It's that time of the year again when I get birthday coupons from nearly every restaurant mailing list to which I've signed up. So I picked the best ones of the lot and planned this weekend's trips around those.

On Saturday, I started the day with breakfast at the local IHOP. Then I went geocaching in Maryland because of the Greene Turtle coupon ( Read more... )

Saturday was supposed to be rainy with tornadoes and other nasty stuff. My guess was Southern Delaware would be the last to be hit by the storm since that was the case last weekend. So I decided to see how far down the state I can geocache before rain forced me to turn back. Surprisingly, I was able to go all the way to Lewes before the rain ( Read more... )

Sunny, 60-70°F. I had no concrete plans for today so I decided to just continue geocaching where I stopped last Sunday in Moorestown. I started with some hiking geocaches (by the Swedes Run swamp, no less) but switched to easier ones in the interest of time. From Moorestown, I proceeded to Delran, Edgewater Park, Willingboro, and Burlington. Then I ( 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... )

Sunny, 45°F. I started the day with two challenge geocaches near home. The "Delaware Top 10 Favorites Cache Challenge" has a prerequisite that you must have already found the top 10 favorited caches in this state before logging the challenge. I knew I qualified but I had to wait until I got home to post the proof. "Feast of 50 Fabulous Foods ( Read more... )

It was a pleasant weekend, generally. Both days were 60-65°F and sunny. I wanted this weekend to be low-key since I was a bit tired of long-distance travel and big cache runs, but we know how that usually ends up. On Saturday, I wanted to attend the "Cachers of the Corn II" geocaching event near Lancaster. So I went to Lancaster during the day and ( Read more... )

Cloudy, 70-75°F. There was a chance of rain today so I figured I'd go to Lancaster and continue with the Battleship series of geocaches since most of those are fairly easy and close to parking. It ended up not raining until the evening, so it was a cloudy, cool day and great for walking the Enola low-grade trailThis time, I near the Atglen end of ( Read more... )

Cloudy, 93-97°F. It wasn't as hot on Sunday as it was on Saturday but with the possibility of rain (which did happen for a little while), I didn't want to go too far. I'm not sure what to call the area I visited but it is the opposite of Northeast Philadelphia, so I'll go with Southwest Philadelphia. I started with some easy geocaches in the ( Read more... )

Sunny, 90°F. It was a hot afternoon, although not so bad in the evening. I went geocaching in northern Chester County and made my way northwards, cache by cache, until I was in Montgomery County, where I did more geocaches in Royersford and Pottstown. Pottstown has a decent collection of geocaches and I only had time for a small set of those today ( Read more... )

It was very Spring-like this evening. Temperature was over 70°F and so after work, I went to the familiar utility right of way area in Bear to find Power Lines Trail Spur Road by #8. This is actually the second time I tried going for this geocache. I intended to do this one yesterday but traffic on I-95 was so bad that I figured I would get there ( Read more... )