Starting out today on a new adventure with Granny Davis. This time my main goal is to finish up the Missouri counties and DeLorme pages.
This will complete my 5th state of counties and third state of DeLormes.
One of my goals this year is to get 26 finds on each calendar day (new color change). This is tough to do because I have to drive a long way from home to achieve this task. If I get enough today, I will have everyday since the first of the year complete, however, I have many more days to fill in...we shall see.
It has been a while since I have shared my story of how and why I started Geocaching. It is just a couple of weeks shy of the anniversary of my brother, CherokeeScott’s passing. He fought cancer with everything he could but lost to it in the end.
In January 2015, I was wintering out in the Cottonwood, Arizona area near our mother, MuggleMother. Scott was struggling with the cold weather back in Indiana, so he decided to come for a visit. The first thing he wanted to do was drive to Hoover Dam. Turns out he wanted to find a Geocache in Nevada. He had been Geocaching for several years. I was aware of him doing this activity and had even seen the smileys on the map he had shown me on his computer. At the time I was a very busy Realtor so didn’t have time to pursue it further.
That winter of 2015 I had nothing but time due to my unfortunate physical restraints. I made the trip with him to Hoover Dam and he proceeded to tell me all about the ins and outs of Geocaching. We spent the next 10 days of his visit Geocaching together. We even made a trip down to Tucson. He wore out pretty easily, so one afternoon when he was taking a nap, MuggleMother and I decided we were going to try it on our own. We found a couple and one of them had four trackables!!! I was so excited. When I showed them to CherokeeScott he warned me not to just toss them in a drawer and forget about them. (Fat chance of that happening). He told me with such excitement about a little white polar bear he had put out in Nashville, Tennessee. It had traveled all over the world and was still going! He showed me the map of it’s travels. That little bear finally made it back to the US and I was able to track it down at the GIGA in Cincinnati. I visit it places but I can’t bring myself to part with it.
Geocaching is the legacy left to me by my brother, CherokeeScott. I miss him and wish we had had more time to cache together.
Thank you for the hides and all you do for the game.😊