Last Saturday marked our first caching anniversary. We realized at the end of February that at 73 caches in 11 months, we had a long way to go for the last 27 in just 5 weeks (we’re slow!). We spent the entire day of my birthday caching, I ran around doing some solo WSQs, and introduced my 4 year old niece to caching (she now knows what a GPS does and can tell you it works with satellites and know how to spot muggles (although she continued to announce loudly “we are NOT geocaching, we are JUST hiking, and we found THREE treasures!” haha.

We decided to save number 100 for our trip to Puerto Rico last week. By Wednesday we were cutting it close to our anniversary so we decided to go for a 5/5 near our cabin in the southern part of the rainforest (El Yunque). We spent three hours hiking a waterfall with no success (disappointing! and we picked up what we’re calling “poison rain forest”). The cache hadn’t been found since last July and since I logged our DNF it has been archived. We then took another 2 1/2 hour hike in northern El Yunque resulting in another DNF. I looked on my phone once we had service and it had been archived after running my original pocket query! Finally we headed in for dinner in San Juan and decided to go to the closest cache. Tired, hungry, and a little impatient we gave up on an easy one 😳 and then made a quick and easy fine near the harbor where the cruise ships come in. So we made our goal and were fortunate to do some caching in Atlanta and to the north near Kennesaw (a civil war park) during our layover on the way home while introducing some friends from that area to caching. 😀

I was also happy to hear once we got home that a TB lost since last July has resurfaced.