Geocaching - Geocaching Road Trip and our First Event Cache

This past summer we got to participate in the Geocaching Road Trip Challenge! You had to complete five challenges over the summer to earn your road tip hero award! We are always excited when Geocaching.com does these challenges and this summer was no different!

First was our fun with favorites cache! We found GC4KMTF - Simply Amazed. we won't give away any secrets, but there's a reason this one had a bunch of favorite points!

One of my favorite ones was Let's Get Extreme!

Each geocache has a difficulty rating and a terrain rating. Difficulty tells you how well it's hidden. Terrain tells you how hard it is to get to it. You had to find a geocache with a highest rating of 5 in either of these categories in order to get this souvenir! We went after GC4BVWW - 50/50. We had to climb a tree to find this one!

My husband, flyingag11, up in the tree going after the cache. I would go up after him to put it back!

What was fun about this cache is we made a day of it. We were out at the lake and found many caches along the way which made for a fun filled day all around.

Next up was a double for us, High Five for the Earth where we found an Earth Cache! And we decided to host our first event in order to earn our event cache!

We headed down to the lake again to go after GC1G6F1 - Waterfalls of Lake Worth. What's so great about Earth caches is you learn so many interesting things about the Earth, it's geology, and you see some pretty cool places you didn't know existed! We also had an interesting time learning the in's and out's of hosting our first event. We first figured out that instead of hoping someone would host an event that would coincide with work schedules, we should just pick a date that we know will work and invite others to come along. We also realized some people don't even look at the description and freak out about the terrain (even when we warned them about it). But we got to meet some pretty awesome people which was fun! We had a great time hiking and getting to know each other!

Our geocaching crew!

Last on our list was a puzzle cache. We are not the greatest at these, but we were excited when we solved GCYJNW - Price Check On Register 5 pretty fast. After a few times around the block to figure out where to park, we picked this one up pretty quick to finally earn our...

ROAD TRIP HERO!

We had a ton of fun doing these challenges. It keeps the game fun and gives us specific goals to achieve. We hope you got to participate and we look forward to next year's challenge!