The main goal for Saturday was to use my birthday coupon at Chevys Fresh Mex. This tex-mex restaurant chain has closed a number of locations so the closest one to me is now at Arundel Mills on the far side of Baltimore. Of course, it's not worth going all that way just for a free dinner entree, so I made a day of geocaching out of it. This time, I ( Read more... )

The first objective of the day was to find "The Dark Lord". This is the final cache of the Harry Potter series of geocaches in Northeast Baltimore. I was actually still missing one digit of the final coordinates. In keeping with the theme, one might say that I used some magic to scry the missing info but actually, I simply took a guess and verified ( Read more... )

I actually don't have too many good areas left within the range of a day trip where I can get a good run of geocaches, but I thought I'd go make an arc to the north of Baltimore on Saturday. Most of the day was spent around the Prettyboy Reservoir area, where there were quite a lot of creative/unusual geocaches, including a black dog with bone, two ( Read more... )

The main goal on Saturday was to find a mystery cache to get the Put On Your Thinking Cap souvenir. The very first cache of the day, "Forgotten Bridge, Forgotten Code", which I'd been saving for a few weeks for this, came in handy for that. It's a simple puzzle about reading a piece of punched tape. Since that was the last of the five souvenirs, I ( Read more... )

Saturday's trip started with a cluster of geocaches in Glasgow, near the DE/MD state line. Couldn't find "S2S" at first, so we skipped that and continued to the "Happy Birthday Rick" series, a set of 4 geocaches placed for Shorttrip's birthday a week ago. Shorttrip stopped by just after we were done with the last cache in that series to ask how ( Read more... )

First goal on Saturday was to visit Valley Forge National Historic Park to look at some dolomite rock formations and get information for the "VFEC2: Parking Lot Stromatolites" and "VFEC3: The Port Kennedy Quarry" earthcaches. I needed those earthcaches for the High-Five for the Earth souvenir, part of Geocaching Road Trip '15. I guess it's a good ( Read more... )

Saturday's trip was to Southern Delaware, near Harrington, to find the Delaware State Star series. It's a set of 50 geocaches, forming geo-art in the shape of a star, plus a bonus cache in the center. Those were mystery caches, so once you solve them, the actual caches were along a few roads in that area. Another notable cache of the day was "Pined ( Read more... )

This weekend was probably the peak of snow accumulation for the season. I went to the Quakertown and Saucon Valley area on Saturday and Lehigh Valley on Sunday, and the snow was pretty much knee-deep everywhere with some snow drifts up to waist deep. The worst part was the snow was semi-frozen so it was like walking on ice but falling through it on ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I went to the "12-13-14" event in a strip mall parking lot in Deptford. We had donuts and conversation. Unfortanately, much of the conversation was griping about the impending NJ State Parks policy on geocaches, which is too restrictive (according to nearly every NJ geocacher I've spoken with) and does not grandfather existing caches. ( Read more... )

Saturday was a rainy day, so I decided to do some puzzle caches around Norristown and Conshohocken. These were puzzles that I'd worked on at home. The actual cache finds were pretty easy, so I could do those while dodging raindrops. Well, not all were easy. "A Million Little Fibers" required a careful search among rocks. Then I was surprised to ( Read more... )