Richmond, Virginia
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The Richmond, Virginia graticule is at latitude 37, longitude -77.
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Local Geohashers
Andrew, from Short Pump, is going to give this a shot on saturday if he can convince his friends to come too.
Blaine, living in Southside this summer, could get into this.
Dan, from the West End (but not Short Pump), is up for a reasonably close excursion, as he is currently unemployed and needs to save on gas.
Paul, Richmonder when school is out, can't think of anything better to do on Saturday then drive to some random location and hang out with other similiarly bored people. Might be working though...
James, real-life friend of Randall's since middle school, will try and make it Saturdays at 4 as long as it's not terribly far from Richmond-proper, using Ashland & Petersburg as rough north-south boundary points.
Julie is less adventurous than most xkcd people, and will gamely try to get there on Saturdays when not too much trespassing is required. Shoofle is often her companion.
Peter, from Glen Allen, is willing to give this a shot so long as he's back from college.
Tyler, also from Short Pump, might do this since he could use the practice on his new bike. He will also will be working, though.
Upcoming Geohashing Proposals
Most recent proposals/comments at the top, please.
James would have to leave the house now to get to that location in time, and having just woken up, he is feeling too lazy, unfortnuately. He would opine that that road is a rather pretty drive, however, and that it ultimately leads to User:Julie's house, where there is Rock Band.
Clint thinks that the Newport News Saturday meetup for today (2008 July 5) is a little closer to Richmond than the Richmond one in the Richmond graticule. He's not sure what the deal is with the alternative location because it provides no advantages to the original one. It must be random, and to that, he says, the original location is already random!
Dan missed out on the Pocahontas excursion, but recommends a cat with toast, butter side up, strapped to its back for better results with the trebuchet.
Paul thinks Pocahontas State Park sounds great - and has therefore suggested it as an alternate location. I might be a little late but I hope to see that trebuchet!
Tyler is wondering why most of the locations are near the edges of the map, far away from people.
Successful Geohashes
6-21-2008: James, Julie, and Clint met up in the front field of Pocahontas State Park (near 37.365007°, -77.572639°) and later made a few test firings of the trebuchet, Bangarang. Ricky was there, but left to rejoin us later.
6-14-2008: Peter read the blag and met up with Randall and Doug on Belle Island downtown since Aylett is a bit too far away. There was a kayak competition going on, and swimming was had by all despite nobody thinking to bring a swimsuit. Alternate meetup site = success. Pictures here
5-31-2008: Shoofle and Julie met up with Paul in Suffolk County Saturday afternoon for a nice visit and some time kicking around a soccer ball. We didn't get to exactly the right spot, but it was close enough. Pictures here
stepol (and their kids) from the Central Virginia Geocaching Association made a Memorial Day run to the Shady Grove location.
Daily Locations
Most recent locations listed first
6-28-2008: 37.65811°, -77.365635° (Saturday meetup location)
6-21-2008: 37.365007°, -77.572639° (Saturday meetup alternate location)
6-14-2008: 37.53014861°, -77.45464325° (Saturday meetup alternate location)
5-31-2008: 37.037487°, -77.281267° (Saturday meetup location)
