I was starting to get close to 200 geocache finds in the last months of 2007, so I was going to try to hit #200 before the new year.
By Christmas, I was short about 17 caches. During my trip to Texas, my Dad and I tried a
"power cache." One of the rules of hiding a geocache is that they need to be a minimum of a .10th of a mile apart from one another. A "power cache" abuses the rule some by placing a string of caches placed about a .10th of a mile apart for a mile... 10 caches! Pretty cool! We only found 7 out of 10... there were a few missing in that mile.
By the time we got back home we needed to find 4 caches... and the
procrastinator I am waited til
New Year's Eve to find them. Before work I grabbed a couple at a rest stop and planned to find the last two on my way home... except I worked late that night and didn't get the final two! So, no 200 for '07.
It's not about the numbers anyway right? What a way to start off the new year by getting number 200. Since I was only two away, I had 12 months to make it happen. I wasn't going to be waiting til next
Christmas either. We made a short move closer to
Pensacola for my new job and while looking for a new house, we had a new place to find geocaches in the process. Two caches and
BAM! #200! We made it! Hard to believe we have signed 200 logs since we started just a little over a year ago.
Happy New Year! Here's to many more geocaching finds with my family and friends!
I was starting to get close to 200 geocache finds in the last months of 2007, so I was going to try to hit #200 before the new year. By Christmas, I was short about 17 caches. During my trip to Texas, my Dad and I tried a "power cache." One of the rules of hiding a geocache is that they need to be a minimum of a .10th of a mile apart from one another. A "power cache" abuses the rule some by placing a string of caches placed about a .10th of a mile apart for a mile... 10 caches! Pretty cool! We only found 7 out of 10... there were a few missing in that mile.
By the time we got back home we needed to find 4 caches... and the procrastinator I am waited til New Year's Eve to find them. Before work I grabbed a couple at a rest stop and planned to find the last two on my way home... except I worked late that night and didn't get the final two! So, no 200 for '07.
It's not about the numbers anyway right? What a way to start off the new year by getting number 200. Since I was only two away, I had 12 months to make it happen. I wasn't going to be waiting til next Christmas either. We made a short move closer to Pensacola for my new job and while looking for a new house, we had a new place to find geocaches in the process. Two caches and BAM! #200! We made it! Hard to believe we have signed 200 logs since we started just a little over a year ago.
Happy New Year! Here's to many more geocaching finds with my family and friends!
