2013-07-20 52 0
| Sat 20 Jul 2013 in Cambridge, UK: 52.1243548, 0.1804745 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
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Location
On the corner of a residential road in Sawston, a large village south of Cambridge.
Participants
Plans
Ben is intending to cycle from north Cambridge, arriving in good time for the canonical 4pm meetup time. He hopes the weather will be a little cooler than it has been for the past two weeks.
PaintedJaguar will be taking the lazy option, getting the Citi 7 bus from Cambridge to Sawston, and also aiming to arrive just before 4pm.
Expedition
PaintedJaguar was enjoying a Saturday afternoon in front of the TV watching the cricket, when he suddenly realised that if he wanted to catch the bus that would get him to the hashpoint for 4pm, he'd have to leave now. He quickly threw everything he needed (camera, GPS, Hammersmith the hashscot and chalk for the marker) into a bag, and hurried to the bus stop. He arrived a minute late, but fortunately the bus was later.
After getting off the bus in Sawston, he walked the short distance to the hashpoint, where his GPS promptly started being awkward, and he spent a long time walking round in circles in the middle of a road junction trying to find the exact hashpoint. Eventually he settled on the pavement at the side of the junction being the correct point (or at least the closest his GPS was going to tell him he was to the correct point), and left a chalk marker on the pavement.
He then sat down on a grass verge to wait for Benjw to arrive. 4pm came and went, with no sign of Benjw. About 10 minutes later Benjw did arrive, apologising for being late after taking a wrong turning on the way. The two chatted briefly, and Benjw took a photo of them together, before they walked back to the bus stop. PaintedJaguar got a bus home after a few minutes, and Benjw set off on his bike. Before long, PaintedJaguar was sat back at home in front of the TV, watching the cricket again.
This was a very uneventful expedition for PaintedJaguar, but notable for being his first ever Saturday meetup!
Photographic documentation
...to follow
Tracklog
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Shiny ribbons earned
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PaintedJaguar earned the Land geohash achievement
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PaintedJaguar earned the Public transport geohash achievement
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PaintedJaguar earned the Earliest geohasher achievement
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PaintedJaguar earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement
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