Banner Week for Geocaching

Geocaching.com is having a banner week with happenings and announcements!

GEOWOODSTOCK 2018

Cachers from all around the world are heading to GWS18 in Cincinnati, Ohio- America's first Giga event. Requiring at least 5,000 attendees, I believe the event will far exceed that with the draw of "first Giga" and the location of Coney Island. Interesting fact: 95% of Coney Island's traffic is at the waterpark versus the amusement rides. Use that as a deciding factor when selecting your park option with Saturday's rainy forecast.

Highlights on this trip with the fabulous WikidKriket and SnakeyLicks will be the Giga souvenir, taking our pictures in front of the GEOWOODSTOCK sign and the 30 lab caches. Regrettably we won't have the time for the two new geotrails but hope to do them this summer when the mega trail in Cincinnati is released.

Join the GeoWoodstock Facebook group and bookmark the very helpful FAQ if you are going.

NEW TRACKABLE PROMOTION

Yesterday at noon an email went out announcing the latest trackable promotion: DuckTales with Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby. I posted to the Southeastern Michigan Geocaching Community (almost a thousand strong!) right away and POOF! It appears they ran out of the 5,000 commissioned. Now cross our fingers TaGeez or I will win one! No idea what they look like yet, but, as you can track them individually, they must be character-specific. I hope it does better than our Magic the Gathering trackables. 

#DuckTalesCache

NEW SOUVENIRS, TOO!

This last announcement elated me for about 5 minutes, but now I have mixed feelings. Complete an official Geocaching.com geotour and earn a special Geotour souvenir. Cool, right? But I completed the Smithonian Natural History Geotour and the Butler County Donut Trail and didn't receive one retroactively. Rumors are flying in the groups - the Butler County geotour now has 15 stops but only 13 when we completed it. The Smithsonian one (which cost us a fortune in time and expense) has since been archived. There's also a little bit of conflicting information on Facebook and the forums so I guess time will tell. 

Amazing how some people take a virtual sticker to seriously!

NATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY

Today is National Volunteer Day and TaGeez & I want to thank DeRock, VanMan, Allenite, Rusty, and all the volunteer reviewers for all the hours you spend putting up with this craziness so that we can have geocaches to find. THANK YOU!