Sunday, November 30, 2014

10 Years of Geocaching - 11/30/2014

Ten years ago, on 11/26/2004 a friend of mine convinced me to get out and try geocaching for the first time.

Ten years later, while I don't have quite the same exuberance I once had, still wanted to get out and hunt some caches this Thanksgiving weekend.

On 11/27, Thanksgiving Day, I hunted two caches, including Bridge over River Dry by hikerRon | GC4RHQ7 in Millington, TN.  I was a cool cache near a Veterans Memorial.  I'd been caching around the Wal-Mart across the street, but had never noticed this monument and "bridge."




On 11/29, I decided to make a geocache run into Arkansas, making stops at Marked Tree, Trumann, and Jonesboro.


Marked Tree was a great place to avenge some earlier DNFs.

This empty cotton field struck me as picture-worthy after hunting a cache in the Arkansas Hwy 463 Series across the road.


 There can never be too many Veterans Memorials.  The cache was nearby.

Stumped? by RememberingTree | GC5D1VW in Jonesboro was my favorite hide of the trip.


Along with a cache, the Jonesboro Farmer's Market had their Christmas trees out.


On 11/30, I visited the western end of the Vollintine/Evergreen Greenline to hunt Blue Man
by shottsy | GC5H0JA in Midtown Memphis.

The last time I was here, the "Blue Men" had been vandalized.  Today all appeared to be in good shape.



Sunday, November 2, 2014

Hot Dogs by the River - 11/1/2014

I hated to break my 68 day streak of not geocaching, but the prospect of free hot dogs was too great to pass up.  Saturday's event cache was called Hot Dogs -n- Not Dogs  by Team Synchronicity | GC5F591.  I made it down to Tom Lee Park just as the event was starting.  I was greeted by one of the hosts, shottsy, who it turns out knows my caching buddy jbgreer.


Plenty of people showed up both for the food and the free swag provided by Groundspeak.  It was a fun gathering in spite the chilly temperature.