We attended our first MOGA event this past weekend. We have been veterans of two prior Geo-Woodstock, we found out the differences between a MOGA and Geo-Woodstock. When we arrived at the Pharaoh's Event on Friday night, being that we were running a little late, I assumed I would drive up to a full parking lot. While the lot had many cars, we did find parking close by. There were much fewer vendors as compared to other mega events.
I made my reservations in November and nearly hotel locations within our price range were in Perryville, MO, 21 miles from the MOGA site. I was concerned as we drove up after 9 am, we would be parking a long distance away, but the event had a sparce crowd. We stayed around for a bit and later went to on a cache run working on a Poker Challenge, were we found all 7 caches that were in two different parks.
I learned the differences between a MOGA and Geo-Woodstock, one is based on competitions, the other for social. Also learned more about the Lab caches. Lab cachers are nothing more than a temporary virtual cache and instead of emailing the cache owner, one only has to enter the answer on the lab cache website.
Overall, it was a good experience and nice to be able to attend a Mega size event only about 2 hours from home.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Pi Day Events
March 14, 2015 was Pi Day, a day for the Mathmetical term. While Math is not my favorite subject, attending events, are my favorite subjects.
Both events were in McKenzie, the flash mob was the shortest, but I stayed around for a while to chat with cachers who stayed around. Having cleared McKenzie, there was not much for me to do. Also attended the lunch event. Again, more excellent conversation and was amazed by the number of cachers from different areas who attended. The cache owner whom had not created a previous event, but with experience from many attended events did an outstanding job and very creative with the log being a pie plate.
Both events were in McKenzie, the flash mob was the shortest, but I stayed around for a while to chat with cachers who stayed around. Having cleared McKenzie, there was not much for me to do. Also attended the lunch event. Again, more excellent conversation and was amazed by the number of cachers from different areas who attended. The cache owner whom had not created a previous event, but with experience from many attended events did an outstanding job and very creative with the log being a pie plate.
Friday, March 6, 2015
Long trip to Waco
Having been retired from the Tennessee Army National Guard for over 2 years; I have still maintained some contact with my old unit, 1171st Transportation Company in Dresden, TN. Late one week, someone posted that they needed a ride that would require overnight, travel would be on Sunday March 1 and return Monday March 2. I have plenty of annual leave and posted a repy that I could assist. I would later learn the trip was to take me to Waco, TX. After learning the destination, I began plotting geocachers to seek.
The trip to Waco, I would have company and since we didn't leave his home in Humboldt, TN until after 12 noon, I was aware that caching along the way would be limited.
I set up a priority of caches to seek and was not going to concern myself with numbers. Caches on the Jasmer list were my highest priority and I did fill in three months to include the oldest cache in State of Texas, which is Tombstone. Another on my priority list was The Grassy Knoll in Dallas, where President Kennedy was shot. I found that one to be the most interesting and thankful it was a virtual since there were so many people around. There were several panhandlers provided details of the shooting, one in particular showed me around for details. I gladly paid him a $10 tip for his assistance.
Began my return trip to Dresden from Dallas at about 11 pm. All together the day would be about 14 hours on the road and 750 miles. The second priority was to grab a few caches east of Little Rock, Arkansas to color in about 3 counties along I-40. Detouring away from construction, I ended up on Hwy 70, grabbing 3 of that series to color in 3 counties.
The trip to Waco, I would have company and since we didn't leave his home in Humboldt, TN until after 12 noon, I was aware that caching along the way would be limited.
I set up a priority of caches to seek and was not going to concern myself with numbers. Caches on the Jasmer list were my highest priority and I did fill in three months to include the oldest cache in State of Texas, which is Tombstone. Another on my priority list was The Grassy Knoll in Dallas, where President Kennedy was shot. I found that one to be the most interesting and thankful it was a virtual since there were so many people around. There were several panhandlers provided details of the shooting, one in particular showed me around for details. I gladly paid him a $10 tip for his assistance.
Began my return trip to Dresden from Dallas at about 11 pm. All together the day would be about 14 hours on the road and 750 miles. The second priority was to grab a few caches east of Little Rock, Arkansas to color in about 3 counties along I-40. Detouring away from construction, I ended up on Hwy 70, grabbing 3 of that series to color in 3 counties.
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