Platinum Trekker

I always go straight on, there are no bends in my path: if I deviated, the Heavens would make fun of me.
Raoh

"Green Cecina" operation

Cecina, ITALY.

I was born here, doesn't it need a quick sign of my visits, from time to time?

Completed at 01:36 AM CET, 3015 MU.

Big op & the return of "crowd control"

I remember speaking about basic "crowd control" techniques here: give your enemies some little puny dummy fields to break, keep them busy with some specific portals (leveraging their ownership-related and battle-related ego) and they will be lured away from the real winning moves.
And again, with Resistance agents out here, it proved to be pretty easy to do and pretty effective.
I've recently had the opportunity to do that again: it all culminated yesterday when we successfully completed the umpteenth cell-dominating operation, prepared and performed by my faction-mates while I kept a couple of opponents distracted.

In the last few days, I've been repeatedly attacking towns around mine, creating several <=50 kMU fields and insisting in capturing and defending specific portals, which led the opponents into wasting time trying continuously to tear them down and retaliate against me.
While I kept this struggle raging, I've been keeping an eye on the preparation of the main operation... I was happy to see my faction-mates planning and organizing everything undisturbed by opponents who were cluelessly focusing on me.

Yesterday night I set off for the jillionth attack to vaporize almost all blue MU in a nearby city and to create my jillionth little field, a little above ~8 kMU, just to "stay in the limelight" and keep the enemy eyes focused on me.
Screenshot of that little field is here on the left:
• top side: 13.4 Km (8.32 mi)
• right side: 9.32 Km (5.79 mi)
• left side: 19.6 Km (12.17 mi)
Created at 10:13 PM CET, as of now (10:30 AM CET) it's still up, two checkpoints covered (02:00 AM CET and 07:00 AM CET).
Then I spent the rest of the night with other friends of mine and eventually went to bed after a quick clear-up of a couple of remaining blue portals on the way back home.

I woke up at 02:00 AM CET to see the cell-dominating masterpiece from my faction-mates, pictured here on the right:
• top side: ~41 Km (~25.5 mi)
• right side: ~67 Km (~41.5 mi)
• left side: ~63 Km (~39 mi)
• layers: 3
• MU: 780,000+
And this one is still up too!

Congratulations everybody, it's a honour and a pleasure to be a part of this team!

Night fielding, town and countryside

It's early Spring and I'm far from the chaos of big cities, the closest big city being Livorno, ~25 Km (~15 mi) from here.
In little towns and countryside, nights are quiet; the weather does not allow walks along the beach yet, no crowds of summer tourists yet and, especially in mid-week during normal business days, as midnight approaches you won't see (many) people around: they are at home sleeping or anyway indoor in pubs for a drink and some chit-chat with friends (for those whose jobs allow them to stay up a little longer, e.g. me), yet not on the streets.
Except for someone here and there walking the dog.
Silence, mist and the halo of street lights contribute to the eerie atmosphere.
A suggestive context, perfect for some unhindered Ingress activity: no cell-wide ops were planned for the night, so I thought I could go for some lone-wolf operations aimed to improve stats and AP.

So, after spending some time with my friends at the bowling center, the Ingress session started.
Planning, farming, attacking: the result is pictured here on the top-left.
The distance between the top-most portal and the bottom-most portal is ~33 Km (~20.5 mi), for a total of ~50 kMU.

Of course, I put together a playlist suitable as soundtrack for all the driving:
• Karl Jenkins - Adiemus
• Enya - Only time
• Goldfrapp - Utopia
• Tekken 5 - Moonlit wilderness

00:50, bed time, the alarm clock will relentlessly go off tomorrow at 07:20 anyway.

P.S.: Look, I know, I know, Hank Johnson is way much better than me at giving descriptions of landscapes, I'm trying my best. :D

[EDIT] That system of fields lasted two checkpoints: 01:00 AM and 06:00 AM.

Level 13

Not all mysteries are solvable, but the joy comes in the pursuit.
Hank Johnson

Gold Translator

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

One op, two checkpoints

Precisely, checkpoints were 10:00 PM CET yesterday and 03:00 AM CET today, and that is a total of roughly 700,000 MU x 2: not bad considering that a good part of that area is countryside.

In the process, we also destroyed a Resistance multi-layer field that was cluelessly created far from the checkpoint.

Operator: @Alive82.
Agents: @ToscJones, @MATRIXIO78,  @Usl, @Gasleo, @Werefarmer, @Arjov and me.

The Academy Awards: can I dream?

Practicing with photo editing.

I would not know who to vote for, though... ♥

Can I dream? ♥ @ingress @ionebutler @KarenStrassman @thecheekyscot @ChristinaSWren @rblumes @LauraBaileyVO pic.twitter.com/Car4Y8FIp1

— Marco Carrai (@MarcoCarrai1981) 12 Marzo 2015

@MarcoCarrai1981 @ingress @ionebutler @KarenStrassman @ChristinaSWren @rblumes @LauraBaileyVO Hahaha!! Delicious! Dare to dream, Marco! <3

— Katy Townsend (@thecheekyscot) 14 Marzo 2015

@MarcoCarrai1981 haha this is #awesome!

— Ione Butler (@ionebutler) 12 Marzo 2015