Difference between revisions of "2015-11-24 -12 130"

Revision as of 22:03, 24 November 2015

Location

On University Avenue, next to the Palmerston Golf Course

Participants

Felix Dance

Expedition

I've been riding to work recently - or, more exactly, riding from Darwin, where I live, to Palmerston, where I don't live, nor work, but where I occasionally take the bus to the construction site at which I spend a sizable chunk of my waking life.

However, today I decided to enjoy the sleep-in and take the bus from town. This proved to be an annoying mistake, as, upon arriving at work, I discovered the geohash for that day to be very close to where I would have parked my bike in Palmerston. Knowing I couldn't walk away from such a hash, so to speak, I took the bus back to Darwin at the end of the day, rode my bike home, changed, and rode a different bike back out to Palmerston an hour away.

Riding 50% faster than my usual commute speed through a combination of not having panniers, riding a lighter road bike and being somewhat freer of the draining existential exhaustion often experienced during work commutes, I quickly descended upon the hash-locale, the sun setting on me as though spiting my endeavour in pique.

Spending a seemingly interminable period friggin' around with the newly updated hash-app and associated mechana to suck my camera's photos through the wifi onto my phone, have them rotated, appended with coordinates, described and installed onto the self-creating wiki page, all the while being consumed by a golf-course swamp's worth of mosquito feeding-frenzy denizens, I had achieved the broad aims of my expedition and mounted my steel steed to bring myself home - pausing only briefly to resupply bodily energy stocks with a kebab and sarsaparilla from a charming Berrimer-based eatery. Otherwise, the ride was uneventful.

Here is the route of my trip.

Photos

Straight-forward hash in Palmerston @-12.4802,130.9749
Sunset in Palmerston @-12.4802,130.9749
GPS proof @-12.4802,130.9749
Felix riding to the hash @-12.4802,130.9749
Sunset scenery on the way to the hash @-12.4802,130.9749
Celebratory kebab and sarsaparilla on the ride home. @-12.4323,130.9230

Achievements

Felix Dance earned the Bicycle geohash achievement

by cycling 43 kms to and from the (-12, 130) geohash on 2015-11-24.

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 == Location ==
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+On University Avenue, next to the Palmerston Golf Course
 == Participants ==
+*[[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]]
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-== Plans ==
+== Expedition ==
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+I've been riding to work recently - or, more exactly, riding from Darwin, where I live, to Palmerston, where I don't live, nor work, but where I occasionally take the bus to the construction site at which I spend a sizable chunk of my waking life.
+However, today I decided to enjoy the sleep-in and take the bus from town.  This proved to be an annoying mistake, as, upon arriving at work, I discovered the geohash for that day to be very close to where I would have parked my bike in Palmerston.  Knowing I couldn't walk away from such a hash, so to speak, I took the bus back to Darwin at the end of the day, rode my bike home, changed, and rode a different bike back out to Palmerston an hour away.
+Riding 50% faster than my usual commute speed through a combination of not having panniers, riding a lighter road bike and being somewhat freer of the draining existential exhaustion often experienced during work commutes, I quickly descended upon the hash-locale, the sun setting on me as though spiting my endeavour in pique.
-== Expedition ==
+Spending a seemingly interminable period friggin' around with the newly updated hash-app and associated mechana to suck my camera's photos through the wifi onto my phone, have them rotated, appended with coordinates, described and installed onto the self-creating wiki page, all the while being consumed by a golf-course swamp's worth of mosquito feeding-frenzy denizens, I had achieved the broad aims of my expedition and mounted my steel steed to bring myself home - pausing only briefly to resupply bodily energy stocks with a kebab and sarsaparilla from a charming Berrimer-based eatery.  Otherwise, the ride was uneventful.
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
-== Tracklog ==
+[https://goo.gl/maps/aNP8Jb1SAMz Here] is the route of my trip.
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 == Photos ==
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 == Achievements ==
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+| latitude = -12
+| longitude = 130
+| date = 2015-11-24
+| name = Felix Dance
+| distance =  43 kms
+| bothways = TRUE
+| image = 2015-11-24_-12_130_Felix Dance_1448357578431.jpg
+}}
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