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September 30th was magick box day with Team PBS. We did three:  &Magic Box Signs @Magic Box First stop and Magic Box all three hid by JWheels. Very fun - here are some images of the day. 

I need a magnet, do you have the magnet? I don't have the magnet. She has the magnet. No she has the magnet. No I gave the magnet to Her! Oh right Deanna has the magnet!

Trip to the UP of Michigan left October 2, 2018 - met up with geocaching buddy Don Silentecho____  met up in Wausau WI area for  Little 'Cache' on the Prairie Madison came too - I logged her trackable  

Keeping My Streak in The UP

10/3: I found  WSQ Ava's cache cemetery cache   I left this trackable behind Gum & Da Police and I really like my photo  I logged my Chevy too.

10/4: My cousin Penny's First Find and First DNF all in the same day! We drove up the country forest backroad to a logging area.  I had my doubts right away - but it was just found a few weeks prior so we made the hike. Pioneer Creek Trail was our did not find. The forest was gone. bulldozed down with nothing left.  Now Im screwed... I have to find one geocache to keep my streak.  We looked on the map and found an easy one called  Fly It!  We parked on the side road and no one was there.  Trecked through the woods while and Penny saw the "hint" first. and made the find. Her first Geocache! Flying High 

Still Keeping my streak in the UP. 

10/5: Friends from Chicago visiting Kitty Island for a few days and we decided to visit the visitor's center for a quick geocache. Realized the earth cache there  Where Waters Meet was only premium so we stopped for a 2nd one everybody could grab. Thousand Island Found with dancingwolfhalk a bunch of non premium members (wink) and their dog

October 6, 2018 my newest super-duper favorite geocache  Kakabika Falls

the girls and I went out to find my one geocache to keep my streak. this was only a few miles from my cottage I had no idea the Falls were here. We spent the later morning hiking the trail to the falls, taking pictures and really enjoying the fall chilled air. 

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Video of falls

10/7 Company has all gone back to Chicago and I'm left on a damp and rainy day looking for a geocache. This cache was pretty close to the cottage and sounded easy to find  Ghost Town of the Pine Days however, my GPS routed me on some crazy road that turned to gravel, and then turned to dirt... then a trail with grass in the middle and then a big mud hole. I looked on the map and realized I had turned one road to soon and there was a road directly to the area.  I turned around, took the second exit and made the find. But one just wasn't enough - I just had to make this find.  King's at Snapjack met a family and told them about geocaching - and gave a pathtag away... walked over and beautiful area, but couldnt find the cache. Read through activity and realized coords were 30 feet off walk right up to the cache and made the find. 

Keeping My Streak in The UP 10/8/18 Iconic Geocache day in Ironwood Michigan. 

I am very careful not to "cache-out" my local area on this streak.  Especially out here in the UP I might have to drive an hour and walk into the woods in a snowstorm to keep my streak - but now I don't thin I will be back up until after I have made my goal. SOOO Thinking my streak is over November 11, 2018 which will be 365 days... and thinking I could grab a few iconic cache while I was in Ironwood and I wouldn't be up again until after my streak is over - I decided to grab the two most famous cache at least for my family.  First Hiawatha and then on the way back to the cottage I grabbed The Big Skier. So excited! But now as I leave this note... I am planning anouther trip for a week so I'll be making those hour drives to keep my streak alive. God I hope the weather cooperates. 

Catching up to the new year. 2019

There is so much that has happened in mygeocache.world I can't even start to remember everything that was an amazing milestone. great time with a geo-friend. cool find or... But here are a few highlights since my last post in October and a few pictures to go along with it. 

• 1000 find October 12, 2018 with Scrltohra
• went caching with my muggle mom while at our U.P. cottage and she had fun. its in our blood
• had to get just one. A quick nearby "monkey family" and touched the magnet of the container and it went way down the middle. It's almost midnight I can't reach it.  Called reinforcements and with the help of Scrlttohra I was saved and so was the cache. 
• Lloyd's Lunchbox and Trackable Hotel GC7ZGNN Hide by Scrlttohra and I. We found the "container" in the middle of the road hunting another cache.  It was the perfect idea for a hotel and Scrlttohra new the perfect place.  
• Scrlttohra and me. caching with our new friend  anitabath. notice the "light" geocache container from that find
• caching with I can nver remember 10.30.18
• my creative cache submission Fishing for a Cache  A PAMag76 Hide with ScrlttOhra | GC803RG and the winner
• attended my first film event GIFF Film Festival - 2nd Annual Algonquin 
• Creative cache contest publish a dozen hides. vote by your heart! I got six... Mind you "6" first to finds! the rule is... the early bird get the FTF. They published at 4am - and I was out the door! stayed up and attended event & group caching afterwards. blues crew, bearpack8 and less equals more and met more cachers at different coords.
• 11/20 event FIGHTING THE WINTER BLUES - WEEK 1 
• 12/4 first time geocaching with Diamond Head also blues crew in photo. found 5 that day
• 11/27 with my son GeoExtraordinaire our ND find and state souvenir over thanksgiving. The day before I stopped my streak 377 days! now I'm going for numbers!
• 12/13 my adorable muggle friend Deb and her first geocache find
• 12/21 event Festivus for the Rest of Us IX  and by luck Deanna got the duck! ha!
• 12/22 early morning geo-freeze I mean event  Start Your Day With STiLL VI  met KandleSprite for the first time. 
• blues crew to the rescue. dadgum I couldnt find this FTF called in help and we signed together. 
• 12/27 holiday my son GeoExtraordinaire home caching find with bearpack8
• night caching with bearpack8
• events One last Time Before the 2018 Year's End  
• event A bit of Recovery and Re-hashing - 2019  with KandleSprite and caching with less is more found 15 cache that day after the event. followed a few footsteps when it started snowing - easy find without the GPS
• HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019

Found with my newest geo-partner DaCachingNana with a list of 20 for today.  Then she leaves for three months.... booo - can't wait til you get back! Lots to find. We even found "two" cache at one location... and had a ball. Great caching with ya DaNana. Found a couple of the Lake county geo-tour and then I prompty broke one. Uggg later-on however I contacted the CO and recently met in person at another event.  I love this game - so many new friends. 

JANUARY 5, 2019 signing the log 76bears ( even though there is a random "duck" in our photo.   I spent the day with my two geo-pals marybear and bearpack8. great day.  Mary (sara) made us a list but had to go home early, so Deanna and I kept caching.  ended up meeting a traveling Frenchman, parking in an illegal spot and totally getting away with it and 21 smilieys for the day. 

Get Geo-Better Miss Scrltohra we miss you!

Into The Mouth of Madness! 
November 11,  2018

My first visit was in November 2018 with a new goe-friend Toppercat. We checked on a really amazing geocache hide of his located in Busse woods near by. I had the best time, trucking through this crazy terrain with the CO. Summertime would be murder! Found the cache right at ground zero - but then the puzzle began. Brilliant! Great fun - but I must admit I'm happy I had the CO's help It was an amazing gadget  Dude, where's my bike?  has been maintained! I Found it after making the trek from the crazy clown hide just around the other side of the park... I totally chickened out! Gotta go back with my real flashlight instead of my BB. and maybe bring reinforcements. ScArY!! Made the trek back to parking through knee-high water. COLD... but not cold enough to freeze. Arrived at the car in the dark with a smiley and 367 days consecutive streak. A LEO drive-by got us on our way fast.

January 6, 2019

My fear overcome, I forged ahead... but brought friends this time. Wasn't sure if I would live, but I got to sign the log and return alive to report on the find - here. hhaa. But this time with reinforcements, and adult peer - pressure... I made it. Me and My Monkey, MeNMyMonkey and sweetbaboo88 contacted me to ask if I wanted to try again. The weather was perfect, cold enough where the ground wasn't too muddy as we made our walk across the stubbled field. We made our decent into the mouths opening and turned on our flashlights. It was already creepy. The enormous artwork all over the walls suggests people - "someone"... spends a lot of time here - and from the content of the art - they don't seem to be Geocachers. MORE creepy. We tease, laugh and then start to hear someone else in the tunnel. All of us (even the big guy) took a step back. 800 lums is nothing in pitch blackness. The opening at the mouth only gets smaller less bright until is is a distant dot of light. I can't believe how far we are into this tunnel. Our flashlights move... illuminating the art on the walls. Amazing. We hear them again - ahead of us.... no they have moved behind us. Maybe we are being surrounded. I'm actually thinking of the walking dead...well - they can't get all of us... Right? I'll be the one sacrificed to save the group. But we continue the slow careful walk deeper into the tunnel. Water is rushing past us o the ground of the tunnel flowing in from the gigantic pipes on the sides of the walls. our light catches the water moving making the artwork on the walls come alive. movement is everywhere as the flashlights reflect the reflection motion of the water, voices are surrounding us, from behind and in front... - we are not alone... more voices, but we continue to the mark. Stop. and someone said "Turn off your flashlight!" what??? a rush filled my head.  I knew this was going to happen - but I wasn't sure I was ready. It went dark. The cold seemed to swallow us instantly. No one spoke. As we stood in its pitch black stomach, and no sound. Then breaking the silence - one speaks, a blue light... and we make the find. Only to discover our friends who traveled before us ( Blues Crew and ICNR) made the drop.  The stamp was gone! But we signed the new log most happy and made the walk out in a much more relaxed and experienced way! Stopping to take pictures of the artwork and laughing about how silly we were.

AND the voices? Well - that's a whole other story.