Good evening everyone and welcome to a new weekly feature that I will be working on, Cache Grab. The family has taken up geocaching as a hobby, so I thought that once a week, I would recount our adventures, misfortunes and victories as we take on the challenges of geocaching.
For any Muggles not familiar with geocaching, it is basically a high tech treasure hunt where you use GPS to track down hidden caches of goodies. People will sometimes take or leave swag as well as move Geocoins and Travel Bugs from location to location. For additional information visit www.geocaching.com and learn all about a very enjoyable pasttime. Quite a few of the caches are kid friendly and Liam and Luke are really enjoying visiting new parks and trails around the city.
So Tuesday morning, before the wife had to go to work, we set out to find our first cache. A nice, kid-friendly location that was close to home for us. After a minimal amount of time wandering through the park we achieved victory. A box full of goodies for Liam to check out. This isn't so bad, I think we're getting the hang of it. Since Wednesday is the wife's day off, we planned to spend the afternoon out hitting some caches and enjoying the weather. So off we head to walk the dogs, you know work before play and all. Well wouldn't you know it there's a cache hidden right in the neighborhood we are walking dogs in. Okay troops let's get this one. So after wandering around for quite a while and getting ready to call it quits, we meet Chuck. Chuck is a very nice elderly gentleman who pointed us in the correct direction to find our cache. That was a very well hidden micro cache. Once that was all said and done, we ended up at a nearby park for a mile and a half hike to the cache site. Along the way we lost one of Luke's socks, later recovered on the way out of the park, were buffeted by hurricane force winds, and stomped through a marshy grassland in flip-flops but ultimately the cache was located. Inside were quite a few interesting swag items as well as a couple of Travel Bugs. We left everything as it was and hiked our way back out to the car. Everyone was thoroughly exhausted, but ready for more adventures.
This week's successful trips:
1. Blackhawk Park
2. Simply Simple
3. Leopold Legacy: January
Let me finish up my cerveza and the remnants of our grass-fed beef burgers to wish ou all a fine evening. So as I sign off, here's to a Happy Cinco de Mayo and I'll catch you next week for another installment of Cache Grab.
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