Monday, January 12, 2015

Prepping for MOGA

We wanted to attend Geo-Woodstock in Maryland but, realized attending the event that far from home would be difficult.  Also, if I traveled to that area, I would want to cache states of Delaware and New Jersey and that would add to the possible misery.  This cacher did cache Washingon D.C and northern Virginia and traffic is horrible in that region of the United States.

The event was a planning event and mostly for volunteers who would be working the MOGA.  Having little desire to work an event; I did want to attend the later part of the event to learn more about MOGA and it's differences from a Geo-Woostock.  We arrived and put to work, it did appear much was accomplished.  Having hosted some events, I know the work to prepare for an event and could only imagine the difficulties and challenges for a Mega type event.

Prior to the event, we traveled to Bollinger County, Missouri and visited a Natural History Museum.  While driving into the county, the region resembled the Ozarks that we visited in 2011 in Arkansas and we learned we were on the outer edges of the Ozarks.

We also visited a grist mill and walked across a covered bridge.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

WALKING DEAD

I will be winding down some of my geocaching for the 2015 year.  Last year I didn't even have 300 finds and if not for the MLK weekend cache run and some of the power trails, I would have been lucky to have 100 finds.

There are few interesting caches near my home location and my occupation at this time is not placing me on the road.  With that, I do want to give back to the game.  I've been archiving many caches and observed that city of Sharon was without any caches.  I returned to the park where I had my cache "Centerfield" and looked around for the ammo can and to no surprise it was gone.  I did see a very used geo-trail which may have lead to the cache's disappearence.

Anyways, I developed a puzzle cache of my favorite TV "The Walking Dead" which runs on the AMC channel.  My cache is:  WALKING DEAD.

As with many puzzles I don't expect to get many finds.  But, I do look forward to the logs from TWD fans.