2018-04-28 42 -85

Location

Wedgwood Park, Grandville, MI

Participants

Mcbaneg (talk) (George)

Expedition

I've been out of the game for a while. This was a Saturday hashpoint easily accessible by public transportation, the rest of the family is away, it was sunny and pleasant outside, and my grading is done for the semester: time to return to geohashing.

The bus schedule was encouraging: from the usual stop near my house either #5 or 6 went to Central Station, 10-minute layover, bus #8 directly to the park entrance, half an hour to wander around and find the hashpoint, #8 back to the station, 10-minute layover, and either #5 or 6 back home. This is a good schedule for a Saturday.

At the park it was easy to find the hashpoint in a grassy field close to the road. I was there a few minutes before 4. A woman carrying an iPad came wandering over and asked whether I was playing Pokemon Go. I said no, I was playing a sort of similar thing called geohashing. It appears there was a Pokemon egg at today's hashpoint that she was trying to collect. She was frustrated because she couldn't get a good enough Internet connection to get credit for it, though she could see that she was in the right place. We had a short but pleasant conversation.

I waited around until 4 pm. Right about then a guy pulled up in the closest parking space while looking at his phone, and I momentarily thought I might actually get to meet another geohasher. But he stayed in his car and seemed uninterested in random spots in the field in front of him. I decided he was just one of the bazillions of people who look at their phones while driving. I walked back to the road to catch the 4:08 bus toward home.

Map shot from Central Station.
Bus #8 headed toward hashpoint. After I took this picture I got in line and boarded the bus. The driver asked me, somewhat skeptically, "What was the picture for?".
Map shot from bus stop near park.
Proof (closest).
Proof (4 pm).
Grin.
View WSW.
View NW.
View S.
American Legion memorial. The main plaque had names of WWI and WWII veterans. The side plaques listed Korea and Vietnam names. Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc. didn't appear.
View from east side of road back west toward park entrance.