Bellevue is blacked out. Behold! The Bellevue Blackout challenge is to find all of the geocaches within the city limits. Unlike the Delorme or Thomas Guide challenges, where one finds a cache in a region defined by each page of the respective road atlas (and does a lot of driving in the process), this one […]
Last week was my first time visiting Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex’s better half. When I had the opportunity to be outside (80°F and sunny, in April!), I wandered around downtown, letting the numerous virtual geocaches guide my travels. (All photos, except the USPS one, are mine. Click to embiggen.) This mural (a block over), is typical
After Wichita, I went to Boulder, to visit a friend I hadn’t seen since The Dark Ages, spend a lot of time outdoors, then head out again to an industry-related trade show. Colorado was a stunning contrast to Kansas: it was hilly, people were fit, and no one smoked indoors. Prior to leaving, I’d printed
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Crossroads is a bit atypical of most malls. For one thing, its food court is good. Feel like pierogies? Pad Thai? Kim-chee? A chimichanga? Hummus? Or just a Reuben? You can find them all here. Yet for as for many times as I’ve visited, this was the first time I’d noticed the art dotting the
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I found my 250th geocache just before Thanksgiving, a milestone that officially elevates this pursuit from being a “hobby” to a “benign obsession.” There are several categories of container based on size. The smallest ones are “micros.” These can be as big as a 35mm film canister – enough to contain a log, but nothing
Each exhibitor was set up with a rectangle table covered with the ANSI-standard White Top and Black Shroud (whose purpose is to prevent the table from looking as fugly as it really is). It didn’t work well with the man-sized pop-up poster I came with, especially in the spot I had right up front. I
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Day 3: Baker City to Halfway – The big epiphany today was that skipping the (now monotonous) breakfast meant I could sleep in. By getting on the road at 7:30, versus 6:30, I didn’t freeze my … um… didn’t need a jacket for the hour it was too cold. Now I just needed a step
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Last year at this time, Cacade’s Ride Around Washington was leaning towards the “Ring of Fire” volcano route. I’ve had good experiences on two of their other events, and was looking forward to riding this year’s. In every other year, the ride has open slots through June, plenty of time to figure out my
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