2024-02-12 32 35

Mon 12 Feb 2024 in 32,35: 32.5944042, 35.2787732 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a field southwest of Afula.

Participants

• MetricSystemDude
• Yerushalmi

Plans

The previous day, MetricSystemDude and Yerushalmi planned to meet up at this geohash in the morning, despite both of them being unsure if this geohash is accessible. Google Maps' satellite view showed this geohash was on a path in the middle of a field, but as Yerushalmi noted: "One should never assume that dirt paths in satellite photos still exist".

Accessible, or not Accessible? That is the Question

MetricSystemDude, being fired from his job on that day, saw it as an opportunity to go on more expeditions. Moreover, he had the brilliant idea of calling the youth village to the north of the field in which this geohash is located, in order to find out about more information about this geohash's accessibility. He tried calling, but no one picked up the phone. He made note to try again in the morning of the expedition.

Expedition

MetricSystemDude

I woke up in the morning to a message from Yerushalmi, saying that he's gonna attempt getting to this geohash as well. I quickly packed my bag and looked up the route to the closest bus stop to this geohash, from which Yerushalmi and his father kindly picked me up when I got there later.

I did not forget to call the youth center - However, the poor secretary was not prepared to hear about geohashing this early in the morning. I confidently presented myself as a member of Geohashing Israel, and kindly asked her about the field south of the youth center, and whether she thinks it's accessible or not.

She was very confused, and told me:
"I don't know about any fields south of this youth center."

Determined to find out more information, I asked her in the most serious tone I could muster:
"Please, look out of the window to the south, and tell me what you think."

The secretary was flustered by my question, and after a few moments answered:
"I'm sorry, it doesn't work like that. Maybe you should speak with the Afula municipality and they might be able to give you an answer"

I then thanked the secretary and hung up the phone. Being traumatized by past experiences with Israeli automatic call routing systems and municipality workers' unfriendliness, I left home and headed towards the station in Karmiel, from which I was supposed to take bus line 242 to Afula.

Around the time bus line 242 was supposed to arrive, a suspiciously numbered bus approached the station - it had the number 0 on its front display, which in Israel means the bus is currently not on service. As I was looking more closely at the bus, which color seemed to match the color of the supposed bus line 242, and I suspected this could actually be the bus I had to take, despite the number 0 that appeared on the rectangular screen on the its screen. I looked at the bus driver in the eye, which magically made him stop. I asked him if this is bus line 242, to which he responded yes, and briefly explained that the confusion was caused due to a communication error. Fun fact - those errors happen way too often in Israel, so my sixth sense saved me about an hour long wait for the next bus.

Finally, I got on the bus, and about an hour later, got off in Afula.

Yerushalmi

TBA

Photos

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  MetricSystemDude's Stupid Grin^TM

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  The Geohash

Achievements

MetricSystemDude and Yerushalmi earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (32, 35) geohash on 2024-02-12.

MetricSystemDude earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (32, 35) geohash on 2024-02-12 via Superbus.

MetricSystemDude earned the Two to the N achievement by reaching 21 hashpoints on 2024-02-12 and is promoted to Level 1 (Coordinates reached).

MetricSystemDude earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Yerushalmi at the (32, 35) geohash on 2024-02-12.