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 …
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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 …
366 grid complete, now what?
I did it. I found a cache Wednesday to complete my 366 grid. I have officially found a geocache on every day of the year, from January 1 to December 31, including February 29. I found GC50JZO I Wanna Walk Like You Challenge. I had completed the challenge some time ago, but just found the …
Another month down, one more to go
I began the year with a goal of completing my 366 grid. That is, find a cache every day of the year, including 29 February. I don’t recall if I needed to find a cache in January, but I know the whole family (three of us, plus Capt TailWagger) loaded into the car and drove …
Geocaching in Amish country
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is often the place most people think about when the Amish are mentioned. The Harrison Ford movie “Witness” took place in Lancaster, I believe. Although Lancaster is home to America’s largest Amish population, it’s certainly not the only one. Elkhart and LaGrange counties in Indiana have the third largest population of Amish in …
Cemetery geocaching
I have found Forrest Gump’s grave. You remember Forrest. He was a football-playing, running-across-the-country, Medal of Honor winner played by Tom Hanks in the movies. I found his grave while geocaching. I also found a monument commemorating racing officials who died in a 1978 plane crash near Arlington, Indiana. These are just some of the …
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 