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... )

This weekend had rather unwinter-like weather with temperatures over 50°F. On Saturday, I decided to do some of the MML (Maryland Municipal League) series of geocaches in Cecil County and Eastern Shore MD. I wasn't seriously attempting to finish the series and get the geocoin but I thought it'd be interesting to visit those towns. One of the ( Read more... )

Saturday morning was the MML Geotrail Kick-Off Event in Perryville. I was originally not planning to go to this event but since I was heading out that way anyway, I figured I might as well stop by and sample the light refreshments. This event was meant to be the launch of a new series of geocaches all over Maryland. However, I opted not to go for ( Read more... )

It was a hot and sunny (and then cloudy) weekend. The rain storm in the weather forecast didn't actually get here until Sunday night. On Saturday, I went hiking in Elk Neck State Forest and State Park. For years, I'd just been driving past this big group of geocaches on the peninsula to the south of the town of North East, Maryland. Well, Saturday ( Read more... )

Last Monday, I hit the 18,000-cache milestone. After this Monday's evening cache outing, I was up to 18,111 caches. So it was a 111-cache week. I don't think it was my highest one-week total since I've done a few powertrails, but for regular geocaching without taking any extra days off (aside from the Independence Day holiday), it is more than ( Read more... )

After a period of hot weather, it was nice to have a weekend with temperatures peaking at just around 80°F. On Saturday, I went to Bucks County, PA, to attend the "Bring your own Banana (BYOB), V" geocaching event at Tanner Brothers Dairy in Warminster. That was in the evening, so I had some time to geocache on the way there in the afternoon. I ( Read more... )

Cloudy, then sunny. 55°F. I ran out of heating oil yesterday morning so I ordered a full tank for delivery today. Which still meant a night without central heating. It wasn't that bad though. The indoor temperature never went below 50°F, so all I needed was a small electric heater. As they promised, delivery was this morning. 255 gallons at $3.91/ ( Read more... )

Sunny, 35-40°F. It was a lazy Saturday morning of a holiday weekend. I figured I'd just go for a few geocaches and then return home. Well, I did those few geocaches and it wasn't even noon, so I thought I'd do one more and then a few more, and before I knew it, I'd gone from Parkesburg to Oxford and straight through Cecil County, Maryland! Self- ( Read more... )

Sunny and 40°F this evening. I had some time after work this evening and traffic wasn't bad, so I went to the western side of Newark for a geocache in Devon Park.

Then I crossed over into Maryland. The first two geocaches there were roadside geocaches near small bridges. After those, I still had time. So I went to Fair Hill Natural Resources Area ( Read more... )

Sunny, 35-38°F. There was a new geocache at a strip mall in Christiana, so I went and got that first thing. Then I thought I'd go to Southern Lancaster County to find a few geocaches and return. I should've known it's never just a few caches. This ended up becoming a tour of not only Southern Lancaster, but also Cecil and Harford Counties in ( Read more... )