A Year in MINIons- MINIon #5300

5300Today was the Annual Spring Picnic for Indiana Geocachers. Held this year at Turkey Run State Park (Yes, Hoosiers come up with strange names for places) it was a lot of fun, so I decided to honor the event with MINIon #5300.

I have figured out that the readership of this comic/blog falls into a few categories- Friends who Own MINI Coopers, Friends who Geocache, Friends of friends who own MINI Coopers or Geocache, other friends, the NSA, and family. So for the the non-geocachers out there I’ll go with the basic “My hobby is using a multi-billion dollar satellite system to find Tupperware in the woods” to explain geocaching. For MINI owners think of it as a cross country rally in which you stop every so often to search for hidden items in out of the way places that are really cool to get to- a ginormous worldwide scavenger hunt.  Almost every place we stopped on MTTS for a ” Surprise and Delight” had a cache within 100 yards.

The one thing both MINI and Geocaching have in common are a great community, hence driving out to Turkey Run for the day to meet with friends and talk over adventures. While I’m definitely not a “Hardcore Cacher” I do enjoy the hunt when time permits and today caching had me heading up a stream to see a fantastic waterfall, which was not a bad way to spend a day.