We're now multi-state cachers!

Just a quick shout out to let everyone know that we've now collected caches in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia whilst we drove to a car show in Fort Hunt, Virginia.  Unfortunately, the car show had been cancelled approximately 15 minutes AFTER we left Pennsylvania, so that part was a bust... but what else are cachers to do??? GEOCACHE! We hit some caches in each state and decided to visit Mt Vernon, since neither of us had been there.  What a beautiful area! We'll have to go back another day to take the full tour and appreciate everything.

Boy, that's one BIG chair!

Wow! On our way to DC on Saturday (for the car show that wasn't...) we made several "pitstops" along the way... of course! This was one of the virtuals I'd added to our list of "quick grabs" and were quite surprised by the view! This was in a well, lets just say... not the NICEST part of DC, so Al ran out of car quickly to gather the information needed as I snapped a quick pic from the car and off we went! Never thought I'd see a gigantic dining chair!

The Leaning Tower of Trees

The other weekend we were caching in the area and went to this cemetary.  The cache had us stumped before, more due to GPS not settling down than anything... even though, yes we WERE caching in the dark the first time out there! We hadn't noticed during the first attempt at this cache, but the second time we went back in the daylight and noticed that most of the trees in this cemetary are LEANING significantly! The cemetary is in the middle of a town, so it's not like it has wind gusts or no daylight to contend with. Which makes you wonder... just WHY do these trees LEAN so much!??

Cache Hiding Craze Continues!

We hit the TGIF event on Friday night to do some geo-chatting and some fun.  We got plastered by star stickers from the young'uns and had interesting conversations with the adults, so it was a very nice evening. 

Come Saturday, I wanted to place a bunch more caches and get some caches that had popped up in the area for the event that we hadn't gotten around to getting.  We went to historical sites, more farm country and to some cemetaries that we'd been DYING (haha) to place a cache in.  We successfully hid 5 on Saturday and got MOST of the caches I had been eyeing up.  Woot!

On to Sunday... the Danville area had sprung many caches over the summer that we just didn't get to for whatever reason.  Since the weather was somewhat decent today, we did some of the hiking caches and had a blast grabbing them.  Of course, on our way we hid 3 more caches! 

We made some new cache containers that were devious and fun to find.  We have several more in the works, so I'll keep mum on those! :D Can't wait to get those out for people to find! After all, hiding is ALMOST as fun as the find!

Keep on caching! :D

We're famous???

That's right! An article about my mom's adventure as she geocached with us is featured in the Daily Item newspaper out of Sunbury!  It is located in the Outdoors section of the paper and takes up most of the page, including pictures I took! WOW! Any of you who found this blog via the article or googling us afterward, WELCOME to our blog! If you have any questions about geocaching, feel free to email us or post a comment and let us know! Maybe there are topics that I should post about and share helpful information??

Cache Hiding Craze!

We have added multiple caches in the area!!! ToTheMaxTimes5 claimed many of the FTFs, but our favorite hide was Crypt Keeper and the honor of the first finder goes to StevensonsaSearching! Go out and find them folks! Great Pennsylvania farm country caches and spooky cemetary hides! There are a few more to pop up in Perry County within the next week or so too! Happy Hunting!

Take a peek at the caches we've hidden by clicking on the links to the right ----->

Another county turned purple!

Hooray! As we cached our way from Al's house to my house on Sunday, we decided to take a ride on the other side of the Susquehanna. We didn't add many caches, but we had two milestones.... one being that we turned Northumberland County into a "purple" county (meaning we've found at least 50 caches in that county) and we hit number 600! Although there really wasn't anything memorable about the 600th cache, it was found after dark. What can I say, as long as we have a flashlight we're game! :D So here's a pat on our backs and hopefully next weekend will be better. Lots of upcoming events to attend and look forward to... especially the Hokey Poconokey! Hope to see some of you folks there.. click on the link to the right----- >

Keep on Caching!

This weekend was wet and rainy! Did I mention we got 3.5 inches of rain?? So when it came to Sunday, I was ready to roll!  We are minus a cachemobile currently (update on that later!), so we hopped in Al's Miata and went for a Sunday drive.  There was a HUGE section of the map not to far from us that was yet to be "claimed" by geocachers, so today was our day.  We ended up placing 7 new caches today and finding 4.  :D Once all of the caches are published on http://www.geocaching.com/, I will add them to our "Active Caches" list to the left-hand side of our blog. 

Was I Blind???

For several weeks, our Harmony cache has been temporarily disabled while I was waiting for a nano to arrive.  Yes, I'd let myself get "out" of them! Silly me! So when some geocachers had told me they couldn't find the Stage 3, I dutifully went to check on it.  I looked EVERYWHERE and could not locate the dang thing.  I even went two evenings in a row to double check! Sadly, I couldn't find it and put a temporary disable log on it. 

Fast forward... it's now Tuesday.  Nano arrived Monday.  I get to cache location to place it and FIND THE ORIGINAL stage 3... right where it was supposed to be.  There is absolutely NO way it was there before, because I searched high, low and around that spot!

Sooooo my conclusion is that the people who rest here MUST'VE been playing a trick on me... right??? I'd hate to think that someone removed the nano weeks ago and just "happened" to put it back before I arrived.

Tucker's Scout Cache Completed!

The last few months Al and I have been working on a series of caches called Tucker's Scout Cache.  Over those last few months we've plucked one or two of the gateway caches at a time, some we were FTF, others well.... not so much! We finally checked off the last of the series on Sunday and are proud of Tucker and his scout project! If you are in the North Central PA region, please take time to visit the sites Tucker chose! Some of them are quite nice! Besides, who doesn't want to support a boy on a mission, right! 

In other news, I broke down and ordered a GPS off the web after we went "browsing" over the weekend at some of the local electronics stores.  The Garmin 260 that I'd gotten off Ebay with a loose connector was unrepairable.  :( Boo hoo! It would have been a great bargain! Now I've got a Garmin 260W coming to the front door sometime this week. 

Also, added two more Cachekinz to the collection! Grabbed the grasshopper and caterpiller Cachekinz.