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Planning the Perfect Crime Geohash

I'll be travelling down the Parkway Saturday, so I'll get a Easy Geohash, Virgin Graticule and Speed Racer Achievement. Unfortunately, the geohash is in the creek, a quarter mile from the road, so I have to choose between Speed Racer, and a good clear shot of the Patcong Creek sign on the Parkway bridge. I'm choosing to get Speed Racer, since I don't have a boat anyway, so I'll take a picture of the speedometer and the Exit 30 sign. I will also attempt a picture of the Patcong Creek sign, but I don't expect it to be legible.

Execution

Once we were in the area, we decided that we were better off getting good photographs of the location than aiming for a Speed Racer, especially since the actual point was not on the road. So Plan B (tm) was to stop in the Patcong Creek bridge, take some pictures, the continue on our vacation. Unfortunately, there was no shoulder on the bridge. By the time I realized this, I was screeching to a halt a foot away from the guardrail, with a number of other drivers wondering why the heck I was stopping on the highway.

We took pictures of the spot, picked up a token of our visit (as we did last time), and continued our vacation.

Pictures to come.

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 I'll be travelling down the Parkway Saturday, so I'll get a [[Easy Geohash]], [[Virgin Graticule]] and [[Speed Racer Achievement]].  Unfortunately, the geohash is in the creek, a quarter mile from the road, so I have to choose between Speed Racer, and a good clear shot of the Patcong Creek sign on the Parkway bridge.  I'm choosing to get Speed Racer, since I don't have a boat anyway, so I'll take a picture of the speedometer and the Exit 30 sign.  I will also attempt a picture of the Patcong Creek sign, but I don't expect it to be legible.
+== Execution ==
+Once we were in the area, we decided that we were better off getting good photographs of the location than aiming for a Speed Racer, especially since the actual point was not on the road.  So Plan B (tm) was to stop in the Patcong Creek bridge, take some pictures, the continue on our vacation.  Unfortunately, there was no shoulder on the bridge.  By the time I realized this, I was screeching to a halt a foot away from the guardrail, with a number of other drivers wondering why the heck I was stopping on the highway.
+We took pictures of the spot, picked up a token of our visit ([[2008-06-28 40 -74|as we did last time]]), and continued our vacation.
+''Pictures to come.''
 [[Category:Expedition Planning]]


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