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Since it was actually on the road, and dark, and cold, I thought it best to go for (frozen) Speed Racer.  Unfortunately my cell phone and I were not up to the photography task, so I have no usable pics to show.  I drove westbound along Richmond St, and tried to shoot pictures of two 30-mph speed limit signs as I went along (white blurry rectangle), one shot of the graveyard (black), one of the speedometer showing 31 mph as I went by (unintelligible sea-anemone impression from lit dial and car vibration), and one shot of the street sign at the nearby intersection with Walker Ave(vague green blurry rectangle).  So it's a total loss in the expedition-photos department.
 
Since it was actually on the road, and dark, and cold, I thought it best to go for (frozen) Speed Racer.  Unfortunately my cell phone and I were not up to the photography task, so I have no usable pics to show.  I drove westbound along Richmond St, and tried to shoot pictures of two 30-mph speed limit signs as I went along (white blurry rectangle), one shot of the graveyard (black), one of the speedometer showing 31 mph as I went by (unintelligible sea-anemone impression from lit dial and car vibration), and one shot of the street sign at the nearby intersection with Walker Ave(vague green blurry rectangle).  So it's a total loss in the expedition-photos department.
  
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Image:2014-01-21_42_-85_1.jpg| Speed limit sign, clearly reading 30 mph.
 
Image:2014-01-21_42_-85_1.jpg| Speed limit sign, clearly reading 30 mph.
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Image:2014-01-21_42_-85_5.jpg| Shot of speedometer going past hashpoint, clinching Speed Racer.
 
Image:2014-01-21_42_-85_3.jpg| Street sign at the corner of Richmond St. and Walker Ave, just west of hashpoint. Incontrovertible evidence that I got to the right place.
 
Image:2014-01-21_42_-85_3.jpg| Street sign at the corner of Richmond St. and Walker Ave, just west of hashpoint. Incontrovertible evidence that I got to the right place.
Image:2014-01-21_42_-85_5.jpg| Shot of speedometer going past hashpoint, clinching Speed Racer.
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Image:2014-01-21_42_-85_temps.jpg| Temperature record from nearby station KMIGRAND34, showing -11 °C at 6 pm. Yes, it's sad that the best pic I have was cropped from a Weather Underground screenshot.
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Revision as of 02:40, 22 January 2014


Tue 21 Jan 2014 in 42,-85:
42.9931618, -85.7141845
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Location

North (westbound) side of Richmond St. by Holy Cross Cemetery, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Participants

Expedition

Like 2014-01-02 42 -85, too easy not to go for: actually on a road, close to where the bus drops me during my commute home. This is just a little west of our first Michigan hash at 2013-08-17 42 -85.

Since it was actually on the road, and dark, and cold, I thought it best to go for (frozen) Speed Racer. Unfortunately my cell phone and I were not up to the photography task, so I have no usable pics to show. I drove westbound along Richmond St, and tried to shoot pictures of two 30-mph speed limit signs as I went along (white blurry rectangle), one shot of the graveyard (black), one of the speedometer showing 31 mph as I went by (unintelligible sea-anemone impression from lit dial and car vibration), and one shot of the street sign at the nearby intersection with Walker Ave(vague green blurry rectangle). So it's a total loss in the expedition-photos department.

Photos

Achievements

Landgeohash.png
George earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (42, -85) geohash on 2014-01-21.
Compass.jpg
George earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (42, -85) geohash on 2014-01-21.
Frozen.png
George earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (42, -85) geohash on 2014-01-21 while the temperature was -11 °C.

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