Geocaching is a blast.

A few days ago, Shelby and I went out geocaching. We had four we wanted to do but only made it to three. We found all three, though, and they were all nice caches, each offering soemthing different.

The first cache we hit was closest to our home. Dead wood is a cache located on TCC. It was a suprising hike. Well, most of the hike was following the road but the fifty or so feet off the path was not so easy. It is a very nice cache.




We found and took our first Travel Bug,.Blueberry Pig . A TB is an object that has a Travel Bug tag attached to it with a serial number. The owner of the TB decides where he wants the Bug to go and puts it in a cache. Hopefully, other Geocachers will find the TB and place it in other caches closer to its goal. The TB we found wants to make it to the Smithsonian Museum.

Next on our hunt was
Palmer Munroe Park, a cache located in .... Palmer Munroe Park. This was a nice easy walk to a nice easy find. This wasn't one of the caches that flip hides that make me want to cry. Still, it was a nice walk in a park I used to play basketball in when I was in high school. We took yet another travel bug, Southern Comfort, who wants to make it to the Golden Gate Bridge.

Here is a picture of Shelby at the front of the park:



The last Geocache we were able to do that evening was Chief Osceola. This is a microcache, which usually means a 35 millimeter film cannister. This one was a bear. We looked and looked and looked some more and finally found it just as I was about to give up. Shelby had already given up and was staring at the stadium, or the cars pulling up, or the sorority girls walking into the stadium, screaming and yelling the whole time. Microcaches are fun but they can be hard to find. Of course, this one is the hardest micro I have yet to find.

As you can see in this picture, it was getting late so it was time to head home.