Hello everyone. Well, we have decided that this blog is not great how it was. Listings of geocaches found was boring and useless. So, for now, I am going to write about our experiences. The last post I did on here was in January of 2012. Bah. Since then, I really don’t want to log all of our stuff.
Let’s just say this, in 2012, we found some caches and we didn’t find others. We actually didn’t do too much geocaching because of the price of gas. We did try to geocache in Florida for the Make A Wish trip. We had the GPS, geocaches loaded, but didn’t have or take the time to get any of them. OH well.
We did head up to one of our favorite lakes, Currant Creek, and not only found a few, but placed 2 caches for Leatha’s birthday. That is becoming a tradition, to place a cache for Leatha’s birthday. Finally, in 2012, we got our badge for 
finding a cache on 12-12-12. It was a quick cache, close to home, at 10pm. we almost missed it. I had originally planned to get 12 caches, but it was not to be.
Quick cut to 2013. It was March before we did anything with the GPS, when we placed one that couldn’t be published because it was too close to another one. We then found 1. only 1. From March until August.
Well, August took us again to Fish Lake for Leatha’s birthday. We placed a cache near our camp again as well as a couple of others. And wouldn’t you know, there was a place that we drove by and it just needed a cache. I looked, no caches nearby, so I placed one. Got home, put it in to the geocaching site, and someone published a cache less than 50 feet from mine on the same day I placed mine. I told you it was a good location.
All together we found 17 caches over that trip, the most in one month that we have ever done. We also hit 150 caches found, and Amelia found it! Too much fun. Now, you can see in the sidebar there, our cache total stands at 165 found and 12 hidden. Leatha has a disproportionate amount of caches, she finds a lot of them.
We didn’t know at the time, but we got badges for caching in August as well. it was geocaching month.
We really had no idea that the 17th was International Geocaching day, but we participated anyway!
One of the great things about caching is seeing places people choose to put caches, and reading interesting points that they put in the descriptions. One of the caches we found was along the road and had a bunch of lava rock around that would catch water. People used to stop there to water the horses and cattle in the old days before cars. kind of cool history there.
We were on our way home and ended up with another flat tire for the trip. So, while I was getting it changed, Leatha had to place a cache. She called it Flat Tire Blues and it has already been found!
The last cacche of the trip we found in Nephi, and was at an old Sinclair station, something that looked like it was built in the late 30’s. It was of course closed and overgrown, but it is fun to see some of that old Americana on these quests for geocaches. That is half of the fun.
