2014-01-24 51 -0
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Location
In Hatfield, on the Comet Hotel roundabout.
Participants
Plans
Um, planning?
Expedition
I got the call from Stuart The Garage: "Your truck had a stuck turbo waste gate. Stop using it for short journeys you muppet." OK, I thought. Need to take it for a longish run. What can I do in an hour?
I remembered Calamus had given me some pointers the other day when I failed to even start getting to a geohash. I checked the cupboard for cake but there was a shocking lack, so decided to check todays geohash. Joy of joys, it's in Hatfield! Jewel of the... Hatfield environs; my alma-mater. I shall go to Hatfield the long way down the back roads and reminisce of work days and poly/uni days.
It's been some years (20<<cough>>) since I used the backroads from Baldock to Hatfield to get to work, so after I drove around lost for 20 mins or so outside Woolmer Green I approached from a slightly different angle than I'd planned. But that was OK. The journey was not short and I was obeying the instructions of Stuart The Garage.
So the point was on the Comet roundabout going north on the inside I think. I drove around it a couple of times just to make sure and then parked in the Comet Hotel car park, fending off a very nice chap who wanted to wash the truck. To be fair, it does need it. I took photos. I got out. Watched a learner motorcyclist with a sat nav wobble past the geohash point and wondered whether he was a geohasher. Looked hard at the Comet model, which used to be the sign when I was a kid that we were nearly home from London (this was way before the Galleria and the tunnel). Had a little think about the various trolleys I had pushed/been pushed in past this very spot when at Poly. Great days.
This was my first geohash. Jolly good fun, if a little odd. Thanks to those of you who made this possible.
Tracklog
Didn't think of that.
Photos
The geohash point is about where the white car is. Decided not to attempt a ground zero photo.
The Comet Hotel and model De Havilland Comet. Metal fatigue does not seem to be an issue here.
Achievements
Not sure what this means, will research, but First Geohash maybe?
