I was a bad blogger in 2015

To say that 2015 was crazy is such an understatement I don't even know where to start. So, I'm going to retroactively post some blogs for the finds I made in 2015. Sadly, I got no where near my goal (I didn't even fill in January), and there are way too many reasons to go into. However, I would say that I did an EXCELLENT job finding caches in other states and other countries with all my travel.

Number of finds	38
Number of states	14 Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia
Number of countries	5 Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

For this year, I'm going to set some other goals that should be easier for me to achieve:

1. Perform maintenance on all of my caches
2. Find geocaches in Hawaii and Louisiana
3. Find a geocache in Jamaica
4. Get to 700 finds
5. Find this cache that attacked us with fire ants and poison ivy last time!

Caching at night in Dallas for Christmas

We started this habit of going geocaching at night on Christmas. This has resulted in some very interesting times (like these when I swear that last night cache was going to make one of us pee our pants).

This year, Fred requested a night cache, so I searched for one that I hadn't found and came across White Rock Night Cache, which I have to admit was a huge let down. It was short and easy and just...a let down.

So, we decided to try for a nearby cache and see what else we could do. This one has a fun name (Ice, Ice Baby) and it was a little harder to find once at the spot, but it was really a PNG in disguise.

So, we called this a night and played Rockband instead.

Caching while visiting the Bourbon Trail

We all decided that we'd take a weekend trip to Cincinnati and then drive down the Bourbon Trail (which meant I was the designated driver on this trip). This was also great for me as I got to find a cache in Ohio (my first and only!). We also got another cache in Kentucky. This was a great time - highly recommend spending more time in Cincinnati, because we missed so much we wanted to do.

Quick find on a trip to Boston

Given that not even all of my trips resulted in finding geocaches, writing these blogs has reminded me of some trips in 2015 that had completely slipped my mind (like this one). Just a quick find on a very quick trip: Boston Skyline.

My geocaching finds wall art

I got a new cork board for my walls today, and trying to fill up all the states with finds.