2011-08-22 43 -89
| Mon 22 Aug 2011 in 43,-89: 43.0079141, -89.0222607 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
The parking lot of a Piggly Wiggly store.
Participants
RocketMac - On my way from Milwaukee to Minneapolis for work
Plans
Normally when I drive for work, I plan out a few Geocaches along the way to break up the driving and snag a few finds. This time, I realized that I would be passing through multiple graticules and five of them had hashpoints I could reach with only a slight detour.
In the full spirit of adventure, I let The Algorithm be the wind in my sails and the GPS satellites my stars. I just let them guide me from one hashpoint to another taking routes I never would have tried before and seeing all new sights.
Expedition
This was the second of five. Following my digital fate, I found myself at a Piggly Wiggly. Across the street was an old-style highway motel. I had been on the phone with my wife earlier and she had said the highway I was on was the primary route before the freeway system. It explained a lot about the sights.
The hashpoint itself was not interesting. I just stood at the point and took a picture of myself. I checked for a nearby geocache and GCXYF2 - CFD was just down the street. It was a large PVC pipe hidden in the sign of the local Fire/EMT house. The natives watched me but were not terribly surprised.
Tracklog
My log for the whole day is available in GPX and KMZ formats
Photos
Me at the hashpoint
The sign for the Piggly Wiggly I was invading
Cool motel across the road
Home of the nearest geocache
The cache container
Achievements
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RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement
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