Tag Archive: geocache

A Tale of Two Tracking Bugs

In the world of geocaching, there’s a fun activity that involves the use of what’s called Travel Bugs. Basically, Travel Bugs are items of virtually any nature small enough to fit inside a geocache, with a unique tag attached to each one. These tags are shaped like dog tags, and have tracking numbers that can…

Maine Lighthouses – A Tale of Three Lights

Portland Head Light

Portland suddenly got hit with a one day deep freeze, forcing me to flee back indoors and hide out for a while, but on the upside it gives me a chance to catch up on my blogging. Yesterday I explored the surrounding areas of Portland and found three lighthouses, the first and probably the most…

From Blue Ridge to Roanoke

View of the Mountains from Blue Ridge Parkway

This post covers the events during October 23rd, as I traveled from North Carolina to Virginia. One of my goals was to spend at least a partial drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway while making my way towards Virginia. I was lucky in that the foliage was MUCH more pronounced here. Autumn had arrived very…

Ashes to Asheville

Rocking Chairs at Log Cabin

This post covers the events during October 22nd, after I leave Tennessee and visited North Carolina. My last morning in my cabin. Checkout was at 11AM, so I called up the office to check out at promptly 10:59AM. I was going to squeeze every moment I could out of this morning before leaving, so I…

From One Music Mecca to Another

Nashville at Night

Finally made it to Nashville Friday night, well, just outside of it actually. I got tired of playing Russian Roulette on Priceline.com for the past week, so I opted this time to stay at a suburban hotel outside the city limits. Hotels.com had an excellent guest rating for the Country Inn in nearby Goodlettsville, so…

Speed Racing Through Indianapolis and Beyond

The First Luxury Benz

As a direct result of the…. incident, I lost three days and needed to make up for lost time to get to Arkansas so I could make my flight from Little Rock to Las Vegas. I had to sacrifice part of my original itinerary to make it happen, which included continuing to Springfield, illinois to…

From the auto shop to the fields of Indiana: the race to find a special geocoin!

Cornfield at night with headlights shining

After my car was finally released by the auto shop, I hightailed it to the Indiana border on a late Thursday afternoon. My mission: pick up a geocoin that was hidden in a geocache somewhere near the corn fields of Warren, Indiana. I had first found this coin in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania sometime last year,…

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