Heartbreaks of Geocaching

Is it poosbile to Geocache without a GPS? YES! I did a multicache yesterday (a cache with more than one coordinate. One coordinate leads you to the next, so on and so on.) and found the final stage without my GPS. Here's the lowdown:

The first coordinate that I had had me in a guys backyard. Well, technically I wasn't in his yard, but I was close enough that I was just waiting for him to call the cops on me. I love Geocaching, but it's not worth getting arrested for! So, I left that area. Now, I had a travel bug that I picked up in HI and I needed to get rid of it. This was my last cache for a few days and I really wanted to get it done. From the description of the cache from the website I had a pretty good idea of where the final cache was. I wanted to place one in that same area, so I figured I'd take a look and hope it was there.

I parked my car and started the hike (without my GPS unit). I rounded the pond, found the tree, looked under the loose concrete and there it was! Exactly where I thought it would be and where I wanted to hide my cache (if I ever decided to hide one). I was disgruntled that day from previous caches, but I was glad to give the travel bug a new home and to be done for the day. I found 2 of 4 caches. Very disappointing.

So...I am super horrible at geocaching, yet super amazing at the same time. Maybe I should always go caching without a GPS! Maybe I'd do better:)

Mahalo Hawaii

I had an AMAZING time in Hawaii. It was chaotic at times, but restful. Every time my mind started wondering towards work things, I'd look at a palm tree, the ocean, or start playing with one of the nephews and it'd all disappear. Amazing.

There's so much to tell, so I'll just give a few highlights:

Went snorkeling with my brother in the North Shore area. It was great. The fish were beautiful and colorful and it felt like I was in an aquarium. At one point my brother grabbed my hand (scaring the be-jeezers outta me. I thought he was a fish trying to eat me!) and drug me through the water. He brought me to a TURTLE! I couldn't believe it. The creature was huge with these beautiful, dark, almond-shaped eyes. It was looking right at me and it was so close that we could've touched it. I was snorkeling at "my" beach a few days later and came across another turtle. We swam together for awhile. Well, it swam, I followed.


Shawn and I went geocaching near our condo and came across a super-sketchy area. It was a trash dump that somebody was/is living in. We didn't want to hike all the way back the way we had come so Shawn (the big bro that he is) went first, picked up a club and cleared the way. I grabbed a huge nut (bolts and nuts, not peanut nut) to throw if somebody came at us. Once we found the trail we needed it was a fun rock climb up to the top. The views were breathtaking. We took his boys to an easier cache later that week. Lucas loves a good treasure hunt!



Lets see...we did some skimboarding, relaxing on the beaches, building "sandcastles", went to a Luau...just...existed. I'm usually a get-up-and-go vacationer, but this was perfect. Sitting, not thinking about things that bring you down, relaxing, had a few mai tais, hanging with the coolest boys...I need to vacation like that more often!