70 Days

I’m finally back in Kansas City, but only for a few days. I soon leave for another trip. This time, I’m heading to Dallas to spend my birthday with my family for the first time in four years. I’ve finished up a great trip, involving camping, astronomy, and geocaching. I’ve got some stories to tell. But while I unpack and get a bit more organized, albeit temporarily, I’ll just do a quick update today.

My trip results in around 70 + caches overall. I survived the hardest part of keeping my streak up and am now at 70 days in a row of caching. Only 18 more days until students return to school, and my goal is officially met.

Since beginning my streak, I’ve found 351 caches. And right now, I only need 104 more to reach 2000 finds. Cachestats predicts me reaching that by the end of August. Can I do better?

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Three Weeks

I am now past the three week mark for my streak with 22 days and going strong. The last few days have been interesting as the weather created some fun experiences. On to the update.

GPS Adventure Maze Review

This past Saturday, I made a trip up to Davenport, IA to visit the GPS Adventure Maze that has been touring the country.  I chose that day for two reasons.  One, another local cacher was looking to get a group together to go visit it.  Two, because that cacher told me there was an event going on that day too.  So, after a long drive up there, I finally got to see what all the hype was about.  Let’s start with an overview.

Matching My Record

Back in 2007, I set a record of 12 days in a row of caching.  Today, after finding three webcams, I met that record.  Now, about the fun webcams…

My Weekend

I’m going to keep this post quick. This weekend, I traveled up to Davenport, IA to visit the GPS Adventure Maze and attend an event there. I picked up WebScouter.’s vehicle and met him up there (he flew in from a job), and we traveled back together.

Obviously, the big thing was attending the maze…a great experience. I also got to meet Shauna Maggs, who (if I’m getting my info correct) is the Director of Marketing for Groundspeak. I also walked away with two free coins and a purchased Maze coin. One of the coins was a Groundspeak Lackey coin that I got from Shauna in exchange for some path tags she didn’t have yet.

There was one other big thing that we did, that I will delve into tomorrow. With the GPS Adventure Maze having it’s own cache icon, and after looking through the available caches in Davenport, I mentioned an idea to WebScouter. when I arrived. He thought it would be a fun goal to achieve. AND WE COMPLETED IT! The goal…to have a well rounded day. More on that tomorrow.

Day 9 – 11 caches
Day 10 – 9 caches
Total days of streak – 10 days
Total caches during streak – 62

TripCyclone