On Saturday, I went to the LVGC Breakfast geocaching event at Borderline Restaurant in Bethlehem, PA. I ordered the breakfast special, which sounded like a simple thing but came on two plates! Probably a good thing it was filling though, because the group spent most of the day on a 4-mile hike on the towpath. It was fun. The group did two series of ( Read more... )

At one of the 12-12-12 events, a fellow geocacher asked me if I had any goals for this year. My answer was I hoped to get to 3000 geocaches this year since I was already up to 2935 at the time of the event. Who knew I'd get there by Saturday? Anyway, on Saturday, after doing an early bank errand and having the breakfast of champions at the local ( 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... )

It was a generally warm and sunny weekend with temperatures peaking at just over 80°F. On Saturday, I went geocaching in Delaware County and Western Philadelphia because I haven't gone that way in a while. Southern DelCo was actually somewhat of a mess with a number of closed roads blocking access to I-95 and a lot of backed up traffic. I did ( Read more... )

Sunny, 55-60°F. Yesterday, I geocached in Delaware County. So today, I continued further into Delaware County, along the Main Line towards Philadelphia. There were a bunch of new geocaches in this area and I wanted to see if I could get the 23 finds I needed to hit the 17,000-cache milestone. I started with 3 geocaches at Skunk Hollow Park in ( Read more... )

Sunny, 37-45°F. You'd think after finding geocaches for seven days in a row, it'd lose its charm, but no. I'd planned on hitting a Ruby Tuesday in the evening to use a coupon, so I figured I should try some of the more physically-demanding geocaches to work up an appetite. So I stayed relatively close to home to tackle the harder ones in Delaware ( Read more... )

Cloudy, 30-35°F. Today, I started with a few geocaches up by Exton and Uwchlan. The reason I did those two first was so I could take the Pennsylvania Turnpike over to King of Prussia and pick up "76 east 2" along the way. It took me a very long time to get to this rest area geocache because I don't ever use this stretch of the PA Turnpike. The ( Read more... )

Sunny, 45-50°F, although due to the short daylight, 9 out of the 19 geocaches I did today were after sunset! Since I've had enough of Lancaster for a while, I decided to do some geocaches closer (in a relative sense) to home. So I went geocaching in Newtown Square, Radnor, Conshohocken, Plymouth Meeting, Blue Bell, Center Square, and North Wales ( Read more... )

I actually had a turkey this Thanksgiving because I got a free 10-lb bird from BJ's Wholesale a week ago. At the warehouse club, I only had to spend about $25 on turkey fixings to get the free turkey, so that was easy. (In comparison, I'd have to spend over $100 at the local supermarket and that's only to get a discount on the turkey.) So I stayed ( Read more... )

Cloudy, 65-70°F. I took the afternoon off from work today and went geocaching with jackalopejess. Actually, the real point of this trip was to use a Groupon for Jimmy John's in West Chester. I may not be able to use the full value of this Groupon on my own but two people sure could. This Jimmy John's location is a hot dog place along US-202 with a train set in ( Read more... )