Another weekend of Geocaching

We took off early Saturday morning and geocached our way to Muscoda for the Morel Mushroom Fest. For those not sure what geocaching is, its taking a gps unit or two and going around the world (yes, WORLD) in search of hidden items (caches) just for the sake of saying "I found it". Some caches have tradeable items that you can exchange and keep. Some have trackable items where you pick them up, move them along to another cache so that people can track the mileage and location progress of their 'travel bug' as they are called. Some are easy to find and some are more difficult. Tim's and my current challenge is to find the more difficult to find caches. And most of the time, we take an easy one and turn it into a more difficult one by way of not following directions!

We had one such cache this past weekend where that is exactly what we did! We read the description that said "Follow the trail, cache is located within a few feet of the trail". HA! Our GPS unit (the Delorme PN-20, handy little device!) showed we were within approximately 100 feet of said item and the trail appeared to go down a slope that didn't look very 'friendly'. Instead of staying on the trail as we should have, we bushwhacked our way through the woods instead! Tim's exact words to me were "Pretend you are a billy goat!" as we traversed our way down the side of this hill through the woods! Of course, the moment we came upon the cache, we did discover that the 'trail' was right there and not as 'bad' to have followed as we thought!

What was really cool about our day is that we added another state to our caching finds! We now have MN, WI, IL and IA on our list of cache finds. It was a good day! This is definitely our time to spend together doing something fun, getting exercise and the kids all enjoy going too!

Anyone interested in finding out more about geocaching go to the geocaching website and check it out!

Til later!
HUGS!
Tracy