Thank you!! And good luck to you too! We both qualified for the last of 2017 and first of 2018 souvenirs and the special (3 pack) trackable that was for sale in the shop.
I am new to the Los Angeles Area. My opportunity map looks like this map. I generally can find a free hour each day. So far it's working out. My caching style has changed from try to get as many as possible near each other in a given day. My PR: seven in one day. To a new style of, do my normal day which is often filled with random trips around LA. Try to find a cache at the furthest spot from home & work as possible, but only one. Stop. Do not clean an area out, I'll need them another day. Look forward to it. Keep it honest and fun. Do it after taking care of business and be done caching by mid-afternoon. Avoid the midnight anxiety. Solve puzzles before going, DNF after 10 minutes, move on, come back another day. Keep it fun, the fun reward, the challenge of the day. BTW: I wish it was a leap year. I've set an alarm for 2/29/2020 in case I'm not thinking about Geocaching that day in the future. Ha.
Today marks 38 consecutive. Just getting started. A cache a day...