Logging caches when you are tired… not a good idea.

Well as Cecil got his 600th find yesterday I thought I had everything planned out to make the run… except for logging when I was half awake and needing to comeback a relog a few this morning! We started in Greenwich and I had a pad with my countdown on it so that the virtual cache at the Prime Meridian would be #600. This was the plan and it was a pretty good one. I know that I can be forgetful at times and can even be called “random” so I was trying to make sure that everything worked out. That was until I back to hotel and started to log the caches. I pulled up the map and just started logging from the caches on the map… not my carefully orchestrated list. I suddenly came up with an extra cache! so I tweaked my logging order so it worked out and tried to get some sleep. Well, Sue comes along this morning (being all concrete/sequential) and reminds me that we skipped one of the Greenwich gate caches that I had logged! SO I go back and fortunately only need to delete a couple entries. I am not changing the map for the tracking coin… I’m an old Boy Scout, but its trail is close enough. My plan worked perfectly- I just didn’t. Cecil did get his 600th at the Prime Meridian and I bought a baseball cap to celebrate. As Cecil would say “ook!”

Cecil celebrates his 600th find at Greenwich after a lovely morning wandering the park and the town to get the numbers right.
Cecil celebrates his 600th find at Greenwich after a lovely morning wandering the park and the town to get the numbers right.

Since this is supposed to be somewhat autobiographical, I thought a quick comic about geocaching would be interesting. While exaggerating slightly this is kind of based on fact…  Sue lures me out to a really cool place under the guise of taking photos when really it is all about finding a geocache.  I do get some nice pictures, but sometimes there does seem to be an urgency to the entire trip.  So in honor of all those cachers out there who have a spouse or friend who is just that step ahead of them in their love of caching… here you go.  Also congratulations to Sue for being first to find (therefore first to meet the requirements) on the Indiana Epic Virtual Challenge (GC1ND58) which concluded with a lovely stroll to find the last cache (GC776E) on Saturday morning.