SudsFamily

We hit 1000 caches at Geowoodstock...that was our big goal and we did about 65 C&D over 5 days to make it happen. We also had some great food...Sandwiches at Primanti Bros in Pittsburgh, Lube Wings and Lake Perch in Erie, fantastic Greek food at Zoukoutis in Niagara Falls...yum. We added a state and a country to our statistics, and got the oldest cache in PA...considered driving over to The Spot but chickened out. We may have infected #2 son and his girlfriend with the geocaching bug...we can only hope! Can't wait for Geowoodstock X!!

I think that a log edited in a timely fashion, i.e that same day, would be at or near the top of the listing so you would not need to troll through 400 logs looking for it....right? Trying to respond to StarBrand post...did it wrong somehow..sorry.

Disclaimer...I have not hidden any caches (I find the process intimidating) so I don't personally know how a CO feels about this stuff. My average log is 146 characters, so I feel like I do a pretty good job at logging caches I find. Having said that, I will occasionally leave a TFTC, and have sent one letter logs many times that I go back and edit into longer logs at a later time, if we are doing multiple caches and I need to keep moving. I think that makes it more likely that my eventual log will be longer/more interesting. I didn't know cache owners got an email when I post a log; so in the future I will write "pending"; that way if the owner really cares what I wrote he knows to check back later. Most of the time when I read the logs (I almost always read them before caching..I want the most recent picture of what I am getting into and the logs provide that.) I have never seen a blank log and usually the logs are pretty informative, unless the cache is an LPC or the like. Is it possible that this is a regional problem? Oh and BTW....I love all caches, from LPC's to hikes by mountain streams...I would love 5/5's if I could do 'em...they all have a place. So keep placing those caches, and in case someone forgets to spell it out, Thanks!

We just did 8 counties this past weekend and we had a great time. I did many hours of planning, mapping and weeding through the caches from home before we went, drew out routes and wrote directions long hand as well as downloading pocket queries. We cache using smart phones for the most part but we also had 3 GPS® with us also for when our phones let us down. In the Eastern counties we frequently lost phone signal. We had planned to do 25 caches the first day, just a little bit of a stretch for us but we thought it was do-able. Hah. We had no idea about how much mileage a winding road adds. We got a flat tire the first day out which cost us about two hours and we managed to do 9 caches in 15 hours (including 90 minutes each way to our "centrally located" hotel). Day two we were more realistic and hoped to get 10-12 caches. We were able to wrap up Elk, complete Cameron and pick up the coin, then did Potter, and one cache in McKean for a total of 14 caches on Day 2...woohoo!! Day 3 we finished McKean but on our last cache in the county we hit a truck swallowing pothole and did serious damage, flattening wheel bearing and snapping off a piece of the caliper. We were several miles back on a forest road and then when we got back to a paved road we were 30 miles from a town. We limped into town praying out brakes would not fail on the way down a mountain. Fortunately there was one repair shop open in town and they were great. 2 hours later we were back on the trail and finished 3 additonal caches before heading to the hotel, for a total of 14 caches and 4 counties. At this point we decided to add a day to our vacation and try to accomplish a few more counties; Day 4 we finished Clarion, Forest and Warren and did one cache in Vanango, for 16 caches. These counties were much easier because the caches we chose were grouped closer together and/or all long a major route so we had few miles between them. On the way home yesterday we finished Jefferson for a grand total of 8 counties. I think we will go back up later this month to wrap up Venango and Crawford. We only have one coin since we cached primarily over the week end and there are only a few places to pick up coins. Despite the frustrations we had a ball doing this trail and saw some of the most beautiful countryside. This area is a water lovers paradise, with so many rivers, streams and waterfalls. Its a shame that the trail will be shutting down but I am glad that we had the opportunity to enjoy it.

Hope for those mourning TB's..a Resurrection Story. Many years ago(2003) my family picked up and then released a TB named Trek Deck Chicago Bug-Athon. Although all the TB's we pick up go on our watchlist Trek Deck quietly dropped off without our noticing. Then, in 2010 I got an email indicating that Trek Deck had been sighted. I didn't really remember him so I looked up his history. Trek Deck disappeared in 2004 and popped back up in Germany in 2010. There is no mention of where he was in the interim, but all in all that is irrelevant. He is now happily traveling through German and Czech caches and has been for over a year. Congrats to Trek Deck! And hope all the other hostage TB's out there...

2 years ago I watched with horror as the second plane hit the WTC, but in all honesty that paled when seeing the ticker on the bottom of the screen start reporting a "fire" at the Pentagon...and then reporting a plane flying into the Pentagon, right over the Helipad. You see, my husband worked in an office overlooking the helipad...I was blessed that I heard from him within minutes as he left the building; he had been in a meeting about 100yds down the hallway from impact and he was unharmed. The rest of the night we spent getting phone calls as people checked in with one another, accounting for friends and co-workers one at a time. It was the phone calls that confirmed the deaths of 3 of his friends, and another 30 co-workers that came in the latest around midnight. We will not forget...even if sometimes we would like to.

For my husband and the friends he lost at the Pentagon 2 years ago today.