Caching in the News

While traveling to D.C., we passed through PA. I picked up an early bird edition of the Pittsburgh Sunday newspaper. Seeing colored comic strips on a Saturday felt odd. Anyway, I'm reading through the paper, and I see a front page article with the big photograph (above) in the Leisure section about GEOCACHING! How cool is that? The hobby is everywhere. I love the sentence that reads "About five years ago, there were four geocaches hidden in the park. Now, there are 22, at least two of which were hidden for or by children." Mr. GAIN thought that statistic was amazing. I think it is awesome. No Child Left Inside!

Caching in the District

After a long absence from caching (the weather, you know), I was able to get some very cool virtuals during Spring Break in Washington, D.C. last week. Here is one the kids renamed, "Ultimate Bird Perch." They hoped that any art they create in the future would not be used by birds, unless that was their intent. We are unsure if the artist wanted birds to use his sculpture or if he even considered birds during the design process. Would he consider birds to be art? asset or liability?

Caching in the District calls for many virtual caches, which is OK. No one wants to cause alarm with suspicious looking containers. And virtuals are somewhat rare since they have been replaced by waymarking. So that is kind of neat.

The most challenging aspect of virtuals in this area were fulfilling the photo aspect. We weren't carrying a camera on the day that I planned to visit most of the virtuals because of a White House tour (see the prohibited items list here). Thank you to A.J. for arranging the tour. I highly recommend a visit of the District to everyone, cacher or not. Peace to all!

Eclipsed

We waited and waited for the moon to completely disappear. It seemed to hang in the position that you see here for over 15 minutes, as if it could not decide whether to leave our sight. You may be able to click on the photo and see the perimeter edged in silver. It was really amazing.