2015-04-19 global

Location

In the Evansville, Indiana graticule, (near Hartford Kentucky).

This hashpoint was .25 of a mile in to the woods of a rock quary

Participants

NWoodruff

Coordinates Reached! My Second Global Geohash. I am the most active GlobalHasher.

Sitting at my desk at work, most times, I start eyeing my email at about 9:35am. My email notify program usually sends out mail between 9:37 and 9:40am. If you haven't tried it, you should. It is at http://xkcd.nathanwoodruff.com/Notify.aspx The email popped up and I was hoping that there would be a Saturday Geohash that would be reachable.

On Fridays, I usually get about 1 or 2 locations sent to me that are close by. This email had 3 locations listed in it. I thought... Wow.. Lucky, I'll be able to geohash every day this weekend. Fridays Geohash was only 5 miles from my house. Saturdays Geohash was a little farther at 21 miles. Still acceptable. I then looked at Sundays geohash and it said 28.1 miles away. I though strange that I had set the notification at less than 25 miles. I thought that there must be something wrong with the program and I would look at it when I got home.

I then took another glance at it and notice something wrong. There was no period in the number. The number was 281 miles. How could that be???? I took a look at the link. For local Geohashes I provide a link to carabineer map. But for Global Hashes I provide a link to Google maps. I quickly looked at the link, it was a google maps link. I said "No way". I quickly clicked on the link hoping that it wouldn't be in the Atlantic Ocean.

Kentucky... I was in business. I didn't have anything to do on Sunday either. I quickly zoomed to the global hash spot. There are roads near by. It looks like a trek into the woods of about .25 of a mile but that should be fine. I decide that instead of driving my own truck, I would rent a car that got great gas mileage and I would have to do that Saturday morning.

To be continued....

Here is my GPX Tracklog... [1] and can be viewed after downloading with this... http://gpxviewer.1bestlink.net/

NWoodruff Gallery

Nashville Tennessee, 125 miles away.
What??? Back in Georgia? Am I going the right way?
Well, I think I am going the right way.
Okay.. I was worried for a moment.
The famous Tennessee River.
River to the right.
River to the left.
More mountains to driver over.
Great view.
Rock slide.
Remember that 20oz coke that you started off with??? Yea... rest area.
Ahhh... refreshed.....
Nashville 79 miles.
Nashville, Here I come.
More Nashville.
The Tennessee Titans stadium.
I've made it to Kentucky.
Bowling Green Kentucky. The Corvette Museum. I didn't stop though.
Cool looking bridge.
Hartford Kentucky. Where I am headed to.
As close as I could get from the road.
I made it. The money Shot.
Time of day.
Date and time.
Looking West standing on the GlobalHash point.
Looking East standing on the GlobalHash spot.
Looking South standing on the GlobalHash spot.
Looking North standing on the GlobalHash spot with a Stupid Grin™
Am I flashing the universal Peace sign? Nooo... that is 2... 2 fingers for my SECOND GLOBALHAHS!!
I was going to spell out XKCD with sticks but as I was looking for more sticks to make a C, the sky opened up with a downpour. So I took a picture and left it with XK.
6 hours 3 minutes and 30 seconds to drive 385.4 miles from my house to the GlobalHash spot.