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Friday, July 31, 2009
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
A Dozen Geocaches In The Area
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Great TB Hotel
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Large Geocache Turns Out To Be A Big Disappointment
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Yes There is Greenery in Urban Geocaching
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Todays Geocaching Festivities
Well now that it is official and I am making GeoSnippits video segments for Michigan Magazine it was time to hit the road. That is exactly what I did and have been stomping around Michigan all week. I wish that I had more time to do solid geocaching as I go but in truth by the time I add a few finds between video stops we have to move on to the next.
Today for example we travelled to the east coast of Michigan and visited my home town of New Baltimore and then moved north to Algonac. It was cool to see the old homestead and then watch the freighters going up and down the St. Clair River. Now we have just enough time for some dinner and get back to our home base. Then up early tomorrow to do some urban geocaching around the Detroit area. Should be adventurous to say the least.
Stay tuned and I promise to have more photograps of our finds and tricky geocache hides.
So much coming down the pipe and I am so geeked to do it. Thanks for being right there with me.
Monday, July 27, 2009
This is the Trail?
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First Geocache of th Day
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Another Favorite Hide
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Starting To Get Dark
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Very Impressive Geocache
Okay this is definitely one of my Michigan favorites so far. Huge old pine tree loaded with cones. All of these shown here are decoys which look like all the others.
One of these is hollow with the log book hidden inside. The only reason I found it was I noticed the white thread holding them to branch.
Very well done.
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Well it's noon the day after the big road trip to Michigan. Yes I had a late start but after driving for 17 hours Miss Geoness and I were pretty worn out. You know how it goes when you think you are going to be completely exhausted but are so wired up from driving you simply cannot sleep. I didn't konk out until around 12:30 or so. Anywho, I am currently enjoying myself at one of my old hang outs for breakfast, the Uptown Coney Island near Ann Arbor, MI. Absolute favorite dish, the Greek Skillet - complete yumminess; but I digress.
I hope you enjoyed following Miss Geoness and I as we travelled across North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and finally in Michigan. The meter read 954 miles when we finally reached our home base of Chelsea, MI. We ended up with a dozen geocache finds and wanted more but the overall trip just was too draining. The great news though is that we were able to pick up several geocaches in each state and added Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana to our geocache stats - W00t!
Next on the agenda is to drive up to Michigan Magazine Museum for tomorrows interview with Michigan Magazine TV Host Barry to discuss the new geocaching project that will be featured on their show. I am hoping the weather will cooperate enough to take Barry out to a few nearby finds and to discuss all the details. Then it is more road travel as I go to every Michigan town I can doing the video needed. Very exciting.
Also on the agenda will be going around with my brothers and their kids to do some geocaching. If I am lucky I might be able to make a GeoSnippits video with them in it. I heard that my nephews especially are big fans and I want to make them geocaching stars.. Will report the details as we go.
Well that's it for now. I will be updating the blog as I go so keep coming back from time to time and see what I am up to. It's going to be a whole lot of fun. Now that I am full of skillet and coffee it's time to get some geocaching in... Woo-hoo...
See ya out on the Michigan trails...
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Love Historic Geocaches
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1st Kentucky Find
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Our First Tennessee Geocache
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First Geocache of the Trip
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Road Trip To Michigan
Road trip to Michigan- On the road at 4:30am. Should be in knoxville,TN by 10 or so.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Geocaching Road Trip to Michigan Almost Here
Can't wait... Can't wait... Can't wait...
Sure leaving at 4:30 am on Saturday is going to suck but the road trip to Michigan is going to be a blast. Miss Geoness and I will be adding three more states to our geocaching stats and hopefully the extra four or five hours will be worth it. I usually take the NC, VA, WV, OH then MI route. Been there, done that too many times. This time we are going NC, TN, KY, IN, OH, MI route. Hey when it comes to geocaching there is never a direct path.
I completely expect some pretty sites and some fun time geocaching. That is just getting there. I will be stomping all over Michigan for Michigan Magazine TV and out GeoSnippits segments for them. Can't wait.
More to come and check often because I will be updating this blog, my twitter account and Loopt accounts showing my last known gps coords. that will be going on all next week. Stay tuned.
You can find my latest tweets and loopt statuses on the lower right side of my blog. See you there.
My main blog: http://headhardhat-geocache.blogspot.com/
Monday, July 20, 2009
What a Splendid Sunday Geocaching
It's mid July in North Carolina and this summer has been quite a warm one. For the past six or seven weeks we have been in the 90s with some pretty air chewing thick humidity. Not the greatest weather for geocaching. Sure I went out a few times but when it is hot like this it drains you fast. It is the price we pay here in Raleigh for no snow shovelling during the winter.
So when a day like yesterday comes along you power up the GPSs and go geocaching. The sun was out and the temps in the mid 80s. A slight breeze made it even more desirable so off we went. There was Miss Geoness, GeoPuppy Emily and myself on an afternoon trip to Rocky Mount, NC. I was excited about this because we never cached there before. I expected to get about 30 or so finds if everything went well. Now the one unknown factor was the pooch. She never went on a long trip before let alone geocaching for an extended period of time. I really didn't know how she would react.
We left about eightish and after the two hour trip we were at the first geocache. It was a regular in a wooded area. I was amazed how she (Geopuppy not Miss Geoness) just plowed in front of us into the pine needles and seedling trees. After a short trip we found the cameoed lock-N-lock box and back into the car for the next. The more we found the better she seemed to like it. Couldn't tell if it was because she was outside or that we were looking for "stuff".
All in all we found 35 geocaches and DNFd on four. The majority this time were micros with a combination of bison tubes, key holders and a couple of unique magnetic patches with the logbook on the magnet side. It was a day full of geocaching goodness. Good Times.
Why Do I Let These Things Get To Me?
This scenario has happened to me twice now and I wonder to myself why I let the situation itself get to me? The first time was up in Oxford, NC a few months back. I was at a local fast food parking lot heading for my car when I was approached by a guy in his upper 50s or so. He was driving a beat up old truck and asked if I had any money so he could get home to Virginia because he was almost out of gas. I didn't have any money and said I couldn't help. He drove off with out a word and for a moment it dawned on me that I could have offered to fill up his gas tank at the gas station across the street. I actually felt terrible that I could have helped someone and failed to think fast enough for a solution. I really felt bad and the situation haunted me for some reason.
Then yesterday while geocaching a couple of guys in their young 40s drove up to me in another beat up truck. The one guy gave a similar story that they ran out of cash and needed some money to make it about an hour or so from where we were in Rocky Mount, NC. I again did not have any cash but offered to do the fill up at the gas station about 500 feet behind us. They did not say a word and drove up the road. I was surprised that they did not turn around to go to the station but just kept up driving. What the heck? I actually went to the station for about 10 minutes thinking they would just turn around and come back- nothing?
So long story short am I fool hardy enough to believe that people needed help and I failed to do the right thing or are there just a host of drive by begging going on and that is the latest ploy?
I don't want to give up on people because there ARE people out there that get into situations they need help but then again there are those who wish to make a quick buck. I will continue to wait for those in need but also keep an eye out for the others as well. Lessons learned.
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