A Sendoff Before Geowoodstock X - 5/19/2012

If my blog posts seem a little slow as of late, I am blaming it on the changes to Google's Blogger software. :-/

[ pictures and a few more details are coming soon]

At this time of the year, I am loath to do any geocaching out in the woods, because I don't like the heat and the bugs.  I was happy on the this weekend to get out with my friend jbgreer and attend a pre-Geowoodstock event after doing a much needed recycling chore.

We met up at the usual time and had a nice breakfast before heading out to e-recycle some old televisions I had.  The recycling was being done at the University of Memphis and since a similar event had been held only a month before, we easily got in and out of the lot where the collection was taking place.

We had a little over three hours to kill, and I didn't have my usual set of detailed plans for caches to go after.  I blame this, in part, on my inability to adapt to the changes that geocaching.com has recently made to their mapping software.

Anyways,because we were close to the Memphis Botanic Gardens, we decided to grab the two caches on that property.  I had never been there before, so I wanted to take some time to tour the majority of the gardens after, of course, first beelining our way to the two caches.

 [ The entrance to the Botanic Gardens Visitor Center ]

 

After finding the caches, I cleaned up a bit in the Visitor's Center before we headed onward to Shelby Farms.  There are a handfull of caches in that park, but we decided to just get the one that didn't involve getting too far off of the trail.  GC MB 8C by CacheDroidz-H M Murdoch (GC39Z1E) was a nice find even though it was a bit of a walk for such a hot day.  It was good to visit the park, though, and we will definitely be back for other caches when the cool sets in.

At this point, we only had time for one more cache on the way to the event, so we chose The Secret Lane by tiger130 (GC2NRB5).  It was a nice cache that was not too deep in the woods, so we were on our way quickly.


A Sendoff Before GeoWoodstock X by Team SpiderMonkey (GC3J917) was being held on a section of the boardwalk at W.C Johnson Park in Collierville, TN.  We arrived at the same time as nelms3 and soon others followed.  I got a few pictures of the swampy area off of the boardwalk.

There was a lot of talk of the plans people had for Geowoodstock weekend, as well as puzzle challenges in various states.  It is obvious at this point, that there are a lot of locals far more into geocaching than I am these days.  We left the event at 2pm and headed back into Memphis and out of the heat.