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Geocaching and a Whole Bunch of Random Stuff

 Good morning everyone.  We continue East into the Maritime Provinces of Canada.  First up is New Brunswick.  The most favorite cache is 'The Hopewell Rocks Earthcache'  GC11F89.  As the name indicates, it is an Earthcache that was published in March, 2007.  There has been 963 logged finds so far with 263 favorite points.  The oldest is 'Beginners Luck? First Geocache in New Brunswick'  GC760.  Hidden in April, 2001, this oldie has 493 logged finds and 116 favorite points.

For the past few weeks, I have been chronicling my week in geocaching.  This week, there really isn't much to look back on.  There is good reason for it too.  Let's take a look at The Week That Was:

Saturday, June 18.  For those that follow me know I have started taking pictures of water towers.  I did an entire blog showcasing these structures during one of my moves.  I've added something new.  Grain elevators.  More specifically, the old, wooden, standard plan grain elevators.  These dotted the prairie landscape.  Over the years, these types of elevators have become abandoned in favor of newer, larger elevators.  There are three elevators within city limits.  My main purpose for this day was to get pictures of these elevators and a water tower or two.  There just happens to be a geocache nearby where I'll be taking pictures.  It's another in the 'Down in the Dumps' series.  This one is for the old St. Boniface dump.  GC8PVRK.  It was a simple flat pack in a telephone pole.  I attempted a harder multi.  'Keeper of the Key'  GC1GXHC.  I couldn't find stage one.  1 traditional found.

(Just down the road from the geocache)


Sunday June 19 to Friday June 25.  Nothing.  I didn't go geocaching at all during the week.  That was planned though.  I have begun a one week vacation from work.  I have been planning one big geocaching day.  In order to do that, I have kept my driving to a minimum to save gas.  The more I save, the less I'll need to top up for my adventure.

I will be documenting my adventure as best as I can.  It won't be just about finding geocaches.  I will plan my route accordingly so I can get more pictures of grain elevators and water towers.  This past week I've been getting the itch to do something different creatively.  I'm thinking of stepping out from behind the keyboard, so to speak, (I actually do my entire blog using a phone app), and getting in front of the camera.  This is also stepping out of my comfort zone.  I'm not very good in front of the camera.  At least I haven't in the past.  I did dabble in Periscope, but I recently found out that that particular platform is no more for new content.  I haven't bothered with TikTok.  That leaves YouTube.  We shall see how that day progresses and what kind of footage I get.  

Another thing that happened this week was another pathtag trade.  I only have three or four duplicate tags that are up for trade, so it is a surprise when I get a trade request.  This request isn't very far away.  In fact, it's from someone that I'm familiar with, and I hope to meet one day when the border opens up again.  She's giacaches from North Dakota, the owner of the first official GeoTour (GT488) in North Dakota/ Minnesota.  She's wanting to trade for a duplicate tag that I have from Jangie.  In exchange, I'm getting my very first piece of Geocaching Vlogger swag.  As of this writing, both tags are still in transit to their new homes.

(The tag that I'm trading to giacaches)


(The tag I'm getting in exchange)

If you're not familiar with the Fargo/Moorhead GeoTour, you can see it in this 2 two part video from The Geocaching Vlogger.  Part 1 > Moorhead   Part 2 > Fargo

A couple of Sundays ago, I was watching Geocache Talk and their fifth anniversary show.  They were doing draws throughout the show for various trackable coins.  To enter, all you had to do was enter #5years in the live chat when prompted.  Much to my surprise, I actually won one of the trackables.  That showed up this week in the mail.  

(A madi gras themed coin and a Geocache Talk button)

That's been my week.  Aside from a big caching day tomorrow (Monday), I have no other caching plans for the remainder of my one week vacay.  I'll be busy trying to downsize my stuff with a goal of owning less 💩 and be able to find a nicer, smaller apartment with a balcony.  Hopefully next year.  We shall see.  Also planned is my second vaccination.  I'm excited for that.  Hopefully the border to the States will open soon.  Fingers crossed it's open before the 'Gilby Gone Wild' event GC9C05V on September 25.

Just a reminder that this is the last week to get your entries in for the June photo contest.  This month's theme is simply finding a geocache.  You can send your entries to thegeocachingguild@gmail.com or direct message me on Twitter at @thegeocachingg1.  I will be announcing the winner next weekend.

Until next time, be happy, stay safe, wash your hands and wear a mask, hug your geo-pets, and most importantly, just have fun.  Peace out. ✌ 

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