User:Rhonda

Hi. My name is Rhonda, and I like adventure. Robyn thinks I am at least as insane as she is, possibly due to my first ever geohash being a (planned) 4 hour kayak expedition.

Geohashes attempted (41/56)

• #41: 2010-11-07 25 -80 (Florida Everglades): Speed racer in the middle of the road in the everglades with Million zillion.
• 2010-11-06 26 -80 (Boca Raton, FL): in front of a house in a gated community with a security guard, with Million zillion.
• #40: 2010-10-28 26 -80 (Fort Lauderdale, FL): On the train tracks with Million zillion.
• #39: 2010-10-09 50 -120 (Tunkwa Lake, BC): Just off a dirt road not much farther from highway 1. 2nd in a multihash.
• #38: 2010-10-09 50 -119 (Pritchard, BC): Just off a dirt road not far from highway 1, with Xore, Mom, and Dad.
• 2010-08-29 38 -77 (CIA facility, VA): Very large fences around a hashpoint in the parking lot.

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• #37: 2010-07-15 39 -76 (Springettsbury, PA): An overgrown field just off the road, a 2.5 mile bike ride from my temporary lodgings.
• #36: 2010-07-11 40 -77 (Carlisle, PA): Into the underbrush next to a golf course.
• #35: 2010-07-04 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Train station geohash with many people at different times.
• #34: 2010-07-01 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Bicycle geohash and picnic with a group of 8.
• #33: 2010-06-08 35 -80 (NC/SC border): Easy hike through light underbrush with Art.
• #32: 2010-06-05 35 -81 (Lincolnton, NC): Roadside hash on my way to explore the appalachians.
• 2010-05-22 49 -123 (Sechelt, BC): Beach party mouseover day with a group of 10!
• 2010-05-21 49 -122 (Mission, BC): Geohashing day night bushwhacking with a group of 11!
• #31: 2010-05-09 49 -123 (West Vancouver, BC): School hash with Xore and thepiguy
• #30: 2010-05-08 49 -123 (Richmond, BC): Parking lot hash with Xore, thepiguy, and MylSh

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• 2010-04-15 49 -123 (North Vancouver, BC): That's not a lake, that's our drinking water! Poor research with Xore and Wade
• #29: 2010-03-08 45 -122 (Vancouver, WA): under some trees on the edge of a school field with aperfectring and Jiml.
• #28: 2009-11-16 44 -92 (Kenyon, MN): in the middle of a country highway with Trane.
• #27: 2009-11-14 44 -92 (Rochester, MN): golfing (badly) my way to a point on the 13th hole with Trane.
• 2009-11-08 44 -92 (St. Paul SE, MN): in a park that wasn't a park near the Mississippi River, thwarted by fences and a hunting club.
• #26: 2009-09-29 50 -119 (Armstrong, BC): on the shoulder of a country road near Armstrong.
• #25: 2009-09-27 50 -120 (Kamloops, BC): a short hike after a long drive through a maze of logging roads with Mom.
• 2009-09-12 49 -122 (Golden Ears Park, BC): a swim hash thwarted by crazy seadoos with Xore.
• #24: 2009-09-07 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): kayaking 4km into the Georgia Strait with Xore.
• #23: 2009-09-01 49 -123 (Paradise River, BC): bushwhacking in the dark in an indian reserve with Xore.

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• @ 2009-08-30 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): playing tag with Xore and Wade and the Tag! You're it! crew.
• #22: 2009-07-31 49 -123 (Burnaby, BC): empty lot transit hash with Xore and plypkie
• #21: 2009-07-28 49 -122 (Annacis Island, BC): parking lot transit hash with Xore and PhilB
• 2009-07-14 49 -122 (Buntzen Lake, BC): ran out of time on the way to the top of a mountain, with Robyn and Xore.
• 2009-07-12 49 -122 (Langley, BC): 4 metres on the other side of a tall fence, with Xore
• #20: 2009-07-11 49 -123 (West Vancouver, BC): kayak hash into the shipping lanes off Ambleside Park with Xore, Robyn and Wade, and plypkie, yangman, and Elbie.
• #19: 2009-07-10 49 -123 (North Vancouver, BC): down a cliff with Robyn after meeting Flag guy coming back from his expedition.
• #18: 2009-07-05 49 -125 (Courtenay, BC): virgin graticule with Elbie, Xore, and Xore's sister and brother-in-law.
• #17: 2009-06-19 50 -121 (Cache Creek, BC): my first solo geohash.
• #16: 2009-06-14 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): ambassador geohash in a Surrey backyard with Xore, Elbie, SueB, yangman, and plypkie.

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• @ 2009-06-12 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Watched Elbie give a talk about geohashing to some UBC Computer Science grad students with Xore and yangman.
• #15: 2009-06-06 51 -121 (100 Mile House, BC): short easy hike with Mom.
• #14: 2009-06-03 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): transit tree twister hash with Elbie, Ray, Stathi, and Xore.
• @ 2009-05-23 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Mouse Over Day celebration on the cruise ship dock at Canada Place, with Robyn, Wade, Xore, SueB, Elbie, Simon, and of course my mom.
• #13: 2009-05-21 48 -123 (Saltspring Island, BC): Geohashing Day celebration with Xore, Elbie, Robyn, and Wade, with cake and twister.
• #12: 2009-05-18 50 -120 (Kamloops, BC): sewage plant hash with Mom.
• #11: 2009-05-12 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): transit kayak hash with Robyn.
• #10: 2009-05-10 50 -120 (Kamloops, BC): logging road consecutive geohash with my parents and Robyn.
• #9: 2009-05-09 50 -119 (Vernon, BC): missing the perfect road and hiking for a consecutive geohash with Robyn and Juventas.
• 2009-05-08 49 -119 (Kelowna, BC): aborted due to darkness and potholes at the highway turnoff.

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• #8: 2009-05-08 49 -120 (Princeton, BC): hiking up from a provincial campsite with Robyn and Juventas.
• #7: 2009-05-03 48 -122 (Laurel, WA): bicycle border transit consecutive geohash with Robyn.
• #6: 2009-05-02 48 -122 (Silver Lake Park, WA): transit bicycle border camping geohash with Robyn.
• 2009-04-28 49 -122 (Coquitlam, BC): Bicycle no trespassing geohash with Robyn, SueB, and yangman.
• #5: 2009-04-25 49 -123 (Gambier Island, BC): clifftop picnic hash in the sun with Robyn and Wade.
• 2009-04-23 48 -122 (Orcas Island, WA): Border, ferry, bicycle, camping... no trespassing geohash with Robyn.
• #4: 2009-04-22 49 -122 (Langley, BC): via public transit. Met Robyn and played hopscotch.
• #3: 2009-04-16 48 -122 (Semiahmoo Bay, WA): via transit and bike. Met Robyn on the bus and thepiguy at the Peace Arch at 1PM, and rode there together.
• #2: 2009-04-13 49 -122 (Langley, BC): via public transit. Met Robyn at the hashpoint about 4pm.
• #1: 2009-04-08 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): - 5 1/2 hours in an inflatable kayak I bought that morning. Success with Robyn!

Upcoming

• Scout the bridge access bike route from both sides and for all arrival and departure directions for the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge - will need to know this if I want to do a pure bicycle geohash that isn't best accessed via downtown or on the north shore.
• Work trip to Florida for 4 weeks.

Goals

• My origin hash spot looks so easy to access, I'm going to go for it next time I visit my parents (with time to spare in the trip up or back). It's about 500m (straight line) from highway 5, and google maps shows what appears to be a logging road that passes within 20m or less of the spot.
• More bike hashing. Or walk hashing. Or even bus hashing. This car thing is faster, but human-powered is more fun. (Although I wouldn't turn down an airhash just because it isn't human powered.)

Personal firsts

Things that I did for the first time in my life while or because of geohashing.

• Kayaked into 17kts wind and whitecaps in open water.
• Rode a bike across an international border.
• Went to the US on a lark. (All other trips were planned in advance.)
• Bicycle camping.
• Carried a kayak on a city bus.
• Bushwhacked my way down a cliff.
• Went golfing.

Geohashers met

• air384 on 2010-07-01 at a street corner picnic.
• aperfectring on 2010-03-08 when he picked me up in his car.
• Dale on 2010-07-04 standing in a parking lot.
• Elbie on 2009-05-21 picked up on a street corner.
• Flag guy on 2009-07-10 300m from the hash point.
• HollyB on 2010-07-04 standing in a parking lot.
• Jiml on 2010-03-08 when he walked into my hotel following his GPS.
• Juventas on 2009-05-08 at the Stemwinder campsite entrance.
• MylSh on 2010-05-08 in a parking lot.
• PhilB on 2009-07-28 chasing my bus on his harley.
• plypkie on 2009-06-14 at the hashpoint driveway.
• Ramblingwreck on 2010-06-08 between parking lot and forest.
• Ray on 2009-06-03 in a tree.
• Rhonda's mom when I convinced her to come geohashing on 2009-05-10 - mother's day
• Robyn on 2009-04-08 inflating a kayak at Porteau Cove.
• srs0
• SueB on 2009-04-28 in an empty driveway (but really I knew her before).
• thepiguy on 2009-04-16 falling off his bike at the Peace Arch.
• Trane on 2009-11-14 in a parking lot on the way to golf.
• Wade on 2009-04-25 at the water taxi dock.
• Xore on 2009-05-21 picked up on a street corner (but really I knew him before).
• yangman on 2009-04-28 in an empty driveway.

Other pages

• POSTED: list of my no trespassing geohashes for the POSTED achievement.
• Cycling: list of my bicycle trip distances.
• xkcd Centurion: list of Saturday meetups attended.
• BC Regional Districts project: Graticule maps of BC's Regional Districts, for a more feasible regional geohash award in BC.

Ribbons earned

I'm only listing the first time I get a given ribbon. Unless I find it amusing to include again.

Achievement ribbons

Rhonda earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (49, -123) geohash on 2010-07-01.

Rhonda earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement by cleaning up the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-07-11.

Rhonda earned the Hobbit Achievement by bearing a ring and baring her feet to and from the (50, -121) geohash on 2009-06-19.

Rhonda earned the Circus Geohash Achievement by juggling at the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-06-03.

Rhonda earned the 2009 Mouse Over Day achievement by organizing an official alternate meetup in the (49, -123) graticule on the Saturday following May 21st 2009.

Rhonda earned the Picnic achievement by eating cake at the (48, -123) geohash on 2009-05-21.

Rhonda, Robyn, Elbie, Xore, and Wade earned the Phonebooth stuffing achievement by helping stuff a phonebooth near the (48, -123) geohash on 2009-05-21.

Rhonda earned the Twister Geohash Achievement by playing Twister at the (48, -123) geohash on 2009-05-21.

Rhonda earned the 2009 Geohashing Day achievement by celebrating in the (48, -123) graticule on May 21st 2009.

Rhonda earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging her dad to the (50, -120) geohash on 2009-05-10.

Rhonda earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 3 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-05-08.

Rhonda earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-05-02.

Rhonda earned the Police Geohash Achievement by being questioned by Homeland Security Border Patrol while attempting the (48, -122) geohash on 2009-05-02.

Rhonda earned the Camping geohash achievement by camping in a tent 937m the (48, -122) geohash on 2009-05-02, from 15:30 to 8:30.

Rhonda earned the Puppet Master Geohash achievement by manipulating someone to reach the (50, -120) geohash on 2009-04-27.

Rhonda earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Canada-USA border on 2009-04-16 to reach the (48, -122) geohash.

Rhonda earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting thepiguy at the (48, -122) geohash on 2009-04-16.

Rhonda earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, -122) geohash on 2009-04-13 via translink.

Rhonda earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, -122) geohash on 2009-04-13.

Rhonda earned the Water geohash achievement by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-04-08 by inflatable kayak.

Upgradeable ribbons

Rhonda achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Vancouver, British Columbia and 3 of the surrounding graticules.

Rhonda achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Kamloops, British Columbia and 4 of the surrounding graticules.

Virgin graticules

Gratuitous Ribbons

Robyn & Rhonda earned the Double Mother Geohash Ribbon by visiting both their mothers, in different graticules, on Mothers' Day, before reaching the (50, -120) geohash on 2009-05-10.

Rhonda earned the stinky geohash ribbon by attending a geohash located between the pulp mill, sewage treatment plant, and city dump at the (50, -120) geohash on 2009-05-18.

Rhonda earned the monkey games achievement by climbing a tree directly on the hashpoint then playing games in it at the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-06-03.

Rhonda and Rhonda's mom earned the maze navigator achievement by successfully navigating a route through a maze of unmarked unpaved roads on the way to the (50, -120) geohash on 2009-09-27.

Rhonda, aperfectring, and jiml earned the Narnia achievement by finding a single lamp post in a forest at the hash point at the (45, -122) geohash on 2010-03-08.

7 Canadians and 1 american earned the National Day Geohash by successfully reaching the geohash coordinates on Canada's national day at the (49, -123) geohash on 2010-07-01.

Consolation Prizes

Rhonda earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (49, -122) geohash on 2009-04-28.

Rhonda earned the Prize poultry Consolation Prize by chickening out on the (49, -122) geohash on 2009-09-12.

Rhonda earned the Train wreck consolation prize by failing to reach the (49, -123) geohash on 2010-05-22 because of an inflatable kayak that wouldn't stay that way.