Blowing smoke

Okay, to explain the last post - simply, I was depressed. Really, really depressed. And it took 6 days to get out of it. So...

39 caches in 3 days? BRING IT ON!

And I'm happy to report - as of Thursday, July 31st - I'm at 1989. Tomorrow I'll bag the remaining 6 to give me 1995. Saturday we fly to Seattle and I cross over that next milestone in style!

7/31/2008
NevadaWolf found ONE IN, ONE OUT 3, Grace Rocks, Canyon Creek, Reno's Best Thai #2, Pathway to Nowhere, Northgate forest, Holey Smokes West, Movie Title Series #6, Desert Research Institute/Dandini Gardens, Back, Back Nine, California Sea Hare, West of Pyramid Hwy 3.5, West of Pyramid Hwy 2.5, West of Pyramid Hwy 5, West of Pyramid Hwy 6

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7/30/2008
NevadaWolf found Love....., Shell Shocked, Cold Ducks, Crouching Cacher, Hidden Logbook, Buckbean Bounty, Corporate Capital not Business Bucks, The Simpsons Movie Series - No Dumping, Anchors Away, Evil Lil'Box, Meter-free Park(ing), Not a Whomping Willow, A.H.R.:#6 TEAM LAUGHING GRAVY, Eat and sleep, Troop 4, Cache For Class

7/30/2008
NevadaWolf posted a note for CharliePop's Evening Happy Hour(s) #2

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7/23/2008
NevadaWolf found Deep Sea Angler Fish, Is this a Meadow or was this a Mill? - Rally 2007, Below the Top of Ophir Hill - Rally 2007, Checkpoint X1 - Rally 2007, Checkpoint X2 - Rally 2007

7/23/2008
NevadaWolf couldn't find Above Jumbo in American Ravine - Rally 2007

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7/20/2008
NevadaWolf found Old Mt Rose Hwy, R5 Stop-N-Go: Inclined 2 Play, Mile Marker #8, Mile Marker # 7, Mile Marker # 5-II, Tahoe Streams 8...Ward Creek, Tahoe Streams 6...Blackwood Creek, Tahoe Streams 5...Madden Creek, Tahoe Streams 3...Quail Creek, Tahoe Streams 1...General Creek, Mile Marker # 61, Mile Marker # 59, Mile Marker # 54, Tahoe Streams 2...Cascade Creek, LT003 Stateline

7/20/2008
NevadaWolf couldn't find Mile Marker #49 Where's the Marker?, Tahoe Streams 7...Trout Creek, Off the Deep End; but The Deep End is Gone!, Skylandia Park, Mile Marker # 4, LOOKING FOR PROPERTY

Crash and burn

I'm not going to make it.

With 9 days left, only 39 caches to get, after getting 173 caches in less than a month, one single act brings it all crashing down around me.

I don't even have the energy to bother to try. Amazing how something so unrelated can just stop everything dead in its tracks.

Sorry Bryan, I really did want to come over this weekend.

Unbelievably 1939 - 59 to go!

I've cached more in the last few weeks than I have been able to in months. And I'm starting to clean out the clumps I've got around here. Tomorrow - err today - I think I'll be heading up to Tahoe to bag the infamous Mile Marker series by applejohn!

7/18/2008
You found This is definitely not a Turn On, telni bruc, Frisco Find, Put Me In Coach

7/18/2008
You couldn't find Hoops Anyone?

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7/19/2008
You found Checkpoint 2 - Rally 2007, Cache on a Stick, Sheep Pen, SHM # 211 OLD GEIGER GRADE, 341 Easy grab, RLife, Christmas Cache, Sami's B-Day Cache, Got the Travel Bug?, Freebie Cache, Wally's Pyramid Overlook, Rock the City, PoNg ShMoNg, Rally Practice Route Cache, Fitness up Front - Cache out Outback, Stuck on You, Twin Towers, Valley View, Pah Rah, Les's Place, RCW,"It's a BIRTHDAY Cache"

7/19/2008
You couldn't find Nearly Green Power, Stop and Play, Used to be Many Mills Around Here - Rally 2007, KIDS MEAL CACHE, Meter-free Park(ing)

7/19/2008
You posted a note for Satellite Vista

Moving closer

85 to go after an insane weekend. Plus broke my record for reaching 100, now 8 days. And broke my personal best day - 53 on Saturday.

Whew, two weeks left.

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7/13/2008
You found Spending Time in the Dog House, Deep Subject, Sad memory, Movie Quotes - Part 3, Business Card Exchange - Krispy RIP, Ebony and Ivory, the Fate of Sisyphus, Caughlin Drive-by, Me & Fencepost, Sharp Eagle Eye, Tunnel Vision, Trumps Backyard

7/13/2008
You couldn't find Shell Shocked, Love.....

7/13/2008
You posted a note for R/R

A Return to the Rally!

Today - b0neZ, kindergeek, LostinReno and I hit Peavine. Oh my God did we hit it!

Over 53 caches! I'm still reeling, so I'll just post my list of what I found as our 11 hour day netted us several records.

7/9/2008
You found I traded my sister for goggles, House Fly, Under the rug, Tennis NE1?, Lair of the Dog, U Got mail, Where is the Bus, Nano, Greenbelt, Alfalfa

7/9/2008
You couldn't find welcome to winhaven, Go to the park sucker

7/9/2008
You posted a note for bailys' "one sick puppy", Old School, Old Mendes Meat Market

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7/10/2008
You posted a note for Happy Birthday Randy!

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7/11/2008
You found Clean Water the Green Way, Along came electricity, Buzzzz, CoLoR oF mOnEy

7/11/2008
You couldn't find Near Batty, Trucking Down to the Truckee

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7/12/2008
You found Cabelas, Moonchaser's Flat Tire, GBES Rally 2008 Day Challenge 4 Cache, Dog's Forks, shooting stars, GBES Rally 2008 Day Checkpoint 3 Cache, A meadows view, T&F 110 Meter Hurdles, GBES Rally 2008 Day Challenge 3 Cache, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 28, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 27, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 26, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 25, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 24, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 23, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 22, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 21, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 20, Cache 22, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 19, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 18, GBES Rally 2008 Day Checkpoint 2 Cache, GBES Rally 2008 Day Challenge 2 Cache, T&F 100 Meter Dash, GBES Rally 2008 Night Route Cache 01, GBES Rally 2008 Night Route Cache 02, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 17, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 16, GBES Rally 2008 Night Route Cache 03, GBES Rally 2008 Night Route Cache 04, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 15, GBES Rally 2008 Night Checkpoint 1 Cache, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 13, GBES Rally 2008 Night Route Cache 05, Basque Sheepherder: The High Camp, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 12, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 11, GBES Rally 2008 Night Checkpoint 2 Cache, GBES Rally 2008 Day Checkpoint 1 Cache, GBES Rally 2008 Day Challenge 1 Cache, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 10, GBES Rally 2008 Night Route Cache 07, GBES Rally 2008 Night Route Cache 08, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 09, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 08, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 07, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 06, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 05, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 04, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 03, We're not in Kansas anymore!, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 02, GBES Rally 2008 Day Route Cache 01

7/12/2008
You posted a note for GBES Rally 2008 Night Challenge 1 Cache

Still going strong

Spent the day out grabbing some caches from last year's Navigational Rally. Plus grabbed a few yesterday in between trips to the carnival. If I keep up this pace, I should have it done before my deadline.

164 remaining

7/5/2008
You found Pawn Power # 2, Tin Heart, Stinker's Stash, Sit Down and Shut Up, Goose Hollow

7/5/2008
You couldn't find Infestation

7/6/2008
You found V&T Rail Bed - Rally 2007, Lyon County Utilities - Rally 2007, Nevada Film Buff - Far From Home, 'On guard' Devils Gate, Liberty Engine Co., Crown Pt Ravine Never Looked Like This - Rally 07, So, this is Spanish Ravine? - Rally 2007, Old Yeller, Checkpoint X - Rally 2007, X Knob Viewpoint Sits Above the X - Rally 2007, Lahontan Valley View - Rally 2007, This is Transmitter City - Rally 2007, A Carson Valley View - Rally 2007

7/6/2008
You couldn't find Linehan Fire - Rally 2007, American Flat - Rally 2007, Quaken Aspens aka: Quakies - Rally 2007

7/6/2008
You reported X Knob Viewpoint Sits Above the X - Rally 2007 needs maintenance

Happy Birthday America!

While it seems most businesses would like people to believe the way to spend the Fourth is to go out and blow your paycheck - I spent it going out and enjoying one of the benefits of Freedom. By Geocaching!

182 to go!

7/4/2008
You found Dino Overlook, TJ's Lyon, Silver Springs Pass, Safe Keeping, Flood Gate: Pioneer Funnel, Flood Gate: Channel Through the Desert, Nikki's Super Secret Spot!, Boots Booty, Chicken Little, Flood Gate: Waterfall, Flood Gate: Hayden Torrent, Fishheads 2, flood gate fields, Four Way Stop, Patches Place, Liberty Pond, Poodle Pines, Dairy D' Lights, Little Ballpark, Oats Park, Where did Dolf go?, Big Ballpark, Fallon welcomes you, Pioneer Women

7/4/2008
You couldn't find Twilight Zone, Flood Gate: Conrad Waterfall, Flood Gate:Allyn, Squirt's Revenge!, "The Handyman" Cache, Keddie Cache, Hay, can i have a ride?

7/4/2008
You posted a note for Dead Bug

A goal of 212

Think it's possible?

Finding 212 caches before the end of July?

I think so - there's enough out there that I haven't found and with some dedicated days of just going and getting them, I should be able to pound out a fair number. Then head over the hill to the very meaning of the phrase Cache Saturation - California, and make that final bomb drop.

Why, might you ask, am I going to try in less than 30 days what it normally takes 2 to 4 months to do?

August 3rd, 2003 - Trekrr and I found our very first geocache. This year, we'll celebrate our 5h anniversary.

As of this morning, I need 214 caches to reach my 2000th.

Now, to celebrate 5 years with the signing of my 2000th log sheet would be a truly wonderful event. But, where oh where would really just elevate such an event to epic proportions??

My 1000th cache was the Original Stash Tribute Plaque, one part of the Northwest Trifecta. Three caches that nearly all cachers, at some point, suddenly get the urge to visit and have listed in their Found column. The remaining two caches are the headquarters for Groundspeak itself, the wonderful company that provides us all with the means to play this game, and one of two remaining A.P.E. caches, a series of 13 caches placed to promote the remake of the Planet of the Apes movie (the other lies in Brazil).

So - the plan:

Do an insane number run between now and July 31st. August 2nd, fly up to Seattle and rest for the day doing touristy Seattle stuff. August 3rd, find and log the APE cache. August 4th, shakes hands with the crew of Groundspeak (known, to us cachers, as Lackeys) in their office.

The plane tickets are bought, the hotel and rental car reserved, the permission obtained from Signal via Annie, and now all that remains is getting the 212 caches to put me at 1998.

I'm insane, I know. Obsessed even, some might say. Others may ask, what about 3000? I may answer - Tube Torcher II!

7/3/2008
You found Super K, Las Brisas, Is this even a park?, Village Shopping Center, The Bean, Honk-A-Goose

7/3/2008
You posted a note for Wade A Minute

7/3/2008
You couldn't find Shipping Magic Italian Money, Rock, Paper, River