It was a 3-day weekend with Labor Day on Monday. I went up to Lehigh Valley to finish off more geocaches in that area. First, I took the opportunity to mail my passport renewal application since I noticed there's a UPS store conveniently just off one of the exits in Allentown. No reason why I can't get things done on geocaching excursions. This ( Read more... )

Cloudy, 60-70°F. There was a geocaching event on Saturday morning in Northeast Philadelphia but I didn't attend it because I didn't like that chicken restaurant chain. Of course, I could've attended the event anyway and not bought anything but I didn't think that would be right either. There's no reason why I couldn't find the caches that were ( Read more... )

Sunny, 45-50°F. I started the day with breakfast buffet at Old Country Buffet in Newark. Actually, that took pretty much the whole morning because I like to take my time. For the afternoon, I decided it was a fine day to do some walking, so I hit some geocaches in Western Chester County and Lancaster County. However, the only two that actually ( Read more... )

The actual purpose of this trip to Long Island was to do a mascot gig with Hi-4 at the Jones Beach Autism Walk, but I treated it as a weekend away from home. A mini-vacation, if you will. I started driving off from home Friday evening after loading the fursuit and some overnight items into the car. It was raining that night and I hoped the rain ( Read more... )

Cloudy, 85-90°F. I started the day with breakfast at Old Country Buffet. In retrospect, the dollar-off Labor Day coupon wasn't really that great but I thought it would be nice for a change since I haven't done an OCB breakfast in a while. Predictably, breakfast turned into a two-hour meal, which was alright since I didn't have much planned ( Read more... )

Sunny, 90°F. First day of the three-day weekend. It was a hot day but I decided to revisited the PPT series of geocaches on the Pennypack Trail in Holmesburg/Philadelphia to see how many more I could do. However, I started at Pennypack Park on the Delaware first to do the 5 geocaches in that park. "Pennypack on the Delaware Part 1" was a ( Read more... )

Sunny, 90-93°F. I was on holiday but it was a rather hot day and I figured I should avoid the shore crowd. So I decided to go just a bit north into Chester County and do some of the recent easy geocaches. How this little trip ended with a significant hike in Marsh Creek State Park, I'll never know. Since I was getting tired from the heat late in ( Read more... )

Sunny, 34-41°F. Email and phone calls again this morning. This time though, the phone call was important. I'd gone to on-site interviews the last two Thursdays and this Thursday, I got a job offer. The call was to discuss the terms, benefits, etc. So I start mid-January. The commute isn't too long. The office is only 7 miles from home and I know a ( Read more... )

Sunny, 45-50°F. It's hard to tell whether things went according to plan if there wasn't much of a plan in the first place. I noticed that all the errands could be done in the evening and it looked like a yard work kind of day, so I did that first. Filled another two trash bags with leaves and weeds. Seems like I just did that not too long ago! I ( Read more... )

Sunny and 85-95°F. Today is yet another day where the predicted thunderstorm didn't materialize. So I went to Exton and Uwchlan to tackle the "Surroundin9 the Castle" series and a few other geocaches. I saved the challenge for last today. "Paradise Lost 2" had not been found since the cache owner relocated it in March. GPS pointed to a spot next to ( Read more... )