Geocaching with Woo

I completed the Wonders of the World souvenir campaign today. The campaign began on August 12 with an unofficial end date of December 31. It looks like due to COVID-19 most of the campaigns have extended dates. What would originally have taken three to four weeks to complete now gets three to four months - or longer! I won't say that I don't like having all of this time to earn these souvenirs, but without the urgency to get out and find caches, I feel like I'm not going out as much. I had originally planned to piggy back the Memory Lane and Wonders of the World caches, in order to get the most bang for my caching buck, but I ended up going out of state for two of the three days that it took for me to complete both campaigns, so I didn't need to be conservative. How did this campaign work? Caches were assigned digital Wonders of the World attributes, Modern and/or Ancient. In order to earn the first souvenir, Modern Wonders of the World, you had to collect each...

International Geocaching Day is fast approaching! It is celebrated on the third Saturday of August every year, and this year, if you log any cache type on August 15 or 16, 2020, you'll earn the souvenir.

I completed the Memory Lane campaign today. I've just come through a rough couple of weeks, and Tom thought that going out Geocaching would give me something to be happy about, so we planned for today to be the day. Since Tom had recently had some problems with his back, he requested that the geocaching be easy-going. I'd just put out an Adventure Lab, so I thought we could go ahead and grab some of the Adventure Labs in the area, as well as some caches that were close to each stop. This ended up working out really well. The Memory Lane campaign allowed Adventure Labs to be counted in the final point count, so after beginning the day with 55 points and having earned only two souvenirs to date, I ended up with 255 points and the final three souvenirs!     I liked that there were different point values for different caches, so that I could maximize the value of the caches that I visited - if I wanted to. In order to complete this campaign, a maximum of 40 or a min...

Well, I've done it - I finally published my Adventure Lab! I'm so proud of the content and the work that I put in to it. My Adventure Lab will take the geocacher around Havre de Grace, to a few points of interest from the War of 1812. Two of the locations are where the British came ashore on May 3, 1813 to burn and pillage the town, and the other three locations are buildings that remain standing from that time period. I added a few fun factoids that I had learned about each location as well as clues for a bonus geocache. The posted coordinates for the bonus cache are for another house that remains from the War of 1812, but that, of course, is not where the cache is - I was hoping to find a way to incorporate that house, and so I have. The original deadline to publish the Adventure Lab was May 1, but after COVID-19 hit, it was extended to August 1. Not too long ago, another extension was granted, to some time in October, but with a caveat - if the Adventure Lab was publ...