Road Trip 2013 - Day 3

Not much caching on day 3 - mainly enjoying Blue Ridge. But we did find one easy cache while out grabbing something we forgot to pack: I never promised you a rose garden!.

Road Trip 2013 - Day 2

For day 2, we drove from Jackson, MS to Blue Ridge, GA. The first cache we found was still in Mississippi, and we stopped cause the name of the town is Chunky. This cache was actually hard, too - not a park and grab for sure! Was very happy when we found it: Exit 121.

We then found a few caches in Alabama, too.

Road Trip 2013 - Day 1

Evan and I just took a road trip that went through many states, and on our first day, we drove from Dallas, TX to Jackson, MS. We decided we wanted to find a cache in every state we drove through, so we started our first day with caches in both Louisiana and Mississippi.

The cache in Louisiana was fun for us because it was across the street from a club with the same name as our oldest cat. The cache was also awesome, as they put a decoy in the most obvious spot and we had to spend a few more minutes searching to locate the real cache: Traditional Cache In God We Trust (All others strictly cache!).



We continued the drive to Jackson, and after dinner, did some more caching.



The hardest cache for me was near a church, and was really hard mainly because it was dark out: Quiet View.

Night caching in San Antonio

After some introductory geocaching, Rachel and Nese got interested in the idea of going geocaching at night. So I looked up some night caches in the area and was sad that San Antonio doesn't seem to have as many of these as Dallas. I did find two fairly close together about a 15 minute drive away, so we headed out for those. Jason's sister and boyfriend joined us as well (for their first caches). So, we were a happy group of seven going to find these.



The first cache was a little longer of a walk and once we got going, everyone took turns taking the lead. We only had five flashlights, so this was careful going. However, it was well maintained and full of lots of goodies at the end. Starry Night ~ Night Cache.

The second cache was fun as well, although we had a hard time with the trail. On the way back, after finally backtracking and finding the right way, we found a missing marker on the ground, which probably explains the difficulties. Glow Worm Night Cache.

Caching in San Antonio

We spent Labor Day weekend in San Antonio with some friends, Rachel and Jason. We also got to meet their new roommate, Nese. After a party with some of Rachel's co-workers, we took a short detour and found a cache on the side of the road - a quick find and intro to geocaching for Nese: Cache with a Name.

The next day, we were looking for quirky things to do in San Antonio, and I found a few interesting places to go and see. In the end, only one was really all that interesting, and even though we didn't go there looking for a cache, we certainly found one: Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Museum. Barney is way nice and has so much history here. Pieces of the Berlin Wall, the Challenger, and seven lids of geocacher signatures :-)