Good morning everyone. Today we look at North Carolina. The oldest and the cache with the most favorite points is 'Octopus Garden' GC70. Hidden in September, 2000, this mystery cache has been found 2,590 times and has 1,006 favorite points.
It's that time of year again where we look back at the year that was. I bet there's a lot of people that are glad to see 2020 done. I think we can all agree that 2020 can be summed up in two words consisting of eight letters. "It Sucked". Thanks to a pandemic that ravaged the globe. It wasn't all bad. I'm going to highlight some of the positives that happened for me this year.
Geocaching: Did anyone else have a better year than the previous year for finding geocaches? I didn't. According to project-gc, I found 107 non-adventure lab caches. I cached on 32 of 366 days. That is the lowest number of days in a single year since I started geocaching in 2013. Even though I started in August of that year, I still have more finds and cached on more days compared to 2020. I'd like to blame the pandemic on that, but I can't. I just didn't get out much, even though I was still going to work every day.
(looking for geocaches located along dirt roads)
In 2020, I was a guest on my very first podcast. Adventures with Dan invited myself and local vlogger Hakliva to be on his show. It was a fun time and I'd do it again if I'm asked. Not just his show either. I'll be a guest on any podcast if they ask.
The trackable on my car finally got discovered in 2020. I placed a trackable sticker on my car in 2019 before I went to the North Dakota Camping and Caching event. It was by chance that I met up with local cacher Peter of the Peter&Gloria team while capping munzees that my car got discovered.
I put out two Adventure Labs. Those are so much fun to create and to do. I opted to have a little fun with the second one by adding "dad jokes" to to it.
I found nine different geocaching icons on a single day. That was my Leap Day goal. Project-gc only credits me with eight. For some strange reason, project-gc doesn't include Adventure Labs in the stats. It gets a side mention at the very top, but not included with the numbers.
Blogging: I reached my third anniversary for blogging. Who knew I had so much to say. LOL. Lately it's been more like Adventure Labs with Geocacher Ken. There's plenty more ALs out there for me to do and feature. The Geocaching Guild is still going strong. Angie (Geo-Jangie/Jangie) has stepped aside from her role for now, leaving me solely in charge. Nothing will change with the Guild for now.
Other stuff: One goal I did set for myself was in Pokémon Go. I wanted to reach 200 gyms defended long enough to become gold status. I reached that in mid-December. Once I reached that, I lost interest in Pokémon Go and have stopped playing. I got back to playing Munzee. I'm closing in on a capture streak of 365 days.
More other stuff: Personally; I started the year being a single dad. I don't want to get into details (it'll make your head spin completely off your shoulders), but that status has changed. Therefore, I no longer have Lilo around. From what I've been told by my boys, she's doing good, despite losing one of her back legs. I do have two new girls around me. I've never been a cat owner before, so it's been an adventure.
(I miss this girl)
I'm currently in between books at the moment. I did complete four books in 2020. I'm not a prolific reader by any stretch of the imagination. My next book is something I picked up at a book sale. It looked interesting and for $2, why not?
Goals for 2021: I don't think I set any goals for 2020. That could have been a good thing since 2020 turned into such a hot mess in a dumpster fire located at a train wreck. For 2021, I want to get back into geocaching a little more. Reaching my 6,000th find is overdue. Filling in a square or two on my Fizzy grid. Since project-gc breaks down the fizzy grid into cache types, I also want to add to my Traditional and Mystery fizzy grid. Overall, I have 70 out of 81 filled. Traditional takes up 58 spots and Mystery caches have 47 fizzy squares filled. I'm also breaking down both traditional and mystery caches by dates found. I was always about numbers, and breaking these down like this gets me more motivated to get out and find some geocaches. Another goal is to fill in some gaps in my Jasmer calendar. I don't have any finds that were placed in July, October, or December of 2020. That needs to be fixed asap.
I'll end this review here as this needs to be published sooner than later. It's almost 9:30am. Time to eat breakfast and get my day going. Until next week, be happy, stay safe, wash your hands and wear a mask (it does help slow the spread), and most importantly, have fun. Peace out.
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