As most of you know we have been taking a small break from caching as we were taking car of two of our grand children (ages 4 and 8 ) for a few weeks. Well our three-week babysitting tour was up and Nana & I decided to get back out on the trails. Although we didn’t get started until just after noon we had a terrific day, 16 finds with only 2 DNFs – not a terrific day but at one point we had 11 straight finds.
We managed to find caches in Suffolk, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth. 1st cache was the only Usta B that we were missing from the series. One note on this cache (Usta B #9) – the road leading to this cache is a very well-known speed trap. The local LEOs are almost always hiding somewhere along the road. Be careful.
From Suffolk we headed up to Isle of Wight for the 1st two of a new series done by bdramatic (you see UMC series). We can’t wait for more of the series to come out as these caches take you to United Methodist Churches on the back roads – places you probably would never see in your normal rounds through the area. If you haven’t tried this series – do it – great caches.
We then headed into Smithfield and started another new series by the Va_Bunch – we did really good on the series grabbing 4 of the 7 aches in the series with no problems (we did have to use the alternate coords from the logs) until we got to the Orange and Indigo caches. It’s not that we couldn’t find them – we elected not to even get out of the SNAP-mobile because of the number of muggles in the area. Better to come back another day. We did have trouble with the last cache in the series “Red” but we will keep an eye on the logs and get back there soon.
We then headed back into Suffolk and into Portsmouth grabbing another 5 caches.
Caches that earned favorite points on the day were:
GCRYVH – Park 4! Cache by Legomanandhisboys – great idea and could take you some time.
Winner of the “Coveted Nana & Papa Cache of the Day Award” was:
GC2YNKT – You See UMC #2 – Uzzell by bdramatic – great cache and location ! ! ! Congrats ! ! !
One last closing note: When we hid SNAP 43 – Holland’s First we put a note on the page stating that if you e-mailed us a specific answer we would put your name in our blog. Now I know not everyone reads the entire cache page (and neither do Nana & I) but this was NOT a requirement – just a question. “alara” was the first cacher to send me a message with the answer to the question.
For those of you headed towards Geowoodstock – wish we were going with you – we will try our best to make it next year.
By the way – we found a really neat building yesterday during our caching trip – so here is a neat question for everyone… Where were we when we took the below photo? Leave a comment or drop us an e-mail.
As always – Stay Safe & Keep Caching.
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You guys are so inspiring! I’m glad you took time off to take care of other things. I’ve had to stop geocaching for a few weeks now, I’m trying to buy my first house, so it’s amazing how much Geocaching you two fit in! I can’t wait to get out and cache again, and hopefully me and Bender Oak the Dog will meet you all one day!
I’m really glad to hear that you both are back out on the trails. May you both have wonderful adventures in the caches to come. I always look forward to reading your blog. Thanks for the update.
I saw it the first time day before yesterday at Violet. Quite something. BTW, if you want help with Red, let me know. It was a quick find for me.