I can answer some of this question. I have adopted 16 of the State of Minds from Socko. He could no longer maintain them all. Uncle_Fun also adopted 20 or so.
Upon talking with Socko about the series, he didn’t seem a need to use the code words any longer. It was an additional way to determine the first cacher/ team to complete the series. So, you don’t have to e-mail the code words.
Uncle_Fun and I do plan on changing some of them to other caches and series. However, we have decided to not change any of them until roughly Labor Day. We wanted to keep the series active for at least 1 full year.
The caches that were archived are in the process of being moved or replaced. Some were missing and some had other issues for being archived.
As far as the Washington DC cache, Socko would have to answer that one.
Hope this answers some of your questions.
Lost Boyscout
