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Birthday Cache
When Abbey turned 10, our Aunt Terry had the fantastic idea of hiding Abbey’s gift like a multistage geocache. Prior to arriving at the party, Aunt Terry and Uncle Richard hid an item and a clue at stage 1. The final stage, the gift, was hidden in our backyard. Abbey opened a card which she…
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All About Geocaching Trackable Items
The very first geocoin we ever found in a cache was Kiwi Fruit – New Zealand Geocoin: We had very little knowledge about trackables/travel tags/geocoins. The only thing we knew was that we were supposed to move it from one cache and put it in another cache, preferably in another city. Unfortunately, we made a…
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Geocaching Misadventures
Every perfect geocaching adventure deserves at least two geocaching misadventures. For us, misadventures include not having a necessary tool, getting wet, getting lost. I would say that we’ve experienced more times when we weren’t quite prepared for the cache than times we were prepared. For instance, Karl has tipped his canoe every single time we’ve…
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International Earthcache Day
From time-to-time, geocaching.com will announce special events and souvenirs related to the history of geocaching. Today (Sunday, 10/12/14) was one of those days. If you fulfill the requirements, then GC will send an award or a souvenir to commemorate the day. We spent the weekend down at the gulf, so the Earthcache we visited was…
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A Local Adventure
I’ve said it before, but I don’t mind saying it again: Geocaching satisfies my childhood longing to participate in a Midnight Madness/Cannonball Run/Goonies type of adventure. The cool thing about geocaching is that we can find an adventure almost everywhere we go. When we travel, we query for caches that have garnered the most favorite…
Leslie Wiggins 