Oh the places you'll go...

Hiidoran

Hiidoran

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    We know GO is getting people up and moving about, but after you've thoroughly explored your home, neighborhood, town... where else has it taken you?

    Have you traveled just to see what kind of Pokémon were there, or what gyms/stops there were?

    Where'd you go? Did you find anything interesting or not really available at your home?
     
    5 mile radius around my hometown by foot.

    5 mile radius around NYC by foot, covering Madison Square Park, Central Park/Columbus Circle, Bryant Park, Union Square. Looking forward to extending far west to De Witt Clinton Park and/or Roosevelt Island off to the east (for potential Dratini line encounters) sometime later this week.

    Visited several other parks around the New York metro area and suburbs, in addition to ports/piers on the tip of Long Island, as well as Jones Beach, Far Rockaway Beach and Robert Moses State Park in Fire Island.

    I'm at the point where it's quite difficult for me to find a Pokémon I haven't encountered yet, though it helps to capture the ones I already own to speed up evolution processes. I'm mostly going by word-of-mouth now to target the Pokémon I'm searching for, hence why I mentioned Roosevelt Island above since I really need to start Dratini hunting. Missed one today when the silhouette briefly showed up on my nearby list, disappeared and never came back.
     
    So there are still some pokemon I have seen hiding around my town that I have not seen spawn yet ( I WILL FIND YOU EVENTUALLY ONIX. I'VE SEEN YOUR SILHOUETTE I KNOW YOU'RE AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE.), and I can tell that with how incredibly rare some of them are in my town it's going to take me a pretty decent amount of time to get good stats on the ones I really like. Even if I walk around my entire town several times, I know through having tried being out at early hours and late hours, that different pokemon spawn around here based on the time, which means I have a ton more walking I need to do.

    I was already incredibly excited to be traveling to Boston this next October, but I feel like GO has added this whole new aspect to all of the fun I will be having over there, especially knowing that I will be on the opposite side of the country and will likely find pokemon that although are common there might be completely rare and impossible to find where I live.
     
    I've found that malls are really good spots since they seem to have a lot of PokeSpots and because they're so high-traffic, a lot of lures always seem to be up. Luckily I have two in my immediate area as well.

    Strangest place it's taken me... there's an old and decrepit abandoned gas station near my house that's a gym lol. It's a gym because there's an enormous mural on one of the walls, but yeah, that's a thing.
     
    I live in a sizable neighborhood scattered with parks (pokestops and gyms), so I kinda... stay within it. Once I leave the neighborhood it's a deadzone till I reach the shopping center... and it's too hot to trek there by foot right now. (I don't drive;;;)

    When college starts again, I'll prolly explore the college town a bit.
     
    Hikari Takahashi said:
    Strangest place it's taken me... there's an old and decrepit abandoned gas station near my house that's a gym lol. It's a gym because there's an enormous mural on one of the walls, but yeah, that's a thing.
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    That's so spooky! It would be so fitting/hilarious if someone took over that gym with a Gengar!

    GO has me leaving my town to go into the city a lot more. While there are a few parks and at least one cemetery close by with a decent amount of stops and gyms, there's just no comparison to metropolitan Indianapolis around. There's one area where a canal snakes through the city and there's literally a stop every 50 feet or so. It's lucrative - and all the water attracts water-types more frequently.

    I don't think I've ever ventured downtown this much in my life, and I technically attended college in the middle of the city! Haha...
     
    I've headed into the local town a few times just for Go as there's a lot of stuff like Clefairy and Geodude there that won't spawn in my village, but other than that I've not gone too far yet. I've also taken a brief trip into the local woods to see what was around but unfortunately there was hardly anything there; feels like Pokémon only really spawn around built-up areas?
     
    Mostly the areas I've been to are the same areas I would go to for other reasons and that's given me a bit of variety already. I haven't really had the will to drive out to someplace just to play GO, but depending on how dry the well gets in my area I might do that soon.
     
    Nothing spawns where I live, hell I can't even get a GPS signal(yay for living in the middle of nowhere, Alabama!) so it has encouraged me to venture into town more. I've started to lose interest because of the lack of immediate areas to catch Pokemon but I might try going out and visiting some local parks and what not to see what I can get.
     
    There's a trailer park next to my work that usually spawns one Pokémon when we drive by it, 90% of the time it's a Pokémon that doesn't spawn in my town.


    In the past I caught Tauros, Koffing, Haunter and today Jynx.


    90% of the time when I go to another town in the afternoon the servers are down and I can't log in anyways so who knows if they have different Pokémon.
     
    It was through this game that I found a shortcut between my house and Safeway. I guess I can get the groceries and catch the pogeymanz at the same time.
     
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