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 [...]
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 [...]
In honor of my friend Jenny’s 100th Cache Find, I custom built a cache and stashed it at the Racoon River park. Very pretty views — the sound of the birds singing and water ebbing. Such a nice serene place only 15 minutes from home and 15 minutes from downtown Des Moines. This was the [...]
Jen and I out for a quick lunchtime cache. This one located right in the heart of downtown Des Moines – yup right next to the state capital building. I had found this one a few days ago, which reminds me, sure enough just as I’m putting this cache back in it’s spot, I see [...]
Thanks to Jen for the fantastic title of this cache adventure! Love ya – B out! Well, this is the last one I had to find to get all the clues for the Shape Shifters Mystery geocache series. I must have driven by this cache 6 times and 6 different days and times and never [...]
Such a nice day today, had to get out this afternoon, so I looked up a difficulty level 2 and a terrain level 2. I just bought some really sweet New Balance hiking shoes and wanted to put them to the test. Let’s go! Well, the path started from a park trail, hum, seems relatively [...]
Second cache on our lunchtime treasure hunting adventure, called Fortress of Solitude. *insert spooky music here* The GPS is right on pointing to this one’s location, so we bound out of the truck down to the spot. Jenny starts searching aroud the base of the structure and I sit down. It’s a nice little quasi-bench. [...]
So, met up with Jenny for some caching yesterday. Both of these were level 2 in difficulty, so we had to put our big girl game faces on. Drive up to the first one, jump outta the truck and the GPS was bouncing all over the place….is is left…no wait right…ooops left…right again. Grr! There [...]
Went out geocaching yesterday late afternoon around Racoon River, Iowa. What I thought was going to be a 2 mile hike turned into a 6 mile hike. Yeah. Sometimes that happens. ha! I started out on the path and went out the very edge of one peninsula only to find that I still had a [...]