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Geocaching and Odds & ends pt. 3

Good morning everyone.  This week's fun fact is a little different.  It's all about geocachers who write and share their stories with everyone.  Bloggers as we know them.  There are plenty of geocaching bloggers out there, but how do you find them?  Aside from myself, there's GeoJangie, The Geocaching Junkie, Running Bereaved, Wheresjwo, Geocachingwhileblack, Shortyknits, just to name a few.  Where can you find all these people and more?  On a FB page that GeoJangie created.  Thegeocachingguild.  Check it out.  Like it and follow it.

This week is just a bunch of random stuff that individually, wouldn't make an entire blog.  Tossed together like the leftovers in the fridge and I might have something.

One of the things I'm hoping to do is purchase something geocaching related.  Not quite sure what just yet.  It could be a t-shirt, or a book.  I'll admit I have been eyeing a telescopic ladder for those tree climbing caches.  That would fit in my trunk just nicely.  Amazon actually has a fair amount of geocaching related items or non-related items that could be used for geocaching (I'm sure the creators of the telescopic ladder didn't have geocaching in mind).  There are plenty of geocaching related books.  A quick scan showed there are lots of geocaching for dummies/intro to geocaching type books.  I know that Gary Slinkard, the host of the Geocache Talk podcast (Sunday evenings, 8pm central) has a couple of books.  One is "201 Geocaches To Find Before You Die".
This is a compilation of 201 geocaches that Gary thinks are the best geocaches to find in the United States.  His other book "Hide and Seek: Life Lessons of a Geocacher" is more about why we should all go out and find geocaches.  I checked with another blogger who does reviews on geocaching books and sure enough she has a review on this particular book.  That would be GeoJangie and you can read what she has to say about the book here  -> https://geocachingjangie.com/2017/10/11/hide-and-seek-life-lessons-of-a-geocacher-book-review/

Another book I have my eye one is "How to Puzzle Cache".  I have seen this book and it looks like it would help with some of the tougher puzzles that are out there.  

I wouldn't mind adding to my geocaching wardrobe.  I'm deciding between two different lines of t-shirts.  Both are from vloggers from Ontario, Canada.  I enjoy the content they put out.  One is from Cache Canada.  One of their t-shirts would look nice when I head down for the North Dakota Camping and Caching event.  Everyone there will know that I'm a geocacher and a Canadian.  


The other t-shirt comes from Cache the Line.  I am a Patreon supporter of his and having one of his t-shirts would add to the support I'm giving so he can continue putting out awesome videos.  

Adventure Labs:  the newest edition to the geocaching game.  Like the newer virtuals that made a come back, only select people have a chance to put together an Adventure Lab.  There is one here in Winnipeg.  Put together by the Manitoba Geocaching Association, the theme is paranormal activity.  I haven't done this Adventure Lab yet, but plan to do so soon.  One of the 10 stops you make while doing the paranormal tour of downtown Winnipeg is at Dalnavert House.  

  You may recall that I talked briefly about this place back in February in my blog "Geocaching and the Staycay".  My oldest boy, d-2002 does volunteer work there on Thursdays in conjunction with his school.  For the past couple of Thursdays, I've been getting text messages from d-2002 while I'm at work, passing along a "hi" from any local geocacher that happens to stop there.  If you're planning on doing this Adventure Lab in the near future, be sure to do it on Thursday and say hi to d-2002 at Dalnavert House.  You can read more about the house here -> http://www.friendsofdalnavert.ca/

I did something this week that I haven't done since September of last year.  I rushed out for a chance for the coveted FTF.  An easy hockey themed puzzle came out just as I was packing in for the night.  I had it solved quickly, followed by indecision if I should rush out.  Lately I haven't been in the mood to be first to find for any caches.  Lingering and lasting effects of the drama that has shrouded me since the end of last summer.  Something this time said let's go for it.  So I did.  I was successful in getting the FTF.  My 40th FTF.  As I write this, the cache was only found one more time.  Four minutes after I had found it and left, missionMode came along for the Second to Find.

My April challenge update:  I want to reach my 5,300th find this month.  With more and more new caches coming out, that goal is getting easier.  I only needed 14 finds this month to reach my goal.  After last week, it was down to seven.  With the above mentioned FTF, I found four more yesterday, giving me five finds.  Two more and this month's challenge is done.

That's it for this week.  Be happy, be safe, enjoy, and most of all, have fun.  Peace out.

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