Attempted expeditions: 19
Successful expeditions: 18
Failure: no trespassing: 1
Successful retrohashes: 3
Successful puppet master hashes: 1
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Identification
This user is James Swenson, a mathematician from Platteville, Wisconsin, USA.
My home graticule is Dubuque, Iowa. Its hashpoint for 2024-11-28
is (42.6199548, -90.0330538) -- see peeron map or Small Hash Inquiry Tool.
Today's locations of interest
Expeditions
See expeditions listed by county!
Attempted geohashes
2013-05-20 42 -90, Circle Road north of Lancaster, Wisconsin: success!
2013-05-11 42 -91, Timberlane Road north of 3rd Avenue, Guttenberg, Iowa: success!
2013-05-04 43 -89, parking lot, 1221 John Q Hammons Drive, Madison, Wisconsin: success!
2013-04-21 42 -90, Red School Road, south of Elk Grove, Wisconsin: success!
2013-04-14 42 -90, along NW Arterial near John F. Kennedy Road, Dubuque, Iowa: successful Puppet Master Geohash!
2013-01-23 42 -90, Pine Grove Road, northwest of Platteville, Wisconsin: success!
2013-01-06 42 -90, North Road, north of Galena, Illinois: success!
2013-01-05 42 -90, off County Road N, east of Beetown, Wisconsin: success!
2012-12-28 44 -93, Bluestem Avenue, Shakopee, Minnesota: success!
2012-12-26 45 -92, on Elbow Lake Road, south of Siren, Wisconsin: success!
2012-12-08 42 -90, on Laird Lane, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, north of Benton: success!
2012-12-06 44 -91, on Carimona Street at 6th Street, Winona, Minnesota: success!
2012-11-24 42 -89 Cornfield NW of Belleville, Wisconsin: success!
2012-10-13 42 -89 Farmland east of Darlington, Wisconsin, off County Highway M: success!
2012-10-12 43 -89 Farmland west of Governor Nelson State Park, Dane County, Wisconsin: success!
2012-10-06 42 -91 Volga River State Recreation Area, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa North graticule: success!
2012-10-06 42 -90 Off County Hwy A, west of Lancaster, Wisconsin: success!
2012-09-25 42 -90 Kennedy Mall parking lot; Dubuque, Iowa: success!
2012-09-21 43 -90 Northeast of Fennimore, Wisconsin: success!
2012-09-18 42 -90 Elk Grove, Wisconsin: failure: no trespassing
2012-09-16 42 -90 West of Mineral Point, Wisconsin: success!
Successful Retrohashes
1977-02-25 42 -90, for the Displaced origin geohash achievement in the Dubuque, Iowa graticule, off County Road N, east of Beetown, Wisconsin.
1977-02-25 44 -93, for the Origin geohash achievement in the Minneapolis SW, Minnesota graticule, in a snowy field north of Cologne, Minnesota.
1977-02-25 43 -90, for the Displaced origin geohash achievement in the Sparta, Wisconsin graticule, just off the road along State Highway 27 south of Melvina, Wisconsin.
Tempted, But Not Attempted
2013-05-14 42 -90 
This one is really disappointing: it's about 3 miles from my office, but I still probably can't get away long enough.
2013-05-21 global 
This globalhash is just barely outside the radius of stupidity.
Expedition resources
To start a new expedition page, copy:
{{subst:Expedition
|lat = 42
|lon = -90
|date = 2013-01-06
}}
DOT County maps:
Vague Goals Without Deadlines
Roughly in priority order:
Wedding anniversary geohash achievement at
hash
in Rockford, Illinois
Displaced origin geohash achievement at
hash
in Quad Cities, Iowa
Displaced origin geohash achievement at
hash
in Madison, Wisconsin
Displaced origin geohash achievement at
hash
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Displaced origin geohash achievement at
hash
in La Crosse, Wisconsin
Wedding anniversary geohash achievement at
hash
in Rapid City, South Dakota
Ribbons
Favorite Achievements
Template:Virgin graticule
Template:Virgin graticule
Other Achievements
Consolation Prizes
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Is it true that this user earned the Speed racer achievement?
- In principle, yes.
But it was not a road, but a parking lot, with no posted speed limit; also, you can't read the photo (2012-09-25 42 -90).
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Progress Tracking
Challenge
GeoSquishy Templates
I've got a couple of ribbon templates for tracking GeoSquishy progress: you can see them at
User:Swensonj/template/SquishyStars and User:Swensonj/template/SquishyProgress. If you're good with the wiki stuff, I'd like a bit of help with these. (How come my plural detection doesn't work?)
47 / m / 42,-90
2013-05-20 42 -90, Circle Road north of Lancaster, Wisconsin: success!
2012-09-18 42 -90 Elk Grove, Wisconsin: failure: no trespassing
2013-05-14 42 -90 
This one is really disappointing: it's about 3 miles from my office, but I still probably can't get away long enough.
This globalhash is just barely outside the radius of stupidity.
