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!

Spring is Peeking Around the Corner

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

6 Years: A Little Streaking Never Hurts!

Six times around the sun!

Yesterday was 60 degrees and sunny so, of course, we had to have a blizzard on this great milestone day! After a failed FTF and with snowflakes coming down, TaGeez and I grabbed this little guy to  complete six straight years of cache-a-day streaking!

ShelleyJean asked if I'm going to make it a seventh. I guess it all depends on what the weather is like tomorrow :)

Walking the Streets of Detroit

Saturday rolled around, and I had the itch for adventure. We have to be careful because the mileage is racking up on my lease, so TaGeez suggested putzing around Eastern Market. Does he know me or what? Devries and then lunch is right up my graffiti-lined alley!

And, as luck would have it, we took a turn onto an unknown street and discovery was around the corner! Pretty fabulous, isn't it? So new it's not even on Google Earth yet! So, of course, we had to hide a cache here :) 

I think our adventure was meant to be as we found an empty spot in front of Supino's Pizza.  And, after a delicious yet costly stop at the DeVries Cheese Shoppe across the way, we settled in here for lunch.

The Smokey is now my new favorite: Smoked prosciutto, roasted garlic, chopped parsley, mozzarella, smoked Gouda, and ricotta. We asked for a small bowl of pizza sauce to use for dipping the very thin crust.

Note to self: Don't waste your time with the medium pizza. ALWAYS GO BIG! We found out too late they serve tiramisu, too. That will motivate a speedy return - HAHA!

Back to the streets to work some of it off. In Eastern Market, you must look down every alley.

And in every shop door. 

This lovely was inside the Detroit vs Everybody shop door, and you pass her to head downstairs.

Ah, another Shinola clock in Detroit - this one in Eastern Market's Shed #3.  We picked up the freshest cabbages and Brussels sprouts for around $4. After heading down to the fish market for shrimp, TaGeez has the makings for his amazing shrimp tacos with sriracha slaw for under $10 - nom nom nom ("nom" is "yum" in Thai - did you know that?)

Did I mention caching? 

Ok, spoiler alert - if you don't have this yet, scroll past to the next picture. 

Cute as heck! Sherlock423's My Dogs are Barking is about a block over from Eastern Market. It plays songs, too!

After a find and a maintenance run, back on the back streets of Eastern Market to explore the back alleys for urban art (and potential cache placements).

My favorite one of the day (and maybe all time). This beauty is actually hidden on the opposite side of my Urban Art: To Beat the Band hide - but you'd never know it unless you drove down a dead-end alley and peered to the left as you were turning around. How many of these are we missing?

Yes, it was a very good day. You can find adventure anywhere!

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!

That's Creepy Weird

One of my geocaches sent an "I miss you" email to DarrylW4. Not kidding.

Apparently it's a Geocaching.com gimmick to lure geocachers back to caches that they've DNF'd recently. And the gimmick is in the form of a Valentine on this Valentine's Day.

Better keep an eye on my caches - seems they can become lonely.

Weird. Creepy.

Happy Valentine's Day, ya'll!