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 …

Back-to-back big months

I know as I write this, there are geocachers out there who find 100 geocaches in a day or over the course of weekend. For me, a 75-find month, followed by an 80-find month is a big deal. They are the two most productive back-to-back months of geocaching I’ve had since January through April 2017 …

Some news from HQ

Geocaching HQ announced today that the 20th anniversary events in the Pacific Northwest, originally scheduled for August 2020 then rescheduled for August this year, has been postponed until summer 2022. I think this is a good idea. The coronavirus is still not under control. Billions of people worldwide still need to be vaccinated, including millions …

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 …

Happy New Year

Today as I write, it’s 2 January 2020. I am setting a goal for the new year to write and post a blog entry at least twice a week. I haven’t posted anything since October, and that’s way too long to go. Before I dive into 2020, I want to look back on 2019. I …