GPS Applications #5: Geotagging

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Fairfax fire department.jpg Last week I stayed in a hotel in Fairfax, Virginia, about 15 miles out of Washington DC.

 

It's an innocuous town, but wandering about the place I had a strange sense of deja-vu. It took me a little while to realize, but I had been there before, almost 20 years previously.

 

In 1990 I set off on a bicycle from Capitol Hill with a group of my fellow students, and just over six weeks later arrived at the Golden Gate Bridge, (unrecognisably fitter and more tanned than I will ever be again. I can't believe the photo's are really me!) Fairfax was our first stop out of DC, and the local fire department had laid-on refreshments in anticipation of our arrival.

 

Once I realized where I was, I searched through the scanned photos on my laptop and found the picture attached to this post showing some of the team taking advantage of this hospitality, 19 years ago. I then spent most of my evening in Fairfax driving around looking for that fire station, wondering perhaps if the place had been demolished in the meantime. I found it still standing, (actually remarkably unchanged), but by the time I got there the place was closed-up, apparently for the night. (Who knows what happens if there is a fire in Fairfax in the evening?)

 

So far, this is the occasion on which I have most earnestly wished that all my photos are geotagged!

 

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