Events, 2017 continues with my caching being mainly limited to events or caches at / on the way to events.
The next of these was World Wide Flash Mob Day… I’ve been to many of these, the day seems to vary tremendously – I remember that one was on Star Wars Day (May 4th) so that was 6 weeks different to this, even Easter can’t vary that much. I wonder who chooses the day and what logic they use for it ?
The Caley Cache Fest organisers had set up a puzzle series – the PAWS Series, and published them a few weeks before the even to give people chance to find them, I had a fun afternoon at work solving them, most were about various aspects of Scotland, some were easy, some of the geographical ones I was able to solve because of previous holidays in Scotland and some just took google and google image search to solve. But I had all the answers ready… as did Bev, so on the Sunday I went off to the forest where the series was located with Firefox3, Clare from the Linedancers and Big Fish. Caches were signed as Team Ted – Ted being the canine part of Firefox3’s team Continue reading
SO, without YOSM’s to detour me from the boring direct roads from ‘a’ to ‘b’ I had to think of something else to do on my way up to Scotland for ‘The Caledonian Cache Fest’, a new event being held in the border region of Scotland. The first outing of the event was to be held in Peebles.
The answer to what to look for on my way up North without resorting to ‘normal’ caches was to devise a route up via old Virtual caches
And so Monday dawned and it was time to drive the 200 and odd miles home again, I had a route planned that took in a few more YOSM’s – as there was now only a week or so to go for YOSM’s I was prepared to drive a bit further out of my way to get a last few.
But first there was a final Kent Mega event to attend, the Dog Walk event (Not that I, like many of the attendees, had a dog to walk !)
The first Kent Mega was held on a Sunday, which was good in one way in that we didn’t have to take a day off work (Drive down Saturday, Event on Sunday, Drive home Bank Holiday Monday), But having the Mega on a Saturday with a full programme of events around it means that we have all day Sunday to explore the local countryside.
Kent Mega time again, and unlike the previous two I was not driving down to Coventry to go to the Mega with Adam (UKCacheMag) – he was going but in his camper van, whereas I was in a nice warm Premier Inn. Travelling by myself all the way to Kent of course meant I could have a winding journey down visiting numerous locations for Survey Monuments and Virtual caches Continue reading