A day geocaching.

Yesterday was a day of geocaching for me, Michelle, her daughter Hayley and her boyfriend Wyatt. The day started off with us taking our travel bug from the previous week, All Smiles and Hugs, and dropping it off at another location. We dropped it off at our first cache of the day, Cooper's Rock TB Dropoff where we dropped off that travel bug and found multiple other ones at that location. So, we left ours and removed the Melvin the Christmas Martian Travel Bug to place it at another location.

Our second stop of the day was a really easy cache in Deep Creek Lake called Run Cabin, Run. This would be a great cache for anyone who has never geocached before to start with. Very simple, easy to get to and pretty easy to find. I did manage to drop my camera at this cache and didn't realize it until we were a few miles down the road. So, we were parked at the Honi Honi Bar in Deep Creek and realized I lost my camera back at the previous cache. After backtracking to the previous cache, we found the camera and it was off to thee next cache.

Our third Cache of the day was called Deep Creek Lake View and was high atop the mountain beside Deep Creek Lake. I knew this would be a tough terrain, so we limited tough terrains caches for the day to one and this was the one we selected because of our proximity to the previous Cache. When we arrived at that cache, we dropped off Melvin the Christmas Martian and picked up another travel Bug called Travel Bug Dog Tag and took it with us to place at another cache (at a later date, we still have it).

After finding this cache it was a long hike back down the Mountain back to the car and a chance for everyone to enjoy a little bit of time at Deep Creek Lake. This was the first time Michelle or Hayley had ever been there, so it made me feel pretty good for being able to introduce them to a place of such serenity and peacefulness. I think they had a great time.

After leaving Deep Creek, I treated everyone to dinner at Smiley's Pizza before we took off to Springs PA to try to get Kim's Cereal before or if the Springs Store was open. We were not that fortunate, the store was closed by the time we had reached it.

Then it was off for our fourth Cache of the Day, the FSU Micro located at Frostburg State University. This was the smallest cache I have seen, most are ammo boxes, this was a 35 MM film container, but it was an easy location and Michelle beat Wyatt, he had found the previous three, at finding this micro cache.

After four successful cache finds, it was back to Morgantown after a long and successful day of geocaching. Last night I purchased a few Tags to create our own travel bugs that we will make and place in caches in the near future. This will allow us to track the travel of our own persoanlized travel bugs.

Have a good day.