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To commemorate our family’s 20 years of geocaching, we put out 20 caches for release on 5/18/2024. Can you find them all?
We began geocaching in May 2004, invited by BooBooBee’s dad because GC.com and Jeep had teamed up for a promotion that offered a chance at winning a Jeep. At the time, we were driving a ’79 CJ-7 she’d built with her dad long before the arrival of our little ’cachers. It was worth a shot to enter the giveaway. I found my way to the website, then, using just the map and local knowledge, our preschoolers and I found our first. And we were hooked!
Geocaching has provided us a shared activity we’ve enjoyed as we traveled the states and beyond. At times, we felt the pull of the numbers game, but other family activities quickly replaced our hunting time, so we focused our finds on more purposeful targets. Geocachers around the world helped us find interesting, educational, even awe-inspiring locales we likely wouldn’t have found (and enjoyed) without the game.
Now the kids are grown, BooBooBee has picked up the pace on hunting, and we’ve really appreciated the new life breathed into our shared game by relative newcomers Dr. Grackle, Rhono, PokiPowers, LisaWisa, and Chummyfungus. to name a few. Some have really upped the game with puzzles and gadgets.
While far less creative, this 20th Anniversary series aims to give them a bit of a hunt to add to their numbers game in scenic settings while also, we hope, providing some smiles along the way.
Happy hunting!
CONGRATS TO I_Kitten, Arisokittens and PokiPowers for the FTF along this trail! Thanks for playing along!