Getting Closer to the Goal

(Let's try this again. My iGoogle gadget decided to eat the first try)

We picked up another baker's dozen yesterday to get closer to the goal of 2000 finds. Today we're going out to see if we can reach it today. Since it's already past noon, I don't have any high expectations, but I have been surprised before.

We started in the Kingston Mills area. While there, we checked up on our hide. As always, it was sitting out in the open. At least it had a piece of wood on top of it this time. Everything seemed to be in order inside, so I put it back, better hiding it this time. The caches we picked up in the area were fun. The Earth Cache had me wondering, though. If we had been more experienced when we hid ours, would we have made it an Earth cache?

There were some interesting finds today. We spent over an hour at one cache, complaining the whole time. We couldn't understand why someone would hide a cache amongst a pile of mobile rocks. As we were tossing rocks around, we heard something that didn't sound right. The cache was in a piece of pumice that had been hollowed out. Genius! We also got to cache among the "haves" today. The one area had some amazing homes that I couldn't begin to imagine how much they cost. At least we went through with a decent (although dirty) looking vehicle. We tried this before with our old Cavalier and got some very strange looks.

As usual, there were a number of non-spectacular caches. These are always the toughest to log. What am I supposed to write, "This cache sucked. At least we found it and we don't have to worry about it any more."? Of course I don't want to simply write "TFTC" because that wouldn't be fair. I always seem to find something to write, though.

We had one spectacular DNF. It was very dark and we ended up going through a very dense patch of thorn bushes to reach a tree and a set of rocks that seemed to be ground zero. Of course, we found nothing. We went to the cache page from our Blackberries and tried to run the Geo-checker to confirm our coordinates. For some reason, we couldn't get past the security question. I guess the site doesn't like mobile browsers. We made our way back to the van (thank goodness for track-back), counted our wounds, and continued on.

Hopefully, today's caching will go much smoother. Then again, it's the rough patches that add character.