Caching in Arkansas

Decided to stop quickly for a cache while visiting the area, since I haven't been to Arkansas much recently due to so much work travel and going to new places instead. On this day, we explored the area and grabbed a cache full of fun things.

Gardens Travel Bug Hotel

We also stopped at Quigley's Castle...it was an experience. I'd always wanted to see it, and now that I have, at least I've satisfied that curiosity.

Lunch break caching

It was such a beautiful day outside that I decided to meet up with a friend and go find a few caches over the lunch break. She had her soon-to-be stepson and his cousin along, so it was a really nice time to find four caches. These were all off of Legacy Trail in Plano.

• Legacy Trail #11 Honey Tree - Neat old tree.
• egacy Trail #10 The Tire Swing - This one was slightly evil and I am so glad for my experience finding others like it in the past.
• Legacy Trail #09 Old CarVery rusty old car here - the boys enjoyed exploring it. Sadly, I found half of what I'm certain was the cache container on the other side of the 'creek' as I almost fell in.
• Legacy Trail #07 Horse Crossing - The boys honed in on this one fast.

Caching at the dog park

Since we haven't had such lovely weather, we took Zinny out for the second day in a row to the local dog park. Since I wanted to walk around, I pulled up the handy-dandy geocaching app and noticed there was a cache just off the path around the park. So after Zinny ran off her energy for a bit, we went for a walk to locate it. Sadly, the only thing left was the lid: Strong Fences.

Post-Valentine's Day Caching

We had to get out to work off the Valentine's Day chocolate, and had a beautiful day to do so. We met up with Andy, Lisa, and James at a nearby lake where there are several caches. This was our second trip to this area, and we walked past some fond memories on the way to making new ones.

There were lots of thorns today, if the names of the caches we found give you any clues:

• Stangelina's - I've actually meant to find this one on numerous occasions when dining at either of the two places this references, but it was likely much better to have come from the direction we did.
• Shoreline 7 - This one has an innocent enough name, but there were plenty of thorns, even in the winter.
• 1 Is the line we like to sign another FTF... - And, you guessed it, more thorns :-)
• Fishing #04 - Thorny Poison Fishing - Thorns in shoes, hats, pants, everywhere. The name isn't lying. Ran into some muggles on the way who asked why we were in the area, but then their dog distracted them.
• Overgrown Street Ending - No thorns this time, but a really cool tree growing on a barrier at the end of a road.
• Off the trail - Not a bad find, and easy enough to give Evan and Zinny time to sit and chill.
• Shoreline 6 - A little bit of a walk since we didn't find the right path right away, but not too bad to find even though there were a few thorns and it was broken. Downside really was all the burrs that got stuck to us.
• I Just may stick you! - More thorny fun, and our last find of the day.

Someone spotted my travel bug!

I got one of those happy emails that told me someone spotted my travel bug. Or, in my case, the car my husband is driving. Just a happy thing to share on the blog.