2012-05-24 52 5

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Thu 24 May 2012 in 52,5: 52.0504777, 5.1151652 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a bush next to a road on a Nieuwegein business park.

Participants

• Mennoowh
• Wijnland
• Tchakkazulu

Plans

Mennoowh sure as hell will try to go there. Probably before work in the morning. Wijnland also mentioned something about going there around 17h.

I just landed from Vancouver! Will be at the coordinates around 1630 Wijnland 04:35, 24 May 2012 (EDT)

Tchakkazulu is looking up how to get there by public transit, and will try to be there around 16:30 as well.

elwingelfje tried to motivate her brother (who lives in Utrecht) to go there, but I don't think he did it after all.

Expedition

Mennoowh's report

Coordinates reached, more report soon (including an almost-failed Tron achievement)!

Wijnlands Report

I travelled 128 degrees of longitude to catch this geohash! (but have to admit the trip was already planned, do I still qualify for the borderhash then?) Left Vancouver at 1600PDT to arrive in the Netherlands at 1030CET. I had arranged to have a bike ready in Utrecht, but there were some problems there so in the en I went to the coordinates with a borrowed car. It was close to my route, as I had to be in Lunetten anyways. I arrived at 1630 took some pictures (will be posted as soon as i find a camera cable\cardreader somewhere) and I found an envelope plus letter that Mennoowh left for me. the location was somewat boring in a hedge in front of the Hanos (horeca wholesale shop) and I explained to one of their truck divers what i was dooing because he had seen some ohter sketchy person wondering around that morning.

Hurrah, a new graticule for me in a new country, maybe I will try to catch some more hashed in the upcomin weeks, aound NL, or in CH (zurich) where I will also be for a while.

Tchakkazulu's Report

The bus I was planning to take, and the bit of walking after, would see me at the hash point at :29. Right in time to meet Wijnland! Sadly, I got delayed. As a result, I arrived at :45 instead. I walked around the area for a while, hoping to maybe see someone with a GPSr, or someone who'd recognize my GPSr for what it is, but no such luck.

Drained of energy by the heat, and without proof of actually having been there, I waited for a bus back home.

Achievements

Mennoowh earned the Tron achievement by reaching and returning from the (51, 4) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2012-05-25.

Wijnland earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Canada-Netherlands border on 2012-05-24 to reach the (52, 5) geohash.