Mammas, don’t let your babies grow up to Geocache

‘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”. Oh, look, [...]

Urban nano’s – snow, what snow?

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 Grand [...]

Florida Geocaching – Sign of the Catfish

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, it’s real. [...]

You take my life when you take the means whereby I geocache

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 feet [...]

4 for 4 – Christmas tree geocaching

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 here [...]

Persistance is not futile

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 on it only to [...]

Geocaching with dast deutschen Polizei!

[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 is your [...]

Ying Yang Cache – A little bit of this and that

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 [...]

Marathon cache and a marathon geocaching day!

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 follow [...]

Take a hike!

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 out at [...]