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When doing road trips, I plan caches along the route, and factor in some extra time. If I’m on/ahead of schedule, I do more caches, if I fall behind schedule, I skip them.
For longer trips, I will plan in 1/2 or full days of caching, with optional activites for the Mrs. if she doesn’t want to go. I’ll also look for caches in places I’m apt to visit anyway, such as state parks, places of historical interest, or road oddities.
When I went to Hawaii, the caching was the absolute best, taking me to non-touristy places, as well as forgotten about coves, waterfalls, and other beautiful areas.
On a trip to Alaska, rather than take the train from Anchorage to Fairbanks, we opted to drive instead, just to allow us to cache along the route.
The key to caching on vacation I’ve found is planning ahead of time, and being flexible enough to change the plan.
Happy hunting!
Holy cow! Congrats on the 10k, and good luck with the next 10k.
Sometimes my 503 month-old comes out caching with me. She sits in the car most of the time and either reads or naps. Occasionally she will jump out for a P&G, and if coaxed will come along on the trail. I do have to feed her around lunchtime or she gets crabby. Usually lunch is followed by another nap, especially if it’s a little warm in the car.
Whoops, misread the OP, my comments were about the spouse and not the kids.
Congrat Dave! See you on the trail…
I did a bunch of DC virtuals when I was driving through in late 2008. I got to town around 7pm or so, which was great since all of the parking opened up after business hours. I’m sure I didn’t look a bit suspicious wandering around looking at things with my flashlight…
This record didn’t pass the sniff test for me. It looks like all of the caches were placed a couple of days before the record was “broken”, and now all the caches are archived? Seems a little suspicious to me.
I’ll usually put in 15-20 minutes before I give up on it. I figure I’m saving time staying and looking than if I had to go back. I don’t mind trees or rock hides nearly as much as I hate nanos on tanks, trains, and other large things, especially when the hint is “magnetic”.
I listen to music when I’m caching on my bike (on trails), or when I’m doing longer hikes. Not only does it keep me moving at a faster pace, but my singing of showtunes keeps the critters away.
I would like to get in on a 2.5% share as well.
I saw the first fifteen minutes or so. “cache” was the first thing I thought of when I saw the ammo-can, even though I’ve never seen a cache ammo-box out in the open like that and marked “explosives”. I lost interest after that, and DNF’d the rest of the show. Christian Slater makes me sleepy.
Pere LaChaise remains my favorite cemetery that I have wandered around. Not only is it huge, but there are famous people at virtually every turn. When I was there, Morrison had security standing close by. Can you imagine having that job?
Personally, I LOVE cemetery caches. As an amateur genealogist and history buff, I started wandering around cemeteries long before I started caching. Through my travels I’ve visited Jim Morrison, Michelangelo, Ben Franklin, Custer, Lindbergh, Elvis (although he’s still alive), about 3/4ths of the US Presidents, and hundreds of other interesting people. When I’m at a gravesite it makes me stop and reflect about life and death and appreciate history and what people had to go through. I also consider many headstones to be works of art, as weird as that may sound, and it’s amazing how much work was put into some of the earlier stones that far surpass the laser-etched stones of today. If there were no caches in cemeteries, I would still continue to visit them. Check out findagrave.com to see who’s near you…
I use a PDA for paperless, and just have my cell phone with me in case I get into trouble that I can’t get myself out of. I have also used it as a camera on the trail. Of course, half the time I forget it and leave it in the car anyway.
I went to the picnic. I didn’t win anything. I didn’t really care because my intention of going to the picnic was to have a great day (which I did), and not win stuff. Did I seek out temps? No. I only picked up 2, and that’s because they happened to be on the path that I traveled picking up perms. I Knew beforehand that I had less of a chance to win goodies by not searching out temps, and that’s a Choice that I made, and I’d make the same choice again. To me the prize was the people I met, the stories I heard, and the fun I did have.
My first was a 1971 Chevy Impala that I lovingly called “Das Boot”. Ah, remember those days when you could tap (or be tapped) another car and you would only scuff the bumpers and wouldn’t total out both cars??
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