Difference between revisions of "2010-12-08 -40 175"

Revision as of 11:38, 13 December 2010

Location

State highway 56, Rangiotu, Manawatu-Wanganui

Participants

TunezNZ breezed through

Plans

Tunez was driving down to wellington the same day, this was only a minor diversion off my path so why not do a drive by.

Expedition

Yay! Ok so damn, I need a navigator when I’m driving I know this now. At one of the big spokie roundabouts in the edge of Hamilton I took the wrong exit and end up being forced to go through Hamilton and all the fringe suburbs, eventually get back on track. State highway 4 was such a mess. Roadwork’s every 5mins I actually lost count but I would say 15-18 so it was crazy. Took a wrong turn somewhere figured out why when there a sign saying no fuel for 150km… Gps is off duhh, it's the end of the "continue for 324km" so once sorted again I was off. Get to bulls and a cops sitting behind me so I pulled out the cruise control, 94kmh hehe (essentially 3khm away from the limit). He pulls over and then from a side road comes another one so I’m still like naahh gtfo. It also worked. Get to the turn off and the car beeps 20km of fuel left, oh shit... So get to the hash point do my thing, act like I'm looking for something, and actually found a nifty hat  so score. No reception so gingerly drive towards the next township, get reception, 15km Shannon bp, k car says 10km can we do it so I go, I'm fretting the whole time, like mega time, get there and diggers eating up the forecourt. Noooo, it's gotten to 0km 3 times by here and gone up to 10km at the most so I'm really getting worried now. Sorry son 17km to Levin, Fuuuuuuuuuu. I won’t make it! Ok set Gps k good (so I thought) takes me along the edge of Levin, it's just reading 0km the whole time now... I'm wtfing at my phone. Stop at this house and for help on where to go, my god you know the Deep South Americans in movies, well these people were THEM! 4 kids all had mullets the mother and father too. Oh man. So I'm running on fumes by the time I reach the shell station ay. 60.8L my god... So happy to pay the $117, so damn happy, the rest was uneventful to say the most, in Wellington now all good and well. 11 hours after leaving.

Photos

Achievements

Template:Virgin graticule

TunezNZ earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (-40, 175) geohash on 2010-12-08.

TunezNZ earned the XKCD-100 Honorable Mention Achievement

by voyaging 525 KM to reach the (-40, 175) geohash on 2010-12-08. Alas it was not a Saturday.

TunezNZ earned the Speed racer achievement

by passing through the (-40, 175) geohash on 2010-12-08 at the maximum legal speed.

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 == Participants ==
 <!-- who attended -->
-*[[User:TunezNZ|TunezNZ]] will breeze through
+*[[User:TunezNZ|TunezNZ]] breezed through
 == Plans ==
 <!-- what were the original plans -->
+Tunez was driving down to wellington the same day, this was only a minor diversion off my path so why not do a drive by.
 == Expedition ==
 <!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+Yay! Ok so damn, I need a navigator when I’m driving I know this now. At one of the big spokie roundabouts in the edge of Hamilton I took the wrong exit and end up being forced to go through Hamilton and all the fringe suburbs, eventually get back on track. State highway 4 was such a mess. Roadwork’s every 5mins I actually lost count but I would say 15-18 so it was crazy. Took a wrong turn somewhere figured out why when there a sign saying no fuel for 150km… Gps is off duhh, it's the end of the "continue for 324km" so once sorted again I was off. Get to bulls and a cops sitting behind me so I pulled out the cruise control, 94kmh hehe (essentially 3khm away from the limit). He pulls over and then from a side road comes another one so I’m still like naahh gtfo. It also worked. Get to the turn off and the car beeps 20km of fuel left, oh shit... So get to the hash point do my thing, act like I'm looking for something, and actually found a nifty hat  so score. No reception so gingerly drive towards the next township, get reception, 15km Shannon bp, k car says 10km can we do it so I go, I'm fretting the whole time, like mega time, get there and diggers eating up the forecourt. Noooo, it's gotten to 0km 3 times by here and gone up to 10km at the most so I'm really getting worried now. Sorry son 17km to Levin, Fuuuuuuuuuu. I won’t make it! Ok set Gps k good (so I thought) takes me along the edge of Levin, it's just reading 0km the whole time now... I'm wtfing at my phone. Stop at this house and for help on where to go, my god you know the Deep South Americans in movies, well these people were THEM! 4 kids all had mullets the mother and father too. Oh man. So I'm running on fumes by the time I reach the shell station ay. 60.8L my god... So happy to pay the $117, so damn happy, the rest was uneventful to say the most, in Wellington now all good and well. 11 hours after leaving.
-== Tracklog ==
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 == Photos ==
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+{{Virgin graticule
+| latitude = -40
+| longitude = 175
+| date = 2010-12-08
+| name = TunezNZ
+}}
+{{land geohash
+| latitude = -40
+| longitude = 175
+| date = 2010-12-08
+| name = TunezNZ
+}}
+{{xkcd-100-Honorable-Mention
+| latitude = -40
+| longitude = 175
+| date = 2010-12-08
+| distance = 525 KM
+| name = TunezNZ
+}}
-<!-- =============== USEFUL CATEGORIES FOLLOW ================
+{{Speed racer
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+| latitude = -40
-[[Category:New report]]
+| longitude = 175
+| date = 2010-12-08
+| name = TunezNZ
+}}
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-<!-- If this is a planning page:
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-<!-- An actual expedition:
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--- and one or more of --
+[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
-[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
-[[Category:Expeditions with videos]]
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-[[Category:Not reached - No public access]]  when there is a man-made obstacle between you and the target
-[[Category:Not reached - Technology]]        when you failed get your GPS, car, bike or such to work
-[[Category:Not reached - Did not attempt]]   when you went to an alternate location, or decided early on to abort the expedition.
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