400th waymark listed.

I just had my 400th Waymark accepted. It ended up being the Rolls Royce Neon Sign that I listed. I posted several others this evening, including a History Museum, 2 Bells, a Caboose, a Professional Sports Venue, a topiary, a Unique Steeple, a Static Aircraft Display and an Exact Replica which was a cross post of one of the bells.

This past weekend while gathering those, I also managed to visit a few Waymarks as well.

Along the way I took some pictures of a couple of other sites, that I thought I could fit into a category, but now I'm not so sure. Specifically there is the Field of 6' tall Concrete Corn in Dublin, Ohio (can be seen here, here, here, here, and here). This was a public arts project to memorialize Central Ohio's agricultural beginnings, and to symbolize the corn fields, and homesteads that stood here before they decided it was a good place for highways and office buildings.

The other is locally famous "Art" sculpture/sign/whatever (can be seen here, here, and here). It's located at the Columbus College of Art and Design in downtown Columbus, OH. It stands probably about 50' tall, and bridges the street there. The local folks like to have fun with it. There is one perspective where photo can be taken with a couple of light poles that can be made to look like the letter "F" in front of the "art" sign.

Waymarking Visits....

I just got off tonight's Waymarking chat....a little abruptly since I lost my connection for some reason....and there was some pretty good dialog this evening.

One thing that was brought up was the requirements for visiting Waymarks. Most seem to be in favor of reducing or eliminating visit requirements. This is something that I completely support personally. Sure, there is a possibility that folks could "cheat" or that people will just log their visits with "TFTW," however that's not something that really concerns me. If people want to log a visit on my Waymarks when they haven't actually been there, that's their problem, and their loss. It really doesn't effect me in any way. With the quick logs of "TFTW," again, that's the visitor's thing. If someone isn't inspired to write a novel about a Waymark of mine, that's certainly understandable. I don't expect everyone to love the Waymarks I've posted....people are entitled to their own opinions.

I think that fewer requirements will help new folks better embrace Waymarking. If we keep telling people "Sorry, that's not good enough. You need to do this and this, and post a picture showing this...." then folks aren't going to want to try to visit, or post Waymarks anymore. Certainly, it's nice to see folks post photos with their logs, but there are still plenty of folks who don't have digicams, and don't want to figure out how to use one. There's no reason why I should exclude anyone from playing just because they don't have the want, or means to post photos. In the long run I think most will still post photos, and really, it'll make the photos that DO get posted that much more of a surprise, of sorts. I don't like having to meet special requirements to tell others that I visited a Waymark. To me, it's about being there and experiencing the location, and arbitrary and difficult photo requirements actually take away from the experience for me. I'm more worried about meeting the requirement than reading the sign, or looking at the sculpture, or whatever.

Of course this doesn't really apply to the "Waymarking Games" department, since many of those are set up a certain way that would still need specific requirements.

On a side note a few folks were discussing traveling to various parts of the world to go Waymarking, and to visit other folks. I've been thinking about doing the same. Especially since Skybus came to town earlier in the year. $10 airfares to many major cities makes it much more attractive to travel around just for the heck of it. I don't know how much they've been advertised in various destination cities, but there has been a lot of talk here, since they're based out of Port Columbus International Airport.....so I invite all of you in, or near their destinations to come out to Ohio for a day or two. :)

Hockey is back, and weekend Waymarking

Tonight I was in attendance of the Columbus Blue Jackets first pre-season game, against the Nashville Predators. I wish I could say that I was excited about this year's team, but to me, it looked a little lack-luster this evening. To their defense, there have been some pretty big changes in the organization from the top down, and they only had two days of training camp before the game. They're also trying out some new lines this year. One in particular that should be interesting is Rick Nash and David Vyborny being centered by Nikolai Zherdev. In the past Zherdev has been a wing, but they decided to try him in center since he's always had a tendency to center the puck anyhow. Unfortunately Vyborny left the game early tonight with an injury to his left leg. Nashville's Martin Erat made a cheap hit on Vyborny. Vyborny laid on the ice for a few minutes, but was able to get up and skate off, although he was assisted by a few teammates. Last I heard he was taken to the hospital, and nothing is going to be released, or decided about his condition until morning. All in all, it should be an interesting year. Hopefully they can make it to the playoffs this year, and lose the title of being the only team to have never been to the playoffs.

This weekend Dewgrl and I managed to grab a few Waymarks. On Saturday we had only planned to go out for some breakfast at an Amish style restaurant in a near by town. After we left there I decided that I wanted to grab the two Ohio Historical Markers in Madison County. After marking the second one I wanted to go to nearby London, Ohio, to Waymark the courthouse, but we decided to head out to Springfield instead to see the Madonna of the Trail out there. In all we got the two historical markers, a few cemeteries, an infamous crime scene, a few Zinc headstones, a solar power location, an outdoor warning siren, and probably a few that I've forgotten. I haven't posted most of them yet, simply because I've been lazy, but I'll probably get on that soon. Over all it was a beautiful day. It was much cooler than it has been recently, and it was nice and sunny. It made for some good pictures.