrance
• adventure club
• road circling back to the geohash after appearing to pass it
• pinecones
• meople
• Kristie
• hashcard
• Mexican food
• the guy five hundred metres from the border who thought Vancouver was too far to ride
• Detour to Canada
• clearing at the car lane