We've been spending a lot of time lately geocaching - from finding caches on vacation in New York and Massachusetts, to tracking our travel bugs online.
The hike to the geocache in New York we found with my cousins was easy. So tame in fact that if I had owned a pair, I could have done in heels. And the cache in Massachusetts we found was also easy and our first with a baby carriage in tow (we brought my friend and her three young kids along). And in case you're wondering, we are sticking with the easy finds for a while since we had plenty of excitement on the cache we found last month.
Our travel bugs have also had a busy month. Two of our four bugs have been to geocaching parties this spring.
Lilo the Swimmer was the first to attend a geocaching event in Nova Scotia in March. At one point I logged onto the Nova Scotia Spring Kick-off page and saw they had over 100 travel bugs. I didn't realize they were collected for these events.
Then Annika The Hiker was the next to get an invite. She went to the Massive Easter Egg Hunt event in New Zealand. What caught my eye about this event was the organizer's warning about wearing bug spray. Every hemisphere has its bug woes.
What was also pretty cool was that the person who had Annika for that event dropped her off and picked up Hiking Doggie. It's fun to make connections like that on the website.
Ronny didn't get invited to a party this year but his current host is taking him to dinner at McDonalds in the lowest zip code in America (01001 in Agawam, MA).
So with our travel bugs having so much fun, we want to attend a geocaching event ourselves. It turns out that there's one coming up in southern Maine.
Geocachingmaine.org is hosting an event on Mt. Agamenticus on Saturday (April 29) from 12-3 p.m. at the summit. We're hoping we can re-work our schedule that day to attend -- and maybe we'll bring a new travel bug to join the party so its owner can attend a party vicariously like we have this spring.
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