Today marks my 20th Geo-anniversary. I found my first cache on 8/7/02 but did not create my account until the next day. Two years ago I carpet-bombed Lake Wheeler Park where I made my first find with 8 new caches to celebrate the day. Last year I celebrated the day with 9 new mix-tape puzzle caches. This year I am hiding 10 2-stage multi-caches to represent 20.
Who knew when I found that first cache in a tree stump it would lead to spending nearly 1/3rd of my life chasing after them, visiting all 100 counties in NC, all of the lower 48 states plus Alaska, and multiple countries to find more caches. But even more importantly, I have met some of the most wonderful people all around the globe through this game.
Twenty is sometimes referred to as a ‘score’. Score is related to share and comes from the Old Norse "skor" meaning a "notch" or "tally" on a stick used for counting. ... Often people counted in 20s; every 20th notch was larger, and so "score" also came to mean 20."
Twenty is the number of moves (quarter or half turns) required to optimally solve a Rubik's Cube in the worst case.
Twenty is the atomic number of calcium and the third magic number in physics.
Twenty can be used as an index in measuring visual acuity. 20/20 indicates normal vision at 20 feet, although it is commonly used to mean "perfect vision".
A standard dartboard is laid out as 20 sectors.
The Kentucky Derby currently has a maximum field of 20 horses.
I-20 runs 1,539 miles beginning near Kent, Texas, at I-10 to Florence, South Carolina, at I-95. I-20 runs through northern Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia between Texas and South Carolina.
The Rocky Branch Greenway runs along the northern edge of Dorothea Dix Park from Pullen Park to Lake Wheeler Road. The park was named for a pioneer in the humane care and treatment of the mentally ill. From 1856-2012 the state ran the Dorothea Dix Hospital on the property as well as the Headquarters of DHHS. At one time the grounds stretched out over 2300 acres. Parcels were carved out to become Centennial Campus and the NC State Farmers Market in the 1980s. In 2015 the remaining 306 acres were sold to the City of Raleigh to be developed into the flagship of the municipal park system.
Dix Park is open seven days a week from dawn until dusk. Some of the features are an off-leash dog park, a hammock grove, soccer fields, and movies on the lawn. A frisbee golf course is planned for the future. Each summer a five acre field is planted with sunflowers. And it offers amazing views of downtown Raleigh.
Both stages of this cache are a short walk along the greenway from a small parking lot. The greenway is paved, but you must leave the surface to find the containers so it is not wheelchair accessible.