Spring CITO Season

With all the pain and strife in the world, geocaching is the perfect escapism. And, as Mr Rogers said, "Always look for the volunteers." So TaGeez and I took CITO season as the perfect opportunity to get out and give back. We not only did one but four! 

Spring Pool Party 2025 GCB2Y1W

Ah, the annual pool party outside of Kensington Metropark. It was a park & ride that had a pretty rough winter. Beforehand, we headed to the Nature Center and spent some fabulous reprieve watching the swans and herons.

CITO Great Lakes National Cemetery Stone Cleaning GCB4Z76

This was a unique experience! GLC hosted a CITO at the Great Lakes National Cemetery outside Holly where we went to clean headstones! How humbling cleaning headstones in Section 4! I was so impressed with the number of volunteers! After we earned our volunteer patches, we headed over towards Independence Township for a challenge cache trail.

NOMAG spring CITO 2025 GCB4Y1D

You can always count on Syfun to host a fun event. This one was a roadside clean-up that spanned about a mile and a half outside of Pine Knob. For as often as we cache it, it was time to show it some love. As with all the CITO spots, there was so much winter debris.

Belle Isle Spring CITO GCB525M

We attended the last one today, and, for the first time, we had rain. We have been so lucky with weather these last 2 weeks! As per usual, TaGeez and I trekked several miles down the backroad behind the Nature Center. Collectively, we filled 6 bags, mostly of bottles versus trash. 

It was so great seeing old friends and getting fresh air after this long winter! Now that we've cleaned up our gameboard, time to get back to working on our puzzle lists! We have found 25% of our solved puzzles since the new year!

Spring is Peeking Around the Corner

... just like TaGeez! Haha! I love caching with him ☀️

A Spring in our Geocaching Step!

Oh, I thought the insanity of winter was going to get the better of me. Luckily, we had a little warm-up in Southeastern Michigan, and TaGeez & I got out for some Vitamin D and geocaching!

How about you? Did you make it out?

Saturday found us in Rochester where we had a surprising find outside a bakery - a nice surprise in the container used to treat ourselves to a shared bumpy cupcake inside - YUM! Look how cute these cakes are!

And Sunday we headed to Ypsilanti. Have you seen their water tower? How can you take life seriously with THAT appearing on the horizon? 

It was a relaxing drive in the sunlight along US 12/Michigan Avenue. 

Lots of park and grabs netted us 17 smilies before heading to downtown Ypsi for lunch at Maiz. 

So nice going out and getting our feet wet (and muddy!)

29 days until Spring!