The hosts of my favorite podcast recently issued a challenge to their listeners: find seven different types of geocaches on seven consecutive days. I attempted and accomplished it. You can read my individual logs at the links below but here is what I sent Team PodCacher:
I had a great time with your seven types in seven days challenge. My weeklong adventure started off slowly with some urban micros but really picked up on Day 3.
I took a short drive to a virtual cache at the largest single-family home I have ever seen. Well, sort of. It was started by former NBA star Hakeem Olajuwon. The story goes that his wife didn’t want to live in the area anymore, so the project was left unfinished. It’s currently being completed as the future home of a school. There is a LARGE garage (more than four doors!!); a full size, indoor basketball court; and quite a few smaller guest houses. At more than 7,000 square feet, it is truly breathtaking!
Days 5 and 6 were also quite memorable. I did an earth cache that required driving to several spots along a fault line in Houston. Yes, you read that right: a fault line in Houston, Texas! I took several altitude measurements and learned that not all faults cause earthquakes. Some just demand periodic repaving of affected streets. The next day, I found a letterbox hybrid cache that’s part of a series about different Christmas traditions around the world. This particular cache was all about how the holiday is celebrated in France. I felt obliged to write my log in French, so I turned to good ol’ Google Translate. I hope it makes sense when someone who actually knows the language reads it. C’est la vie!
I capped off the week at a monthly eat-n-greet event with some of my best friends. We ate. We laughed. We shared trackables and told stories. It was a good time, as always, and a great way to finish this challenge. Thanks for the idea! As I’ve mentioned, I had a lot of fun. Even learned some things and snagged the annual earth cache souvenir.
Happy caching!
~ myrthman
10/9/2019 Traditional GC81PR4
10/10/2019 Mystery GC81DBQ
10/11/2019 Virtual GCF44D
10/12/2019 Multi GC1WG51
10/13/2019 Earth GC1QQ32
10/14/2019 Letterbox GC6VFB2
10/15/2019 Event GC8DV1C
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