A little while ago, I noticed that "TAD" in the TAD geocache series stood for Trails Across Delmarva, not Trails Across Delaware. So I wondered if there was more of that series just across the border in Maryland. Turns out there were 3 more branches of that. Since the various snowfalls in the past week probably did nothing to improve conditions up ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I thought I'd go to Montgomery/Bucks County again since I had no problems last weekend, despite the snow. Well, the difficulty increased over the past week, apparently. The snow had partially melted and refrozen, so it's now hard. I had to be a lot better at guessing where the geocache was under the ice because trying to dig through ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I got a bunch of geocaches in Dover and then headed farther south to Millsboro for another installment of the TAD (Trails Across Delaware) series of geocaches. This time, the caches were along the side of Millsboro Highway. It was pretty easy this time around because I was familiar with the style of hiding, but I also took the ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I went to the "FSC 2013 Celebration Event". This is to mark the end of the First State Challenge. Since I completed this challenge a few weeks ago, I got a certificate of achievement and a pathtag. Because Uno Chicago Grill in Dover went out of business, the event had to be moved to Cowboy Up. This is an interesting venue. I noticed ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I went for the SRT Smiley series of geocaches along the Schuylkill River Trail, between Conshohocken and Philadelphia. Once I found all the caches, I ended up with a smiley of smilies geo-art on the geocaching map. The caches weren't actually arranged in the shape of a smiley. Those were all puzzle caches so the map shows the puzzle ( Read more... )

Since the weather was good and there was a proliferation of powertrails within two hours from home, I decided to see if I could do big cache runs both days of the weekend. I didn't think I could do it but I squeezed in 3 powertrails: Ted Harvey (14 caches) in Dover DE, TAD (49 caches) in Georgetown DE, and CMTPT (60 caches) in Jackson NJ. Of course ( Read more... )

It rained all day on Saturday but I figured I could still do some geocaches, as long as there wasn't too much walking. So I went for the Ted Harvey series in Kent County. These geocaches are all along a dirt road in the Ted Harvey Conservation Area. Only the last one, the TB Hotel, was beyond a closed gate and took about a 0.1-mile hike. I didn't ( Read more... )

Saturday was a rainy day with a bit of snow mixed in, but I went down to southern Delaware anyway for the "Who's your Valentine?" geocaching event at Stargate Diner in Seaford. They had breakfast buffet, which I got since it was the simplest option. I won a heart-shaped geocoin in the event raffle, which was a surprise since there were a lot more ( Read more... )

Saturday was a repeat visit to the Mount Laurel - Burlington - Florence area because I hardly got started on geocaches in Florence last week when I went to the event there. I was moving a bit slowly on Saturday so I'm still not done with the Florence area, but I got most of the caches in Florence Park, at least ( Read more... )

I didn't get the free turkey deal at Warehouse Club this Thanksgiving. I would have if I'd known but I noticed too late that the special ended more than a week before Thanksgiving Day. So I decided to take a two-day trip to Absecon (near, but not in, Atlantic City) instead. I had several reasons. Firstly, I'd been planning to seek the geocaches ( Read more... )