TaGeez and I decided not to mess around. We wanted our 13 souvenirs from Geocaching.com's
Hidden Creatures challenge, and we wanted them now! Ok, maybe not that forceful, but we've had busy lives and a run up to Ortonville for a little geoart fun seemed just the ticket!
Our original intent was to complete both Syfun's
Honeybee and
Honeycomb, but the U.S. was under a heat advisory so we scaled back our efforts and left home before sun-up on Saturday to beat the heat!
As you can see, we were victorious! We needed 88 caches to earn all 13 souvenirs, and we came home with 90 including 85 puzzles and 5 high-favorited ones.
Lovely tour of country back roads, mainly dirt. In addition to 85 power drink containers, there were over a dozen wild turkeys, deer, horses, swans, chipmunks, blue jays, cardinals, biting deer flies and one pissed off next of hornets (TaGeez was attacked and two made contact - ouch!) There was also lots and lots and lots of poison ivy.
Not much Roadside America in this region of the state - all we saw was the Statue of Liberty north of Milford. There were, however, a number of historic cemeteries and one pioneer home site.
This one was quite sad. Dozens of victims of a cyclone at the turn of the last century. Poor little pup-pup waiting for a young master who will never return home.
This was the 88th find of the day and the one that earned us the World Turtle souvenir! Woot!
But my favorite was the
TB Hotel near Highland. We didn't want to leave it empty and had no trackables to leave so we just discovered the trackables and left them behind.
It was a lovely tour of the countryside, and we enjoyed earning every last souvenir. With weather "feels like" 105 degrees and the poison ivy so lush, maybe we'll wait until Fall for the Honeycomb. Victory dinner at Buddy's Pizza in Novi - yummy!
