Middle Of May and already slacking off ;)

And I don't have the excuse of not having anything to write about either.

The month started off with a breakfast at the Golden Corral with fellow geocachers. This event was to celebrate geocaching.com's 10 year anniversary. It was a pretty impressive event with about 70 or so geocachers in attendance. At the event there was food, fellowship, prizes, and a table of trackables (travel bugs and coins) that people wanted to have others discover or move on. It was great meeting people who I had only previously met online in the forums and on Facebook. We hung out with the gang for a couple of hours and then spent a couple of hours at Carowinds, the local amusement park.

Two weeks later, we went to our first Flash Mob event at McDowell Park/Nature Preserve. A Flash Mob is an event that takes place in turbo mode. You find the location, sign the log, hang out for a few minutes, take a group picture, and then disperse as quick as you got there. This event is abbreviated WWFM (World-Wide Flash Mob) and happens every year on the same day in many places all over the world. We grabbed another cache at this park and then headed home.

I also found a very nice spot by Birkdale Village in search of a cache called "Green Troll". This was an amazing and peaceful location about a 5 minute walk from the busy Birkdale Village shopping center. This is one of the things that I find so fun about geocaching. One minute you can be somewhere bustling with activity and minutes later you are on a trail or greenway that seems so untouched.

The local geocaching community GCGC (Greater Charlotte Geocaching Club) has actually participated in the Sponsor A Road/Highway program. We now have two signs by some roadway in Charlotte that we have adopted and agreed to help keep clean. There is a CITO event next month in which the GCGC is planning on doing just that. If I am able to attend I will post the pictures for that when we do so.

Well that is all for now. Enjoy the pictures....

Anniversaries, Milestones, and Firsts... OH MY!

Welcome to the new blog devoted to Team V3 and our caching adventures and any traveling we may do.

Geocaching-wise, April is a big month for us. This April is no exception. First of all, today is the two year anniversary of when we first created our geocaching account. Our first found cache was the Fort Williams Cache in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The cache ID for this one is GC128. This cache was the first cache hidden in the state of Maine and YES it is still there. If you are ever looking to visit Maine, I strongly recommend you check out this amazing and beautiful park. You will NOT be disappointed.

As of Saturday April 17th 2010, we have made our 200 milestone. I try to make it so that we celebrate milestones with something that is easy to remember. Our 200th came in the form of a parade at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It was also our first CITO event AND the first time visiting Rock Hill. The whole day was filled with fun activities, caching and meeting some very nice people. It also included a little friendly competition which came in the form of the Geo-Poker run.

The Geo-Poker run came in the form of 6 caches. 5 of these caches had different colored chips in them. Once you collected as many of these chips as possible, you had to check in at the camp and turn them in for cards. If you had a winning hand, you could leave with prizes. In the 6th cache there was a secret word. If you had the secret word, you were awarded with a very nice YoGO (York County Geocaching Organization) geocoin.

Besides all of the caching events, Rock Hill was bursting with activity as it was in the middle of their very popular Come See Me festival which draws people from all over.

Below I have some pictures from some of our Fort Williams caching in 2008. I will also add pictures from this past weekend as soon as I get them uploaded.

Cole posing with Thing 1 and Thing 2 this year.