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  • Geocaching – Too Many To Tell

    Berkeley, California, USA Since starting our little caching hobby, we’ve just moved too quickly to make sense of keeping a running journal of our caches outside of Geocaching.com – yeah, I know, I should have seen that coming.  Sheesh. But be sure to check out my Geocaching page for info on caches we’ve hidden!

  • Geocaching – The Berkeley Fire Trail

    Berkeley, California, USA Caching with Andrew and Jon Clark to introduce them to the hobby/sport. Caches Found: GCYYK7: Strawberry Canyon 2: The Connector GCYYM3: Strawberry Canyon 3: The Grove GC15N5Z: Rocks

  • Geocaching – PoppaBob’s Introduction

    Laguna Beach, California, USA Once we landed in California, we got PoppaBob out of the house an found a cache in the most perfect location.  Along a common pathway which we all enjoy walking.  With three GPS units we were quick to pounce on this cache in a Very public place. Cache Found: GC1WXYC: Mimi…

  • Geocaching – The Old Pueblo

    Tucson, Arizona, USA Just to keep our selves busy, we went for an evening walk and then a morning adventure with friends and family.  A few in the park and a few on the University campus just before a delicious breakfast at Joels.. now that’s the REAL cache! Caches Found: GC1XQCQ: CWB-Himmel Park Library GC1XTZP:…

  • Geocaching – Holly’s Pueblo Adventure

    Pueblo, Colorado, USA We drove down to Pueblo for a short stay with Holly before we left town and decided instead of her trying to entertain us, we’d take her out and explore the campus and Pueblo.  This turned out to be a perfect venue for a short visit and a lunch break in the…

  • Geocaching – Day 2. Fer Reals!

    Geocaching! After some exploration yesterday we really took hold of this new game/hobby.  So today we got serious, loaded up the GPS with new locations, and not only found eight more easy caches (because we’re still learning) but planted our very own here in town!  We put together a cool looking, twine wrapped, film-canister with…

  • Geocaching – Rolling with Anna

    Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Bridge Town – that’s about halfway through the day, along the river walk and on our way to the RIVERSIDE cache in Colorado Springs, CO. Caches Found (day 1): GC19453: X – Show You Mine GC19454: X – Show Me Yours GC1VKWM: A Heavy Cache GC1DKMH: Urban Trails – Sinton Trail…

  • Geocaching – First Attempts

    GC1jnam – FOUND IT! Our first geocaching experience goes, well, well! I visited www.geocaching.com, downloaded some spots (little treasure chests on my garmin) and jumped into the car. I don’t have any street maps on my machine so it was all by cardinal directions, yeah, bad ass. But once we were out of the car…

  • Geocaching – Getting Started

    It wasn’t Tuesday.  I think it was a Saturday.  It was straightforward.  I connected my brand new GPS to  my computer, downloaded a few way points, and put the GPS in my pocket.  About three hours later, after we’d done our errands for the day, I pulled out the shiny new dodad and looked for…