I spent all week in Albuquerque for a training, which sucked to sit through, but helped with the caching numbers. I picked up 9 caches at lunch during the week and added a tenth that I should have gotten the first two times I looked for it. That got me to 1300 finds which felt pretty good. With a three day weekend I knew that I should be able to add to that number so I went out on Saturday morning and had a bad start to the day going 2/5 in finds. In the afternoon I took Cachingwidow with me and we got 4 more. Then we went to see the ultimate cacher, or he would have been if he'd have had a GPS, but then again he did it without a GPS. Of course I mean Indiana Jones. I won't say it was the greatest movie I've ever seen, but it was fun, like seeing a group of old friends, and some new ones. I didn't want to see a deep meaningfull movie with a ton of message, I wanted to go see a movie that was fun and it was.
Today I went out in the morning and went 7/7. I like mornings like that. We went out in the afternoon with our dogs and looked for 4 more. 1/4 on that trip, not to mention one of the dogs tried really hard to put my sweetie into a ditch. So now I'm sitting at 1316 caches and still have one more day of the weekend to add to that total. I'm trying for 1400 by my birthday in July. I won't make 2000 by the end of this year, but somewhere between 1600 and 1700 would be nice.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
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.
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.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Random Thoughts
It's been a while since I've posted, but not since I've cached. I'm up over 1270 finds, added a few more in Arizona, and have continued working towards 1300. I've also got a new Cacher set up and going. CL4, is my cousin from Bloomington MN. She came down to see us for a weekend and helped Team Mopigeon get a few more finds. We went up on Sandia Crest and then on to Santa Fe. There are a lot of nice caches in Santa Fe, and we ran into some fellow cachers at the restaurant. May looks like event month in New Mexico, Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Roswell all in consecutive weekends. The first event of the month is the World Wide Flash Mob, and we are looking forward to that event.
I've been able to get some caches at lunch, but it's starting to become a problem to find any close to work. I've got all of the ones around the area so now I'm having a harder time getting to a cache and back in the hour I have for lunch. Of course around home that is not a problem.
Not a lot more to say about caching, No real big caching adventures, just good times spent with good people, and in the end that's what caching is about much more than the numbers.
I've been able to get some caches at lunch, but it's starting to become a problem to find any close to work. I've got all of the ones around the area so now I'm having a harder time getting to a cache and back in the hour I have for lunch. Of course around home that is not a problem.
Not a lot more to say about caching, No real big caching adventures, just good times spent with good people, and in the end that's what caching is about much more than the numbers.
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