Tool Tip: Adding Calendar Events from Cachly

As a technology trainer, I’m prone to be curious anytime a new app or feature rolls out. Admittedly, in the past, I wasn’t a super fan of Cachly, having been forced-migrated (kicking and screaming) from Geosphere. However, with some recent feature changes and my latest discovery (below), my hat is fully in the Cachly ring!

Southeastern Michigan is a caching community, and we have events weekly in the suburbs of Detroit. At the beginning of each month, I run a query of events and manually add them to my iPhone’s calendar. This month, however, I noticed something on my Cachly screen when I opened Frito’s New Year’s Eve event.

What's this?

Ok, I obviously missed something at some time. So, curious as a (scrap)cat, I clicked the button.

WOAH! Did that just happen?!? It created an event appointment! It has everything I normally manually type: event name, GC# and event URL! Plus, it even adds coordinates! The only thing it doesn’t update is the time – it defaults to “All Day”. That makes sense since date is a cache attribute when you create the page, but time is not – it’s added to the write-up.

WOW!

First, update the Start and End times. Optional: invite other attendees, set alarms, allow for drive time. And then click Add. Voila!

Update the times and click Add!

Accessing my calendar, I can now see my events.

And, clicking into it, there are my details plus a map!

Sometimes the little things are actually big things. 

Now to add the HNY19, Taco Tuesday, Livonia Traveling Group, Warren Chill Spot, Southeastern Oakland, and I-275 events to Outlook. Time saved leaving me more time to cache.

Souvenirs are Shiny Ornaments on our Geocaching Tree

WOW! That's a little eye-opening! I'm a cliche!

I had a good laugh when I earned the Trackable Lover souvenir for December. It resembles so many trackable lovers I know!

This is not the only souvenir earned this month. Geocaching.com surprised millions of geocachers in December when it awarded five new country souvenirs including THE UNITED STATES! It makes total sense, though. How many geocachers visit from overseas annually? Admittedly, I'm not a big fan of the actual souvenir, but one more closer to some challenges.

This will not be our last chance to earn souvenirs this year. They announced the Last/New Year souvenirs in December, too.

Earning the souvenirs is easy: 

• Find a geocache or attend an event on December 31 to earn the Thanks 2018 souvenir. 

• Find a geocache or attend an event on January 1 to earn the Hello 2019 souvenir.

Luckily, TaGeez and I will have no problem earning these souvenirs with Frito Bandito's Last Day of a Great 2018 event and gsix5666's HNY19 - 10th Annual New Year's Day M&G. It's in the bag!

Unintentional TB Rescue

Steve and I went to pickup a cache we're archiving for HNY19 (new one going in). No container but this trackable was sitting out in the open at the base of the tree.

Gives you an idea why so many go missing.

Thankful for a New Challenge

Something new on the horizon.

TaGeez and I took up a new challenge this month. Someone posted on one of the FB sites of a Puzzle Grid Challenge.  The checker is for a German cache, but this challenge can be found all over the US and Canada, too. 

Simply, find a puzzle cache on each date of the year. I checked it out and am relatively close to success - BOOYA! I'm pretty excited because after 6+ years of cache-a-day I'm needing a new motivator. With the exception of November 3rd (I heard of this challenge on the 4th) TaGeez and I cleaned up November and are looking at the 8 needed days in December. Our new goal is to complete this by end of next year. Luckily we have Leap Day.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I'm thankful for all our geocaching friends and experiences!

Screw Loose Caching in this Weather

The weather outside is frightful...

but this kind of hide makes it delightful...

A park and grab on the go

Let's get out of the snow! The snow! The snow!

GIFF 2018 - TFTC

There are harder ways to earn a souvenir.....

2018 GIFF Viewing Party! - Ferndale, MI GC7YJ68

... than spending an afternoon watching geocaching shorts.....

... at the Ferndale Library with friends.

There were several enjoyable films, but this one made me chuckle. 

NINE THOUSAND SMILIES!

Still on that major project at work - such an insanely busy time - and I forgot to post about my milestone!

9,000 FINDS!

TaGeez and I enjoyed the Historic Greenmead Virtual in Livonia placed by Dave&Mary

The day was overcast and many of the leaves had fallen, but it was a beautiful day.

I owe a great deal to this man. Thank you, TaGeez, for always being there!