User:Rhonda

Hi. My name is Rhonda, and I like adventure. Robyn thinks I am at least as insane as she is, possibly due to my first ever geohash being a (planned) 4 hour kayak expedition.

Geohashes attempted (29/39)

#29: 2010-03-08 45 -122 (Vancouver, WA): under some trees on the edge of a school field with aperfectring and Jiml.
#28: 2009-11-16 44 -92 (Kenyon, MN): in the middle of a country highway with Trane.
#27: 2009-11-14 44 -92 (Rochester, MN): golfing (badly) my way to a point on the 13th hole with Trane.
2009-11-08 44 -92 (St. Paul SE, MN): in a park that wasn't a park near the Mississippi River, thwarted by fences and a hunting club.
#26: 2009-09-29 50 -119 (Armstrong, BC): on the shoulder of a country road near Armstrong.
#25: 2009-09-27 50 -120 (Kamloops, BC): a short hike after a long drive through a maze of logging roads with Mom.
2009-09-12 49 -122 (Golden Ears Park, BC): a swim hash thwarted by crazy seadoos with Xore.
#24: 2009-09-07 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): kayaking 4km into the Georgia Strait with Xore.
#23: 2009-09-01 49 -123 (Paradise River, BC): bushwhacking in the dark in an indian reserve with Xore.

@ 2009-08-30 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): playing tag with Xore and Wade and the Tag! You're it! crew.
#22: 2009-07-31 49 -123 (Burnaby, BC): empty lot transit hash with Xore and plypkie
#21: 2009-07-28 49 -122 (Annacis Island, BC): parking lot transit hash with Xore and PhilB
2009-07-14 49 -122 (Buntzen Lake, BC): ran out of time on the way to the top of a mountain, with Robyn and Xore.
2009-07-12 49 -122 (Langley, BC): 4 metres on the other side of a tall fence, with Xore
#20: 2009-07-11 49 -123 (West Vancouver, BC): kayak hash into the shipping lanes off Ambleside Park with Xore, Robyn and Wade, and plypkie, yangman, and Elbie.
#19: 2009-07-10 49 -123 (North Vancouver, BC): down a cliff with Robyn after meeting Flag guy coming back from his expedition.
#18: 2009-07-05 49 -125 (Courtenay, BC): virgin graticule with Elbie, Xore, and Xore's sister and brother-in-law.
#17: 2009-06-19 50 -121 (Cache Creek, BC): my first solo geohash.
#16: 2009-06-14 49 -122 (Surrey, BC): ambassador geohash in a Surrey backyard with Xore, Elbie, SueB, yangman, and plypkie.

@ 2009-06-12 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Watched Elbie give a talk about geohashing to some UBC Computer Science grad students with Xore and yangman.
#15: 2009-06-06 51 -121 (100 Mile House, BC): short easy hike with Mom.
#14: 2009-06-03 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): transit tree twister hash with Elbie, Ray, Stathi, and Xore.
@ 2009-05-23 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): Mouse Over Day celebration on the cruise ship dock at Canada Place, with Robyn, Wade, Xore, SueB, Elbie, Simon, and of course my mom.
#13: 2009-05-21 48 -123 (Saltspring Island, BC): Geohashing Day celebration with Xore, Elbie, Robyn, and Wade, with cake and twister.
#12: 2009-05-18 50 -120 (Kamloops, BC): sewage plant hash with Mom.
#11: 2009-05-12 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): transit kayak hash with Robyn.
#10: 2009-05-10 50 -120 (Kamloops, BC): logging road consecutive geohash with my parents and Robyn.
#9: 2009-05-09 50 -119 (Vernon, BC): missing the perfect road and hiking for a consecutive geohash with Robyn and Juventas.
2009-05-08 49 -119 (Kelowna, BC): aborted due to darkness and potholes at the highway turnoff.

#8: 2009-05-08 49 -120 (Princeton, BC): hiking up from a provincial campsite with Robyn and Juventas.
#7: 2009-05-03 48 -122 (Laurel, WA): bicycle border transit consecutive geohash with Robyn.
#6: 2009-05-02 48 -122 (Silver Lake Park, WA): transit bicycle border camping geohash with Robyn.
2009-04-28 49 -122 (Coquitlam, BC): Bicycle no trespassing geohash with Robyn, SueB, and yangman.
#5: 2009-04-25 49 -123 (Gambier Island, BC): clifftop picnic hash in the sun with Robyn and Wade.
2009-04-23 48 -122 (Orcas Island, WA): Border, ferry, bicycle, camping... no trespassing geohash with Robyn.
#4: 2009-04-22 49 -122 (Langley, BC): via public transit. Met Robyn and played hopscotch.
#3: 2009-04-16 48 -122 (Semiahmoo Bay, WA): via transit and bike. Met Robyn on the bus and thepiguy at the Peace Arch at 1PM, and rode there together.
#2: 2009-04-13 49 -122 (Langley, BC): via public transit. Met Robyn at the hashpoint about 4pm.
#1: 2009-04-08 49 -123 (Vancouver, BC): - 5 1/2 hours in an inflatable kayak I bought that morning. Success with Robyn!

Upcoming

Going to be in Portland, OR for the next couple of days.
Scout the bridge access bike route from both sides and for all arrival and departure directions for the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge - will need to know this if I want to do a pure bicycle geohash that isn't best accessed via downtown or on the north shore.

Goals

My origin hash spot looks so easy to access, I'm going to go for it next time I visit my parents (with time to spare in the trip up or back). It's about 500m (straight line) from highway 5, and google maps shows what appears to be a logging road that passes within 20m or less of the spot.

Personal firsts

Things that I did for the first time in my life while or because of geohashing.

Kayaked into 17kts wind and whitecaps in open water.
Rode a bike across an international border.
Went to the US on a lark. (All other trips were planned in advance.)
Bicycle camping.
Carried a kayak on a city bus.
Bushwhacked my way down a cliff.

Geohashers met

aperfectring on 2010-03-08 when he picked me up in his car.
Elbie on 2009-05-21 picked up on a street corner.
Flag guy on 2009-07-10 300m from the hash point.
Jiml on 2010-03-08 when he walked into my hotel following his GPS.
Juventas on 2009-05-08 at the Stemwinder campsite entrance.
PhilB on 2009-07-28 chasing my bus on his harley.
plypkie on 2009-06-14 at the hashpoint driveway.
Ray on 2009-06-03 in a tree.
Rhonda's mom when I convinced her to come geohashing on 2009-05-10 - mother's day
Robyn on 2009-04-08 inflating a kayak at Porteau Cove.
SueB on 2009-04-28 in an empty driveway (but really I knew her before).
thepiguy on 2009-04-16 falling off his bike at the Peace Arch.
Trane on 2009-11-14 in a parking lot on the way to golf.
Wade on 2009-04-25 at the water taxi dock.
Xore on 2009-05-21 picked up on a street corner (but really I knew him before).
yangman on 2009-04-28 in an empty driveway.

Other pages

POSTED: list of my no trespassing geohashes for the POSTED achievement.
Cycling: list of my bicycle trip distances.
xkcd Centurion: list of Saturday meetups attended.
BC Regional Districts project: Graticule maps of BC's Regional Districts, for a more feasible regional geohash award in BC.