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, [...]
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 [...]
Just finished the design of the treasure map that I’ll be using to teach kids how to use a compass on Earth Day at the Brenton Arboretum. I spent yesterday morning out at the Arboretum getting the bearings and marking which trees, stumps and patches of thick brush I want to hide the treasure markers [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]