On Saturday, I went to Hatfield, Telford, Sellersville, and Perkasie. After my previous trip to the area, I was only half done with the 50 States series of geocaches but more because not all of those had been published at the time. So I went for the rest of the series and also found other minor collections of caches in the area. I'm not sure I can ( Read more... )

Sunny, 57-64°F. Today's geocaching trip was sponsored by Groupon! Well, not quite. What happened was they recently sent me a $10 bonus. So I scanned the whole region looking for a suitable Groupon deal to use that $10 bonus on. I found a $20-for-$10 deal at Hot Breads, a bakery in North Wales, so that's what I got. So the primary goal of today's ( Read more... )

Sunny, 50-55°F. I continued yesterday's tour of puzzle caches but today, I went northwest to Lancaster. My targets were the "Powers of 10" series and the "Lancaster County Quadrangle Challenge". Of course, I threw in a few more puzzle caches in between and did some traditional caches too, for a total of 8 puzzles out of 23 caches ( Read more... )

Rainy, 60°F. For the longest time, I didn't even do puzzle caches unless the solutions were fairly obvious. I figured I didn't have time to work out ciphers and such. The real problem was I didn't take a close enough look at those puzzles. Recently, I started looking at puzzle caches in the area and found that a good number of those could be solved ( Read more... )

I had major servicing done on the car today. At 176,258 miles, it was overdue for a timing belt change. Also, the water pump and seals needed to be replaced. And finally, a recall repair had to be done on the power module. So that took pretty much the whole day. There was some confusion on whether I would get a rental car as part of the deal. In ( Read more... )