Tuesday, March 24, 2015

MOGA 2015

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.

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