And what a great cache to score our 2000th smiley on! It was an event cache on 12-13-14 called “For The Numbers: 12.13.14” The event was held down at Mission Bay in San Diego and it was an absolutely B-E-A-utiful day! There was food, folks and fun with 49 teams posting an Attended log. A big shout out goes to team habu! for hosting the event – they really went ab […]
With only days to spare, we completed our 7 Souvenirs of August challenge. We attended an event cache, logged our sixth and final cache requirement and were rewarded with the 7th souvenir – the Achiever. Some cachers, much more motivated than I, actually knocked all of them out within hours of the challenge. I checked at 7:00 am PST on August 1st and 74 cachers had already completed […]
Whoohoo, only one more to go! We knocked out the Sightseer Souvenir by finding a multi-cache. As with puzzle caches, I am not the biggest fan of multi-caches either. I mean, I have to hunt down at a minimum two points (with some multi’s having over 10 waypoints!) and yet I only get a GC credit for one smiley. I know, it’s not about the numbers, it’s about the adventure. B […]
Four down, I can smell that final secret souvenir! Today, I knocked out the “Puzzler” souvenir. It was a tough find, taking close to an hour from start to penning my name down on that log sheet. Here’s another confession: I hate puzzle caches. Just give me some coords and clues and I will gladly hike several miles and find a cache, but this ambiguity of puzzles and myst […]
Today was International Geocaching Day 2014 and everyone who logged a find today earned a new souvenir. This one took a little more effort than planned. I started with a DNFA on Magnetic, Green Power Box: Didn’t find it Well this attempt was not so much a DNF as a DNFA (did not fully attempt).I drive by this cache every day to and from work. I was saving it for a nice simple p-n-g. Yes, I […]
Now we’re on a roll, three souvenirs unlocked – half way there! To unlock the Collector souvenir, we had to find either a virtual, whereigo, letterbox or webcam. Being the over-achievers, SBlookers and I actually double tapped this one and found a cool webcam cache and an awesome letterbox cache. The webcam cache “Too Weird, Man” was, well, weird… but super fu […]
Alright, there is number two! I grabbed an Earthcache to unlock the “Nature Lover” souvenir. This was a cool earthcache in the heart of Sacramento. Arcade Creek Earthcache brings you to this little creek running through the middle of town. As a bonus, this cache has a traditional cache, benchmark and Munzee all within a 100 feet of it! Cha-ching! SPOILER ALERT: […]
We just finished filling in all 366 boxes in our Finds for Each Day of the Year grid. Yep, we have found a cache on every day of the year including the elusive Leap Day on February 29th! I noticed this stats box about 15 months ago, January 2013, and decided that the grid needed to be all green! A cache for each day of the year is all we needed and so we started. A cache on January 4th, another […]
Most of my friends just rolled their eyes. I am a bit of a story teller and who wants to hear a boring story? But seriously… I am almost died… kind of.
