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... As it stands right now we're just taking out on one day and driving North from here. Do as many caches as we can (on the way) until we get bored/tired/ or it's real late... then driving as far as we can and get a hotel, resting up some and starting ALL over!!! :cry::):D:D Doing this for atlest 2 days/3nights and then heading home after the 2nd or 3rd night.

While gone I'll get to see some states I have NEVER been to! Kinda lame... I've only Been to Missouri (lived there as well), Oklahoma (live there now), Arkansas, Texas and Kansas. So there's ALOT of states to see still yet! lol Anyone have any intersting trips/vactions like this coming or have done? What was the best part? The trip itself, the caches, or getting to see the new states?? Any suggestions for caches I can keep in mind???? I know Minnesota (around St. Paul/Minneapolis area) is one place we have in mind......

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Geocaching is such a cool sport - you can find the coolest places right around your neighborhood that you didn't know about, and while traveling, you can find those neat places that other people want to bring you to.

 

The thread Caches Along A Route, A technical discussion may help you decide, but in the end there's really no way to tell if the cache you're going to find is a marvelous little hidden piece of history or just a run-of-the-mill-typical-cache-with-nothing-special-about-the-location.

 

So for now, try out the caches along a route, and read up on the logs for the cache page - and see how complimentary and verbose people are. That can be somewhat indicative of the enjoyment factor of a cache.

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Geocaching is such a cool sport - you can find the coolest places right around your neighborhood that you didn't know about, and while traveling, you can find those neat places that other people want to bring you to.

 

The thread Caches Along A Route, A technical discussion may help you decide, but in the end there's really no way to tell if the cache you're going to find is a marvelous little hidden piece of history or just a run-of-the-mill-typical-cache-with-nothing-special-about-the-location.

 

So for now, try out the caches along a route, and read up on the logs for the cache page - and see how complimentary and verbose people are. That can be somewhat indicative of the enjoyment factor of a cache.

Thanks. My Husband has been doing the caching along a route. I just wanted to see if anyone knew of any "off the top of their heads" they could tell me about that really stuck out.

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I'll be going away for a MO Women's Outdoor event to be held in southern Missouri. I plan on driving and caching the whole way. Since I will be by myself I can take as much time as I want! :cry:Hardwire has created a bookmark of all the caches along I-44 from Missouri to Oklahoma. This was really helpful in finding caches along the route. Maybe you will have luck in finding the same thing along your route. Have fun and keep on cachin' :)

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One cache that many people have gone waaaaaayyy out of their way for is Mingo which is the oldest active cache in the US. See the cache page for more details on that. I have not cached in the area, but know a few who have.

 

Old caches always make my list of places to go.

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I'll be going away for a MO Women's Outdoor event to be held in southern Missouri. I plan on driving and caching the whole way. Since I will be by myself I can take as much time as I want! :cry:Hardwire has created a bookmark of all the caches along I-44 from Missouri to Oklahoma. This was really helpful in finding caches along the route. Maybe you will have luck in finding the same thing along your route. Have fun and keep on cachin' :)

that's kinda what I'm hopeing, but haven't looked much lol

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One cache that many people have gone waaaaaayyy out of their way for is Mingo which is the oldest active cache in the US. See the cache page for more details on that. I have not cached in the area, but know a few who have.

 

Old caches always make my list of places to go.

 

I'll have to keep this one in mind, if nothing else it could be one I hit on the next road trip vaction....

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I'll be going away for a MO Women's Outdoor event to be held in southern Missouri. I plan on driving and caching the whole way. Since I will be by myself I can take as much time as I want! :)Hardwire has created a bookmark of all the caches along I-44 from Missouri to Oklahoma. This was really helpful in finding caches along the route. Maybe you will have luck in finding the same thing along your route. Have fun and keep on cachin' :D

that's kinda what I'm hopeing, but haven't looked much lol

I just looked at the list and I've done Most of these :cry:

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As a former Okie, I suggest you head west. Go to New Mexico and Colorado. If you make it to Taos, NM (wonderful place) make sure to go to Michael's Kitchen.

I've been thinking about going this way as well. It took us 3 months to decide towards the north lol, so we're have to keep west in mind for another time.

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As a former Okie, I suggest you head west. Go to New Mexico and Colorado. If you make it to Taos, NM (wonderful place) make sure to go to Michael's Kitchen.

I've been thinking about going this way as well. It took us 3 months to decide towards the north lol, so we're have to keep west in mind for another time.

 

We just finished a CA to OR, WA, MT, ID, WY, UT, AZ, NV then back to Cali road trip. 3500 miles in just over a week. Didn't get to cache as much as I wanted, but we still had a great time, and we had never been to most of those states.

 

I used Google Earth, and loaded the geocaching kml file into it. You can pan over your entire route, quickly bookmark all of the caches along the way. I loaded them all into the gps and my pda. Then, while en-route, I could read the past logs in the PDA and decide which ones were worth stopping for. We covered too much ground to do any power caching, so I had to be selective. I loaded so many that it was taking too much time to review them before we left, so I just reviewed them on the road.

 

Have fun!

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If you get as far north as Minneapolis I'd suggest you swing east into Wisconsin, around the Eau Claire area. It's about an hour from the twin cities on I94. I haven't been caching there yet (hopefully will next week), but the Wisconsin Geocachers Assoc. message boards has a current topic with recommended caches in the Eau Claire area. Heading over there would also give you a change of scenery from what you'd have seen coming north from OK.

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If you get as far north as Minneapolis I'd suggest you swing east into Wisconsin, around the Eau Claire area. It's about an hour from the twin cities on I94. I haven't been caching there yet (hopefully will next week), but the Wisconsin Geocachers Assoc. message boards has a current topic with recommended caches in the Eau Claire area. Heading over there would also give you a change of scenery from what you'd have seen coming north from OK.

OH COOL! I'll talk to Jerry about this!!! I found out we're taking off Friday night/Saturday Morn (he gets off at 12, 1 or 2 am on Fridays/Saturday). So, we're going to be driving a while before we start caching....

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If you're planning to take a roadtrip this weekend, you could always head south to Dallas for GeoWoodstock.

I'm still working on that..... I've asked 10 times now lol.

Now we're having to wait til Saturday when Jerry gets off his manditory overtime, to take out ;)

 

Edited to add:: Just dawned on me I've been spelling Vacation wrong....

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