Since June of last year, I have gotten at least one first to find on a geocache in every month. I have had months in which I had just one FTF, including July 2019 when I found my FTF on the 31st. So the streak nearly died before it started. In looking at my stats, …
Tag Archives: Fort Wayne
A bit of history
Capt TailWagger and I are thinking of putting out a challenge cache or two. We have a couple of things in mind, so I went on Project-GC to see who else has met the challenge. While I was doing that, I accessed my original geocaching account stats. In 2004, my father-in-law gave us a handheld …
Adventure Labs
Fort Wayne has many claims to fame. One of the city’s nicknames is the Summit City and there is not a mountain within 200 miles of Fort Wayne. It was the highest point on the Wabash-Erie Canal. You can learn about the Wabash-Erie Canal by playing FortIslander80’s Adventure Lab. I completed that stage of the …
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 