Park and Grabs

Park and grabs are great! There is nothing better when the wind chill is -18 than being able to pull the cachemobile up to within 10 feet of a cache. It's basically the drive-thru of geocaching.



Today we braved the weather to grab a couple caches. I had to run down to the bustling utopia of East Peoria. Being the MicroMaster that I am I decided to take out a few of the umpteen million micros in my area. So I whipped up 3 caches that are right along the road.

The first one was about 50 feet from the car. The area was slightly flooded yet frozen. So I walked around while the kids skated across the ice. Ground Zero was a little clump of trees. We looked for about thirty seconds when the Mrs. said "Here it is!" We did a quick inventory and realized that we had no pen. So we took the cache to the cachemobile signed the log and I braved the wind alone to replace the cache.

Next we pulled into a parking lot and towards the back was a pay phone kiosk with no phone in it. I figured that had to be it. I didn't even get the GPSr out! I pulled up next to it and the Mrs. hopped out. After a little looking she found it. She hopped back into the car, we signed the log, then she replaced it.

The third, we decided to pass on because of the cold.

I am now no longer intimidated by micros, as long as the Mrs. comes along. I think she has more actual "finds" than I do.

That's only because I am too busy looking at the GPSr to look for the caches! (that's my excuse and i'm sticking to it!)

In other news I scored a Palm M105 on ebay for $2.39



so I can try to do paperless caching. I should get it this week. I will definitely have fun with that thing!