Honeymoon Geocaching Trip

[CaptainColour]

I don't know if I am in the right forum, but it seemed the most relevant. I will move is requested.

 

Anyway, back to the main topic! So, my fiance and i are getting married August 25th, 2013. We were thinking a fun, and cost effective, way to have a honeymoon was to go geocaching all over BC. The problem is, we don't know exactly how to go about starting to plan in. I was wondering if anyone here would have any experience planning a pure geocaching trip. We will be bringing a motorhome so a campsite would be nice, but if there is a nice hike nearby we will be doing it. We will be bringing our dog, she's small, a mini poodle.

 

If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them! Our trip would last about a week since I believe we are moving in the first or second week of September. Thanks to all my fellow geocachers!

[+NYPaddleCacher]

I don't know if I am in the right forum, but it seemed the most relevant. I will move is requested.

 

Anyway, back to the main topic! So, my fiance and i are getting married August 25th, 2013. We were thinking a fun, and cost effective, way to have a honeymoon was to go geocaching all over BC. The problem is, we don't know exactly how to go about starting to plan in. I was wondering if anyone here would have any experience planning a pure geocaching trip. We will be bringing a motorhome so a campsite would be nice, but if there is a nice hike nearby we will be doing it. We will be bringing our dog, she's small, a mini poodle.

 

If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them! Our trip would last about a week since I believe we are moving in the first or second week of September. Thanks to all my fellow geocachers!

 

Invest in a premium membership. That will allow you to create pocket queries of the areas you'll be visiting and even more useful, caches along a route, which will allow you get get a list of cache in between places where you stop to "camp".

[+Dan2099]

I don't know if I am in the right forum, but it seemed the most relevant. I will move is requested.

 

Anyway, back to the main topic! So, my fiance and i are getting married August 25th, 2013. We were thinking a fun, and cost effective, way to have a honeymoon was to go geocaching all over BC. The problem is, we don't know exactly how to go about starting to plan in. I was wondering if anyone here would have any experience planning a pure geocaching trip. We will be bringing a motorhome so a campsite would be nice, but if there is a nice hike nearby we will be doing it. We will be bringing our dog, she's small, a mini poodle.

 

If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them! Our trip would last about a week since I believe we are moving in the first or second week of September. Thanks to all my fellow geocachers!

 

Congrats on getting married...I've never designed a pure caching trip myself but I have planned motorcycle trips basically the same idea. I would start out by picking a park or destination in mind, then using mapquest pick a route and adjust it to find favorites along that route...I prefer mapquest because it will calculate gas and depending on how detailed you want to get will give you gas stops, hotels, etc....

[+Sol seaker]

Definitely get a premium membership. Then you will also have access to all caches.

 

I've planned caching vacations.

We thought of beautiful areas to camp, then looked at the caching maps for areas with a lot of caches. Pick a nice area you would like to explore even if you weren't caching. Look at the map of caches, and see what you've got.

 

After you choose a general area run a few pocket queries. Run a couple for all the caches in the area, but run one for the most favorited in that area. I like to print that list out. I also like to print the map of the area with the caches. Some just use their GPS, but I like to have a hard copy.

 

With the list of favorites you can pick the best caches, and usually nicest locations.

Plan a route to get caches with a lot of favorites.

Decide on 20- 50 caches per day depending on how hard you want to cache or how easy you want to take it.

 

Choose nice scenic hikes, great lunch spots, etc. But be flexible for what you may discover.

 

Remember its the hunt not the find. In other words, have fun and don't worry if you can't find some.

 

Read cache descriptions on the most favorited before you go and choose some great places. It will be worth the time spent.

 

Is there a part of B.C. you have in mind? If you get more specific we might help you more.

[+dameetro]

Sorry, double post. Goofy iPhone.

Edited August 8, 2012 by dameetro

[+dameetro]

My wife and I spent our 10th anniversary in BC last summer. We drove a motor home all the way there from Mississippi. We hit Mingo in KS, and two-thirds of the Triad on the way out. The Ape cache got archived the day before we were going to hit it.

 

If you are near Vancouver, we spent a great day caching in Lynn Canyon. We took our little dog there, and she loved the hike. We also spent a day up near Whistler. Grouse Mountain was also alot of fun.

 

We rented bikes and enjoyed riding and caching thru Stanley Park. Lots of good caches there, and it was very economical. We chartered a salmon fishing afternoon trip afterwards. The ferry ride over to Victoria was also a fun and inexpensive day. We grabbed a few caches and some great food in Victoria.

 

We camped at an RV park in Burnaby. We also got to witness the riots when they lost they lost the Stanley Cup. Fun times!

 

I ran a PQ and did the ol' sort by Fav Point method. We tried to hit as many of those as we could.

 

Congrats on the big day!

Edited August 8, 2012 by dameetro

[vagabond]

Premium membership for the pqs like others have said, running a route pq if your driving a lot helps.

We're doing our 50th anniversary in Sept. and will be driving about 2000 miles total, most of ours will be quick p&gs so the route pqs really help

Edited August 9, 2012 by vagabond