Saturday, January 25, 2020

New Adventure Lab: Detroit Firsts!

I published my Adventure Lab yesterday!


Welcome to Detroit's Campus Martius! 
It is considered the heart of the city and the symbol of Detroit's rebirth. However, it also embraces Detroit's colorful history. The Motor City is internationally known as the birthplace of the automotive assembly line and the hub of the auto industry, but it should be celebrated for its many other "FIRSTS", too. 
This adventure lab is a 5-stop art tour of Campus Martius, sharing Detroit Firsts, both old and new! From start to stop, this tour is a half mile stroll through downtown Detroit. If you start from the North you will end at the Detroit riverfront.  
Come by car, Q-Line, People Mover, ride sharing or the famed Detroit Slow Roll, but try to avoid coming down during Festivals or late at night. It is an urban city.

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Speaking of Adventure Labs, I really enjoyed these "play anywhere" Labs 

NETCHVILSKI: LABrador

The Professor has been kidnapped! Work you way through a series of puzzles
ala MOAP (Mother of all Puzzles).



PROJECT-GC Adventure Lab

Take a quick tour (and learn a thing or two) of Project-GC.com


Friday, January 24, 2020

New GeoTrail: Mark Your Calendar for June 6th


Just announced on Facebook:

The Kirtland's Warbler GeoTrail will be launched on June 6, 2020 at the Kirtland's Warbler Festival in Roscommon. There will be 25 caches in a loop from Roscommon to Grayling to Mio to St. Helen to Roscommon with a geocoin reward for finding 20 of the 25 and answering the question in the cache.




Thursday, January 23, 2020

Fun in All Directions Souvenir

On Sunday February 2, 2020, find any geocache, Adventure Lab* or attend any event to earn the "Fun in all directions" souvenir.


Wednesday, January 22, 2020

MWGB: Is It Just Me?


I'm on the MWGB event page. Does anyone else notice anything odd about this paragraph?

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

2019 Year in Review


Did you see this in your Inbox? Pretty cool stats, and I'm doing our part! 2019 found me...

* Almost 8 year Cache-a-day streak
* 795 caches found across 6 states
* 100 Michigan State Parks visited
* 83 Michigan Counties visited
* 48 FTFs (currently 95 months of FTFs)
* 21 new souvenirs earned
* 16 new caches hidden
* 11 trackables activated
* 1 GeoTour completed


Sunday, January 5, 2020

Caching New Year!



HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Nobody celebrates like the Southeastern Michigan Geocaching Community!

Kicking out the the old and kicking off the new (plus earning two new souvenirs), 
we headed to 3 HNY events within 24 hours!

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First up was Team Gate's celebration on New Year Eve at noon. Welcome to Warren City Hall!

19 - The Final Hours Flash Mob GC8H26B

After freezing our butts off, we donned our good wares, grabbed the deviled eggs, and head off to Frito's Open House in Livonia. There we solve jigsaw puzzles and geocaching origami, alongside friends playing board games. We stay until midnight to ring in the new year.

Celebrating the Year to Come: A 20/20 Vision GC8FR5E

But once we toast, time to grab our dishes as run because we have to be up early for Team GSIXX5666's Happy New Year event across town in Warren. All proceeds for breakfast goes to Hope Lutheran's trip to Haiti this year. Path tags, door prizes and kayak raffles next. 

HNY20 - 11th Annual Geocaching Breakfast Event GC8CZ63

After a hearty breakfast and a lot of laughter, we head out into the cold to find as many of the 206 newly hidden caches (hidden by local cachers) as possible. TaGeez and I hid 18 this, and we were lucky enough to score almost a dozen first to finds!

Our first FTF! And it's a T5!

TaGeez and I hit the rode alone this year, but it gave us some much needed 'us' time on our geo-adventure. First-to-finds and then a relaxing lunch at a new restaurant and caches some more.

Such an amazing start to the new year with friends!

Let's keep it going! My geo-resolution this year is more road trips with friends.

SOURCE: Geocaching.com

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 A special THANK YOU to Frito Bandito and the McGuire family for my new snowflake trackable!


Please feel free to discover my trackable - it has a fabulous icon.
In your log, please let me know where you are from!


TaGeez and I are wishing you many new smilies and adventures in the new year!