2009-04-15 33 -84

Graticule

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I was a little concerned about making this Geohash and the string of consecutive hashes come to an end. It was way far west for me. It was almost as far west in the graticule as you could go. I live almost as far east in the graticule as I could go. Mapquest said that it was a 58 mile drive for me from work. That was using the interstates. The Atlanta Braves Baseball is in playing in Atlanta tonight at 7:05pm and I feared that traffic on the interstate system would be a nightmare.

I found an option on Google maps that you can select for walking. Don't trust those direction. They lead to dead end streets. But, after driving around to find alternats, it cut 20 miles out of the trip. Still traffic was bad going west anyway.

Expedition

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After spending all that time to drive to this location, probably an hour and 15 minutes or so. I drive up on a gate with a woman guard in the guard box. I said my hellos and explained Geohashing to her. I probably took about 5 minutes to explain along with showing her my camera, eTrex GPS and maps.

After all of that, she looks at me and says "No." That is all she said. I said that I would be 5 minutes and be on my way. She looked at me and said "No." She was probably in her late 50's to early 60's. She was smoking and had a cigarette hanging from her mouth. She looked to me to not be a day over 85.

She was clueless and started repeating several times "I can not let you in with out a home owner." She repeated that 4 or 5 times with out me saying any thing. Sounded to me like a broken record. She could have at any time of my 5 minute speach explaining Geohashing to say no and continuously repeating herself.

She was on of those hired hands who thought she could boss people around because she had the words "Security" stitched on on her sleeve. I gave up on all hope on reasoning with her and turned around and left.

I was thinking to myself all this time to get there and turned away by a clueless old bag that could only repeat a sentence that was printed on a page that was probably hanging somewhere on the inside of the guard stand. As I was driving away, I noticed a walk way that crosses the street that leads onto the golf course.

I parked my truck at the corner convince store grabbed the eTrex and started walking. It ended up being 1.3 mile walk to the hash point. I took a couple of pictures and started my walk back because I knew that it was getting dark and 30 minutes back to my truck.

I then drove home to Norcross.

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It was a gated community. They wouldn't let me drive in, but I could walk in. I had to walk 1.3 miles to the hash point.
I'm all worn out with 0.17 miles to go, AND I have to walk back.
Ahhh.. Made it. Now to walk back.