Is Somebody Watching?

TaGeez and I were at Dinosaur Hill, grabbing our daily, when I heard something uncomfortably close to my years.

Hey! Hey! You see it? It's right there!

Tomorrow is the last full day of the Planetary Pursuits Challenge, and I've been tracking our adventures with my Planetary Pursuits Marble. Oh, the things we do for 10 virtual souvenirs!

Kudos to Geocaching.com for updating the marble's icon from the generic travel bug to something more spacey!  

Landed our Planetary Pursuits

Bright Saturday morning found us in the freezing (24 degrees) outdoors...

Heading to the North to work on the MOTel-T geo-art (created by TomasDiaz and hidden by GSIXX) on the MOT Apple trial. 

Accompanied by WikidKriket, we happily completed half of them.

It's always a fun adventure with my sister and my Sweetie. What is this thing about bridges, though?

30 caches in 3 hours it was definitely a lovely walk. 

And, with that, we earned our last four souvenirs including the Official Space Explorer!

Then back into the car and race to Harrison Township. Team Gates is hosting a Geocaching 101 event, and TaGeez & I hid the temporary caches for finding.  

As you can see, there were more geocachers than locals! Great time!

We’re In Pursuit

TaGeez and I have already earned 4 planets in the first two days. This is the fun way to complete this challenge!

Looking at my Friends League, quite a few have already earned all 10 of them. I'm seeing this on the YMBAGI Facebook group, too. Some of my friends decided to save themselves the trouble of earning points by dropping their trackable collection into a geocache - 4 points apiece.  I'm not judging - everybody plays the game their own way. 

Planetary Pursuit Scoring

What are the 10 souvenirs that I can earn?

Souvenirs	Points needed on the Friend League (individual)
Planetary Pursuit: Earth	5 points
Planetary Pursuit: Venus	10 points
Planetary Pursuit: Mercury	20 points
Planetary Pursuit: Mars	40 points
Planetary Pursuit: Jupiter	65 points
Planetary Pursuit: Saturn	100 points
Planetary Pursuit: Uranus	200 points
Planetary Pursuit: Neptune	300 points
Planetary Pursuit: Pluto	500 points
Official Space Explorer	Collect all planet souvenirs (500 points) and earn this meta souvenir.

How can I earn points?

If you log a cache, attend an event, or perform other geocaching actions, you collect points.

Action	Point value
Log a Found it on any geocache (Traditional, Virtual, Webcam, Wherigo)	5
Log a Found it on a Multi-Cache or Letterbox Hybrid	10
Log a Found it on a Mystery Cache or EarthCache	15
Log a Found it on a geocache with 10 or more Favorite points	15
Attend any event	15
Drop off trackable	4

Source

Planetary Challenge Time!

TaGeez and I have a nice geoart set aside for this upcoming beautiful weekend! The HNY-17-MOTel-T geoart is 59 puzzle caches along the 24-Mile Macomb Orchard Trail.

That will net us 885 of the 500 points needed to earn Geocaching.com's 10 souvenirs during its 3-week Planetary Pursuit challenge.

Ah! Time to #getoutside and #gogeocaching - woot!