A fun part of geocaching is discovering and moving trackables along. Each trackable has a unique code and mission. The mission is decided by the trackable’s owner. Stardustzzz gets a Cachekinz trackable in the mail every month and posts a video of her opening the envelope. She then puts up a Twitter poll asking her …
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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 …
Challenge caches
Last summer on our way home from New Hampshire, as we were driving on Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania, we crossed into Jefferson County. I immediately started to looking to see where there might be a cache close to the highway. We were running low on gas and we were hoping to get back to Indiana …
Palindrome day
Last Sunday, Groundhog Day, was worldwide Palindrome Day. It was 02/02/2020. As a result, Geocaching HQ put out a special souvenir to all who found a geocache on that day or attended an event. No events were scheduled locally, so I went out and found a pair of caches. Before caching, Capt TailWagger and the …
One goal reached
Wednesday afternoon, I had some free time, so Capt TailWagger and I decided to drive up to Michigan to do a little geocaching. I had last been to Michigan for a Festivus event a few days before Christmas. (You can watch a video from the event here.) In addition to the event, I found one …
#IHeartGCHiders
One of the things I love about geocaching is all of the great hides that are out there. Cache owners, or COs, often put a lot of time and effort into putting out great hides. Many of those hides are original to the area. Others seem to be a dime a dozen. Either way, the …
Burros, London Bridge
London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down, my fair lady. Remember that playground ditty? I do but not the rest. London Bridge was falling down, so it went to … Arizona. Yes, Arizona. I recall that as a kid hearing that London Bridge went to Arizona but never quite believed it. That was …
From zero to 10
When I woke up Tuesday morning, I had yet to ever find a geocache on the First of October. When I went to bed Tuesday night, I had found 10. Seven of those 10, by the way, were FTFs, or first to finds. Monday evening when I was at work, I thought my phone was …
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 