Jenny and I drove up to Ankeny, Iowa to Kidman Tree Farm to pick out a Christmas tree. We spotted a cute spruce with a sparkle in her branches so we took her home. Oh, you think that’s the whole story huh? Nah! We were out to geocache on one of the last semi-warm days [...]
Carol and I had been to this park 3 times already. Aaaaand, I snuck over here twice to try and find it myself. Couldn’t find it. Epic fail. Repeatedly. Name of the cache: Waterfall Sandwich. Size of the cache: Ammo Can. Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain 2.0. Meh, doesn’t sound particularly evil. But everytime we’d close in [...]
[Kirk drives his stepfather's Corvette toward a cliff. As he skids sideways, he jumps out before the Corvette falls off while he hangs on the edge of the cliff. The Iowa cop chasing him steps off his bike as Kirk climbs off the cliff] Young Kirk: Is there a problem, officer? Iowa Cop: Citizen, what [...]
The Pink Floyd cache! Rock on dude! Parked at the Gateway Market off MLK and walked up the path following the needle on the GPS: Ah, ha! Now you see where the name of this cache comes from. Yes the song is now stuck in my head. And now yours. No need to thank me, [...]
First day Jen and I have been out caching for awhile, so we def had to get back to this one. The past few weeks the Asian Gardens has had some rennovations done on it and we were hoping the find would be easier this time around. Beautiful oasis in downtown Des Moines, right on [...]
Middle of the day. Downtown Des Moines. Gritty. Hot. The smells of steel and asphalt assaulting the senses. We need shade. And we need it now. As is true with most of Des Moines, there are beautiful artworks in the weirdest of places. We steadfastly follow the GPS needle to this little concrete oasis: We [...]
The other day, after finding the bluebirds nest ravished by a gnarly racoon, I thought for sure they’d move on to start their second brood somewhere else. Bonnie and Clyde don’t give up that easy it seems , because just a few days later, I see them around the feeders and the birdhouse. Curiosity got [...]
Well, I hid another cache recently! I volunteer, as you know, up at the Arboretum and there was only 1 geocache there. What?! 1?! Now that is unacceptable! So, to inspire more people to visit the Arboretum, I hid a cache out there amongst the Oaks: As you can see, things are getting rather lush [...]
Ghost-like train rushing by a rural country road late at night. That’s what I like about living in Iowa. There is a simple, grounded beauty hiding in the ordinary.
Spent yesterday morning on the rooftop of the pavilion at the Arboretum. Temperature: 45 degrees. Wind: 20mph. Weight of pebble bags: 50lbs. No hot tin roof here! Brrr! The rooftop offered up these amazing views of the Arboretum which is leaping into spring no holds barred. Click for a larger version: As you can see [...]