I’m getting a late start on my recap of 2021 and look-ahead to 2022. In 2021, I found 484 caches, my second-best year in terms of number of finds. In 2017, the first year I was a premium member, I had 567 finds. Among the highlights: Cached in four new states: Wisconsin, Texas, West Virginia …
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Goodbye Capt TailWagger
When I started this blog, I dreamed of our beloved German shorthair pointer going on many geocaching adventures with me and the rest of our family for many years to come. That dream ended Christmas Eve when Capt TailWagger crossed over the rainbow and went to big dog park in the sky. Capt TailWagger came …
Finding another oldie
When I listen to the radio, I consider oldies those songs from the 1960s. Others might consider songs from the 1990s oldies. In geocaching, I consider caches hidden before about 2005 as oldies. I restarted geocaching in 2015, so those caches hidden in 2005 and sooner were at least 10 years. A week or so …
A word about geocaching podcasts
I don’t know about you, but I enjoy listening to geocaching podcasts. Podcasts give me tips on finding caches, ideas about hides, places to go. Whenever they have guests, those guests add insights to aspects of geocaching I might not have known about. As far as I know, the granddaddy of all geocaching podcasts is …
End of September! Already?
Well, here we are at the end of September. Where has the summer gone? For me, summer really began in May when our family went to the Indiana Geocaching Spring Picnic at Charlestown State Park in Clark County. We followed that weekend trip to Southern Indiana with a week in Illinois. It was our family …
International EarthCache Day
I got an email from Geocaching HQ on Tuesday announcing this year’s International EarthCache Day is Oct. 10 and 11. Here’s what they wrote: “How do you best prepare for an EarthCache outing? You planet!“Learn more about Earth and how it formed through history on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11, 2020 in celebration …
My Labor Day find
A year ago on Labor Day, I went to Northwest Ohio to buy mums at a nearby farm and to find a multi cache. In 2019, Labor Day fell on Sept. 2, a day that was a hole in my 366 grid. You can read about that adventure here. Long story short, I did not …
Things are moving fast
How are you coping during these trying times? My mom is moving in with my sister. My dad died in 2011, and my mom has lived alone since. My sister lives in central Indiana just west of Indianapolis in Hendricks County. My mom needs to be with people. I think that’s best for her. I …
COVID-19 and geocaching
I am not a medical expert, nor do I play on TV. I’m just a guy trying to make the best of things. Friday I decided to archive a geocaching event for later this month after our local library system announced it is closing for a month. The event was to be inside a library …
Mingo Madness
Sunday night on the Geocache Talk podcast, Gary, Memfis and the Mingo Madness organizing committee made several announcements regarding the event, which celebrates 20 years of geocaching just up the road from the world’s oldest active geocache — Mingo GC30. Before I get into some of the announcements from the podcast, I want to share …
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 