User:DanQ

43 / m / 51,-1

🔑	This user owns the PGP key 3218a6ac.

Dan Q

Based near Oxford; in the Swindon, UK graticule.

Expeditions

• Wednesday 19 February 2014 - successful expedition by bike (57.75 mile round trip) to a the geohash in the nearby London West graticule, to commemorate the second anniversary of his father's death.
• Monday 21 April 2014 - successful expedition on foot (1.2 mile round trip, including finding some nearby geohashes) to a hashpoint just 300 metres from his house, along with his partner Ruth and her baby Annabel.
• Saturday 12 July 2014 - successful expedition by car and foot to a geohash that was broadly-speaking sort-of between his house and an interview he'd just been to
• Saturday 4 August 2018 - successful expedition by bike at midnight to a hashpoint about 2 miles from his house
• Tuesday 7 August 2018 - successful 6.5km expedition by bike (and foot at the very end) to a field South of Oxford after his afternoon's work meeting got cancelled
• Wednesday 22 August 2018 - successful expedition to East Adderbury to a hashpoint in a field of cows
• Thursday 23 August 2018 - cancelled expedition after the hashpoint location was revealed to be entirely in the wrong direction for my intended day's travel
• Thursday 23 August 2018 - successful expedition to replace the cancelled one; this time a hashpoint South one graticule, deep in a forest
• Tuesday 16 October 2018 - successful expedition to a roadside near a windfarm while en route to an exam
• Friday 9 November 2018 - successful expedition to the middle of a field in Somerset as a diversion from a journey from Oxford to Penzance (for Challenge Robin II)
• Tuesday 8 January 2019 - successful expedition to the A34 on the way to work to earn a Birthday Achievement (and to hide a geocache!)

Achievements

In reverse order of aquisition (i.e. most-recent first):

DanQ earned the Birthday Geohash Achievement by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on his 38th birthday, 2019-01-08.

DanQ achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Swindon, United Kingdom and 4 of the surrounding graticules.

DanQ earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching hash points on 2 consecutive days starting on 2018-08-22.

This user earned the Last man standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2018-08-22.

This user earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2018-08-04 in the middle of the night.

This user earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Ruth (and carrying baby Annabel) to the (51, -1) geohash on 2014-04-21.

This user earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2014-04-21 on foot.

This user earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-02-19.

This user earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 93km to and from the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-02-19.

Elsewhere

Find me online at:

• DanQ.me - blog and stuff; filter to just geohash logs or just geo* logs (i.e. including geocaching etc.)

Contact me via:

• dan@danq.me - good old-fashioned email
• Contact form - sends me an email; sometimes these go to spam and may take a few days to respond to; sorry