Had a couple days off for Christmas but there were work days between those and the weekends, so it didn't feel like a long set of holidays. I hadn't been to Northeast Philadelphia and Bensalem in a while, so I decided to make one pocket query centered around Bensalem and see how many geocaches I could finish off in four days. That, and I had ( Read more... )

Sunny, 55-60°F. Yesterday, I geocached in Delaware County. So today, I continued further into Delaware County, along the Main Line towards Philadelphia. There were a bunch of new geocaches in this area and I wanted to see if I could get the 23 finds I needed to hit the 17,000-cache milestone. I started with 3 geocaches at Skunk Hollow Park in ( Read more... )

Sunday was sunny, 50-60°F. I headed out early in the morning to get to Wegmans in Warrington, PA, for the "Ducky's Breakfast and Fall Frolic, II" geocaching event. This is a two-part event with a breakfast portion and another meetup at a park later in the day. The breakfast part of the event was in the "Market Cafe" section of Wegmans, upstairs ( Read more... )

Cloudy with a bit of snow, 32-34°F. On Christmas Day, where can one find an assortment of stores that don't close for the holiday? Chinatown, of course. As a bonus, street parking was free this Saturday. Strangely though, the only source I found about free parking on Saturday is the Mayor's tweet. I thought this would also be an alert on the ( Read more... )

Sunny and 80°F. I was planning to attend a Social Media Day event this evening. Only problem was I could decide between two event locations: King of Prussia and Philadelphia Center City. So why not let the geocaches decide? The key idea was to start geocaching somewhere between the two locations and keep going to the next nearest cache. Then at the ( Read more... )

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