geocaching

Bellevue Blackout

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 […]

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Fort Worth

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

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Peace Sign Series

Whew! 80.62 miles driven, 8 1/2 hours geocaching with JustMike & hydnsek, 43 puzzle caches* in the series, plus a couple of others along the way. *Puzzle caches aren’t at their listed locations (hence the puzzle), so no scuba diving of Lake Washington was necessary.  The actual distribution of caches looked more like this: Since

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Rocky Mountain High

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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Cachetastic

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

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