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I didn't expect you to solve this one so quickly gfoot

I thought it might be a little too cryptic.

I think I was just in the right mood. I haven't solved "Find Me", but I convinced myself it was something geographic, so when I came to this one it's the first thing that sprang to mind.

Is it intended, that the challenge does not use proper Georef coordinates? Georef is AbAbAAAAbbbb, but this challenge uses AbAbAAbbAAbb. The coordinates resemble Georef, but I got suspicious, because the fith digit is sometimes >= 6. Additionally the third digit is always < 6. So I guessed the coordiantes use the shorter Georef format with the decimal places of the minutes appended. When I got the "THE" of the canonical answer, I knew I was on the right track. (:

Hawaii point helped to adjust to broken GEOREF scheme.

My major problem was to understand what points actually point to.
Crossroads first suggested road numbers and names, then nearest
(proper) cities, then states.

Then it suddenly occured to me that google maps does not show
local town names and I've switched to openstreetmaps.

Tron wrote:Is it intended, that the challenge does not use proper Georef coordinates?

That is something I would like to know as well... Since MerickOWA has vanished long time ago, we will probably never find out.