2018
This series is dedicated to the first 20 years of geocaching and celebrating the community it created around the world.
The caches in this series should be pretty easy finds. The fun part should be reading the fun facts and historical notes on each page.
As always, be safe and watch out for nature’s hazards like wild animals, snakes, poisonous plants, and stinging critters.
As you log these caches, please feel free to share any fun facts, trivia, or memories about this particular year.
In 2018:
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Four people in Prague, Czech Republic, were surprised by a strong sudden storm while searching for a cache in 4 km long tunnel. They were carried by the tidal wave for almost the whole length of the tunnel to the Vltava river where the tunnel ends. One woman was found dead in the river a few hours later. Six days later a second body, that of a man in the group, was found in the river. Two exhausted drowning people were rescued from the river suffering mostly from numerous bruises and blunt traumas.
Hurricane Michael became the strongest storm to hit the continental U.S. since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Starbucks announced that it would stop using plastic straws by 2020.
About 15 inches of snow fell in the Sahara Desert.
The average price for a gallon of gas was $2.79.
The average electric bill in 2018 was $117.65.
The Cleveland Indians announced that they would remove the Chief Wahoo logo from their uniforms in 2019.
The Winter Olympics opened in South Korea.
The cost of a 30-second Super Bowl ad was $5.2 million.
Will Power won the Indy 500.
Austin Dillon intentionally crashed Aric Almirola on the last lap to win the Daytona 500.
Super Bowl Champions were the Philadelphia Eagles.
World Series champs were the Boston Red Sox.
The Washington Capitols won the Stanley Cup.
NASA discovered twelve new moons that orbit Jupiter.
There were over four billion Internet users on the planet.
A hailstone that was more than five inches in diameter was found near Cullman, Alabama.
Black Panther was the highest grossing movie.