Fallen Hero

One of America's many heroes, draped once more in the Stars and Stripes.

Found at the cache Dickinson VonHorn. A great cache on a beautiful fall afternoon in October.

Cemetery Caching or Am I Just Weird?

Saturday morning I awoke and resolved to find my one hundredth cache. I was not able to get started until one in the afternoon and I was sitting at seventy-nine. It was going to be a real challenge to find twenty-one caches before I lost the day light but I was determined to storm the beaches and make a go of it anyway. I got off to a great start, finding five in an hour. My GPS glowed warm in my hand as I flew from location to location, a man on a mission. My lofty goal seemed like it could actually be within reach. In my mind I was already composing the photograph for when I would find that hundredth cache. Should I model feigned surprise? Heady triumph? Manly bravado? Well, whatever I would do, it would be epic, like my twenty-one cache day.

But then I came upon cache number GC2FJ7V, Saint George's Cemetery. I knew then and there that my goal was in jeopardy because I love cemeteries.

OK...that last sentence sounded a lot less creepy and twisted in my head. An explanation perhaps?

So What the Heck is Geocaching, Anyway?

In these days of economic woe, where a family trip to the local amusement park could potentially cost you the equivalent of a small down payment on a new car, it can be difficult to find activities for the entire family to enjoy that won't put a British Petroleum size hole in your bank account. Wouldn't it be nice to have an activity that could involve the entire family, be almost as much fun when you do it alone, that encourages exercise and a love of the outdoors, and costs a mere fraction of the cost of that amusement park trip (without the large crowds and sweaty lines too)?

Well...welcome to Geocaching!