Wisk: GDFK-AQIW

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Player: Wisk
Team: Llama League

GDFK-AQIW is near Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA.

> Date, Points, TeamPoints, Dashpoint, Country, State, Lat, Lon, Distance
2021-07-29, 3, 3, GDFK-AQIW, USA, Arizona, 31.6405, -110.3527, 30

New extreme east visit this year for Arizona: GDFK-AQIW
New extreme south visit this year for Arizona: GDFK-AQIW
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Number of previous hunts by Wisk: 459

We had been trying to get one final dashpoint but the monsoons and schedules were thwarting our plans. AQIW was the only reasonable and reachable dashpoint in this final game. We turned south from Interstate 10 onto AZ-90 and then west on Railroad Drive. It was trash day as everybody had their large green trash containers out for pickup. We stopped abeam the point located south of the road in a cluster of trees 30 meters away. We turned around in a driveway for a house located at 415 Hondo Lane - captured in the pictures we took 58 meters away. On our way back we went west on AZ-82 to Sonoita then north on AZ-83 and then back home.
It was hard to believe we were in Arizona, everything was so incredibly green from the record monsoon rains we have been having.
It was a sad day - our final geodashing geo-date - and one final time to say "Three points for Wisk and the Llama League!"

On another note, it was a time to reflect upon all the adventures this game has taken us on. We have all read about the adventures other players have had. Reading along as our kids learned to drive taking us to dashpoints and other significant family and life events we have all in someway shared with each other through these narratives. Moving to new states, new jobs, retirements. In someway we all share a common bond thanks to Scout.

I tried to use the search engine to find some of my more memorable dash adventures and possibly forgotten ones, but that part of this site does not seem to be up and working - pictures are also not up and viewable.

So, from memory, a rambling and unorganized tribute...

YLO_RLR introduced me to geodashing while on a mad confluence adventure about 20 years ago (many of you have also followed my exploits on the Degree Confluence Project) and I found that often, dashpoints were along the way to integer intersections of Latitude and Longitude!

Along the way I have met the members of my team and planned to meet up with several others at various times and places but, due to circumstances, couldn't.

We've all gotten stuck at some point and all of us had to convince the people we were with of the worthy objective of getting within 100 meters of some random set of coordinates just for intangible "points" and the opportunity to tell a story of the adventure.

I've taken all of you through a few of my household moves, multiple trips from work, and even one game where I failed to properly score since I was several miles above them flying at 450 Knots. It took quite a bit of persuasion to convince my navigation team to let the pilot do the planning along a serpentine route over random points I explained and described as targets. If I remember correctly, our mean radial error was less than 30 meters for all 20 some of the dashpoints we overflew that day.

I spent 6 months on Guam waiting for the one dashpoint that was finally achievable during my time there!

I've slept in my dashmobile, left in the evening to score the last dashpoint of the month before midnight and then the first dashpoint of the month shortly after midnight only to get home early in the morning and go right to work.

I've sent short reports and narratives over satellite phone because there was no other service around.

I've taken my wife and daughters to countless lunches and dinners in places we never would have known existed without geodashing.

There was always the excitement of when the new dashpoints were coming out and the hours spent planning each month for which ones could realistically be achieved and those that might be worthy of a mad dash.

I tried (not sure if I did without database access) to get 100 points in a month. I've been elated when I was top scorer for the month and always when Llama League scored the most points!

My wife would always ask how we were doing compared to the GeoTerriers!

I excitedly told my wife when one of my or her pictures became the picture of the month associated with that game!!

I've used many different GPS units, computers, phones, voice recorders, and equipment to play this game - now a simple smart phone can accomodate all the functions that used to take many individual gadgets.

I've read with interest adventures around the world and wondered how place names came about - many of you were very good to explain a lot more about your dash in your narratives - that may be the second best part of this game (other than actually hunting itself) - reading the adventures of others doing the exact same thing!!

I'm really going to miss this game and the shared adventures.

Scout, thanks for putting all the work in to keep this going for so long!!

Wisk

http://geodashing.gpsgames.org/cgi-bin/dp.pl?dp=GDFK-AQIW

[Scout]

Wisk wrote: " I tried to use the search engine to find some of my more memorable dash adventures and possibly forgotten ones, but that part of this site does not seem to be up and working - pictures are also not up and viewable."

Please explain.  I am able to use the scoreboard to list all 460 of your reports, starting with https://geodashing.gpsgames.org/cgi-bin/dp.pl?dp=GD40-AHOH . That one also includes a photo.

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