Sunday, May 11, 2008

Caching weekend

Well last weekend was a non caching weekend, so this turned into a pretty good weekend of caching. On Saturday we did the WWFM GC1BFR8 New Mexico event. We met in Uptown Albuquerque, a new shopping area and for 5 minutes we froze in place. We got a lot of looks like we were crazy, but we had a great time. Some people were heard to ask if we were protesting something. We just smiled and laughed.
The New Mexico Geocaching Association recently placed caches in each of the 34 State Parks. This went along with the year before when a cache was placed in each county as a challenge. Well we've found 10 or 11 of the County Caches but none of the new State Park caches. So after the event we went and found the one that is closest to Albuquerque, okay it's in Albuquerque, GC1ACFY is at the Rio Grande Nature Center. I of course chose a time when there were muggles everywhere, and made the cache harder than it had to be. But we made the find and at least have one of the State Park Caches down, 33 to go.
Mother's day today, and none of us wanted to stick around the house. Our first mother's day without Chris and staying at home would not have been good. So we went for a ride and bagged 8 more caches. Several of these are at locations that have been used in films and TV series. There are 9 in the series, we had previously found 3 of them, and today added 5 more. Yes that's right, there was a DNF in there. We also got a second to find, we were hoping for the first of course, but found out there was another group coming in the opposite direction and they beat us to it. Still 8 caches in a few hours, and most importantly some very good family time made for a nice day. I went back and looked at Google Earth and realized that there were several we could have looked for on the return part of our trip, but it's not like we won't be there again. Going through the Jemez mountains to Los Alamos is one of our favorite drives.
For Team Mopigeon, it was a good weekend of caching.


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