2012-03-03 42 -71

Sat 3 Mar 2012 in 42,-71: 42.3299215, -71.8193385 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Just off a driveway in Worcester, MA.

Participants

User:Evn User:phyzome

Plans

Plan: Drive in a Mini, rack up as many achievements as possible. Play Go.

Expedition

Actual happenings:

We left from User:phyzome's place in Somerville about 2pm. Having forgotten to print out the "All-The-Infos" PDF, we stopped at his office to print it out, then got on the road. Roughly 50 minutes later, we were at Timber, LN, in Holden, MA, Worcester County. After some finagling a couple of GPSs, we were able to determine that the geohash was behind a tree, just inside of someone's property line. Dog barking, we knocked on the door, with no response. A couple of neighbors were fairly creeped out, but seemed to think we were mostly harmless, so we made a snowman, including a carrot-nose supplied by User:phyzome.

We met up with another XKCD reader who was on his first Geohash, shook hands, waited around until a few minutes after 4, then headed out. User:Evn wanted to complete the Squishy achievement, so we headed to Dunkin' Donuts nearby. A 4 point GeoSquishy later (it took them two attempts, and the Coolatta still barely qualified as a slushy) and we were back on the road. Another 50 minutes and User:phyzome was home. Round about 15 more and so was User:Evn.

Good times for User:Evn's geohashing adventure, and we were able to complete a few achievements, including photographic evidence!

Challenge!

Hash in another place named "Worcester" or "Wooster" (e.g. in Ohio) or even "Worchestershire".

Phyzome and Evn issued a challenge for the Tale of Two Hashes achievement by geohashing in a place named Worcester (pronounced "Wooster") from the (42, -71) geohash on 2012-03-03.