Independence Day Geocaching! A generous dose of sunblock and I hit the streets for some urban caching. A beautiful day so thought I’d tackle an aptly named “Paul Blartt Mallticache”. This one’s a bit upper league for me with a 4 difficulty rating. While closing in to the coordinates I knew right away I was [...]
After wrapping up some work near Spirit Lake, I got out the GPS to find a few caches on my long road trip back to Des Moines. This is just a modern day treasure map, ahem, google maps versus Sanskrit cloth. My favorite find was this one at the end of a swinging rope bridge, [...]
Snagged a few geocaches along Hwy 169, including this one. We walked up to the area and as I was sweeping around a bright shiny tube caught my eye. Hey! It’s right here – “hiding” in plain sight. On our way south toward Gendler Park, GPS shows a cache in a little roadside park. Both [...]
Took a week to fly east in search of nice beaches and good times with the family and hey, they were up for going geocaching! *wink* Family’s first find at a home improvement store parking lot. Not pretty but we sure had fun doing the “Drunken Bee Dance” geocachers are known for….gps was bouncing the [...]
Was up near Ankeny volunteering with Easter Seals at Crop for Camp on a sunny Sunday when we got a mini break in the afternoon. I had about an hour and a half before we started end of event cleanup. Hum….I’m Craving Chocolate Sauce. Good thing I packed my GPS. The Outback Steakhouse across the [...]
‘Cause they’ll never stay home and they’re always cachin’, even on day’s like this: A race to the top to find this nano cache… hee hee, we’re the Outlaws: Gloves, I don’t need no stinkin’ gloves. Well, actually that would have been nice. Never you mind – on to the next cache titled “Willie Nelson”. [...]
Relatively warm yesterday….well, relatively being 31 degrees, I loaded a few urban caches in my GPS to see if I could find them downtown Des Moines. With urban cache’s I’ve got a chance that they won’t be completely buried in snow. Ok, let’s go! Did a loop around the Library to head back west on [...]
Quick trip down to Florida to visit friends and family – with a Geocaching adventure of course! In my little town there is a Veteran’s Memorial park on Main Street. All these years I’ve driven by here I didn’t know there was a geocache right up under this truck in a cammo’d film canister! Yes, [...]
Alright, so that’s not exactly how Shakespeare wrote the verse in Merchants of Venice, but none-the-less n’ere snow nor freezing fog shall reign the cruel maddness that is a winter gone too long without geocaching. Drove out towards Gray’s Lake / DSM Water Works hoping to find a few caches that were not submerged under [...]
Some quick pics from my house in Iowa during the Blizzard of 09. Let’s review. 14.5 inches of snow 40+ mph wind 7 degrees