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billroper ([personal profile] billroper) wrote2016-06-08 10:29 pm
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Ingressing

Yesterday, I picked up my Onyx Sojourner badge, having hacked a portal daily for 360 consecutive days. The biggest challenge there was at FilkONtario when I was at a hotel with no portal and had a phone with no data access. Fortunately, the Montana restaurant across the parking lot had both free Wi-fi and a portal, which meant they got a lot of my business. :)

Today, I added a Silver Explorer badge, which is not nearly so impressive, but which indicates that I've hacked 1000 different portals. This was most recently on the back of our trip to Balticon, which managed to add about 70 or 80 portals to my previous total and put me close enough that I was able to make it with the three new portals I hacked tonight while Gretchen drove us to dinner after Katie's softball game.

Which Katie's team won, 3-0, with Katie scoring two out of the three runs. Run, Katie, run!
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[personal profile] hrrunka 2016-06-10 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
My hacking streak got broken this last week when I went to South Wales for some walking in the Brecon Beacons. There are portals there, but no mobile data sufficient to sustain an Ingress session, and I didn't manage to find any WiFi (free or otherwise) within range of any of them. I suspect it might just be possible for me to get to 180 days, but 360 will be seriously tricky.