Vintage Post #1 - Cachers Gone Wild

My first vintage post, if 2008 counts as vintage. (Check out this discussion about antique vs. vintage if you have any questions about the meaning - http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Antiques/Antique-Vs-Vintage/400098219.) I was posting a blog on myspace, however since I am now a facebook devotee I don't visit myspace very often. I would like to transfer all my blogs over to my blogger account bit by bit, so I can eventually cancel my myspace page. So, every so often I will copy and paste one of the blogs here.


Sunday, September 07, 2008

Cachers Gone Wild
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Travel and Places

Well to start off with, I think I'm going to start blogging here instead of my blogger page. I don't think anyone ever looks at my blog over there. I don't blame them of course because I don't keep up with it very well.

Yesterday Jason, Mikayla, Eric (family friend), and I attended Mardi Gras: Cachers Gone Wild. We attended the event last year and loved it! We never realized how awesome this years event would be.

When we got there, we teamed up with Mohana and MacFarlane (caching names) to make our day even more fun! This year we were given playing cards with dares and a point value on them. We had to take pictures and try to get the most points in our photos. We sat in a circle with bare feet next to a giant rooster, kissed a bald stranger's head, and ate Mentos with a store employee while pumping a man's gasoline. I have to say that my favorite photo we did was the one where we stopped by a party and asked if we could use their bathtub. The owner wasn't home because it was a surprise birthday party for her. We finished with the picture right as she got home. We reentered the bathtub as her friends escorted her to the bathroom and we all wished her a happy birthday as she asked who the heck we were! The partiers loved it and were snapping pictures with their own cameras!

Out of the 70 teams, we came in 6th place. We had such a great day laughing and having fun! We even found some caches during the event as well!

8:21 PM

Our Trip to the International Space Station

So that this blog doesn't become a place to just document and update goals and resolutions, it's time to post about something else. So, how about writing about our future trip to the International Space Station.

Why the International Space Station? Well, what's the reason for most of the crazy things I do these days? Like...
- hiking for three hours in freezing cold weather at night.
- walking through cement tunnels under the road.
- buying snow pants for myself at the age of 36.
- lifting light post covers.
- taking on dares and documenting them in photos.
Those who know me know that the list could go on. They also know the reason for the craziness! GEOCACHING!

Recently published on the geocaching website was the cache furthest from home. It happens to be hidden at the International Space Station.

You can check it out here...

Out of this World Cache!

Obviously, we don't really have plans to visit the space station but it did make for a fun little discussion this evening.

Me: There's a geocache in space now.
J (Hubby): How do you get it?
Me: Become an astronaut.
Moo: No way! I'm not going to get it! Do you know how many ways there are to die up there?

I agree with Moo. I'm not so sure about going into space for a cache. We'll just have to stick to the earthbound caches for the moment! They are a lot of "phoon"!


"Phoon Bucyrus" cache found over spring break 2009

500th Geocaching Find!!!

Today Moo, my friend M, and her daughter, and I went geocaching in Akron, after having lunch at Whitehouse (Chicken... Yum!) We knew that Moo and I could find our 500th cache today. I wanted to pick a fun cache to find. It worked out well. We found one close to Derby Downs, where the Soapbox Derby is held. It was inside a sports bottle that was tucked inside a tree. Moo traded a finger light for a pin. So much fun!

Geo... what?!?!?

At the side, in my little about me thing you probably see that I have the word "geocacher." So, what is that? It's my new thing. I love it. I admit, I'm addicted.

Geocaching is the process of using a GPS unit to find containers hidden around the world, signing a log book, maybe trading an item or two, and rehiding the container for the next geocacher to find. After going home, cache finds are logged at www.geocaching.com and stats are kept to show how many the cacher has found. I started geocaching with my family about a year ago. We have now found 384 caches. My caching goals include reaching 1000 finds and finding a cache in each of Ohio's 88 counties.

Our caching experiences may be a source for some of these blogs. Here is an example of one of the logs I wrote for a find this weekend...

By the Brook
10th of 12 caches today. It was nice and dry when we found it, but as I handed our daughter the GPS and told her not to drop it in the brook, the log fell and tumbled in. I fished it out quickly and dried off the wet parts with the car heater. It looked pretty good when I replaced it. Sorry! TFTC!

By the way, TFTC means, "Thanks for the cache!" Thankfully the owner of the cache thought the situation was humorous and wasn't upset about the water damaged log!

So now, if I talk about that geo thing, you'll know what it's all about.