How cool to see such a long list of caches and TB listed on my account at Geocaching.com. I've been on three outings in the last 30 days now.
On 3/29, Team TBSM went out and worked 24 caches. All four of our dedicated cachers were out for this event, even after a night of wet snow. We did a bunch of "urban" caches up near Schaumburg, IL. The 24 caches in one day was a personal best for me and I logged my 200th cache find. The funny part was that this 200th find was in an outdoor gaming area in front of a Senior Center. Oh the irony of a grown man playing treasure hunt and having this be his 200th find.
On 4/4, I made a trip with my wife down to Valparaiso, IN. While she was in meetings Saturday AM and early afternoon, I went geocaching. I quit around 1pm to meet my son for lunch, but I had worked 11 caches by then. That's the most I have done while caching solo in a single day (and a half day at that). I purposely stayed toward the south-west side of town because we had plans for Team TBSM to visit Valpo later this month and we would be approaching from the north east.
And just last Sunday, 4/26, Team TBSM was to head toward Valpo. Regrettably, only myself and Baloo were able to make this trip. But we found 50 caches in that one day, a new personal best. Here it is Wed night and I just now finished logging those 50 finds, but I'm not complaining. I had made a comment earlier in the day about maybe making it to 50. And Baloo pushed me and worked extra hard as our navigator to find us those last caches that we would be able to work on our way home after dark. We got the last cache about 11:45pm.
So now that I am done logging, I have pulled up my own profile page and I see that I have worked 85 geocaches (and a number of Travel bugs) in the last 30 days. When I pull up the list tomorrow, those caches from 3/29 will no longer be listed on the page. I wonder how long it will be before I have so many caches on the 30 day log listing.
I'm having so much fun!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Team TBSM
Well, I have actually been doing lots of Geocaching in the last several weeks. It's about time I put up a new Geocaching Blog posting. I'll tell the stories of the outings another time. For this posting, let me introduce you to Team TBSM. I have to tell you about the team members and their handle or name on Geocaching.com, before I can explain the team name.
There is 'Baloo&BD' (aka. Dave), a long time friend of mine. We were Cub Scout leaders together. Those with any history in Scouting will recognize the reference to Baloo the Bear, teacher of the young boy, from the Jungle Book story. Besides Scouting, we used to work together at Ameritech. We were in a bowling league together (that might have come first). And we are both Ham Radio operators. And Baloo was the person that introduced me to Geocaching. He has a gift for teaching.
Next there is 'TheBaers' (aka. Mike). He's tall, moves fast and he is one heck of a geocacher. He seems to love it when a cache gets challenging. I have know Baer for the shortest time within this group. But what time we have spent together has been quite enjoyable. And we do have fun comparing our high tech gadgets.
Next comes me. I am know as 'kschu' on the Geocaching.com web site and many other on-line venues. I've been using the name as a login for over 25 years now. Say it fast and it sounds like a Sneeze, hence one of my nicknames is 'Sneezy'.
And finally, there is the "Cobbler Guy" (another aka. Dave). The Cobbler was also involved in Scouts when I met him several years ago. I think he was also introduced to Geocaching by Baloo.
So the team is made up of Two Bears, a Sneezy and a Meal. Hence the acronym TBSM. I don't know which one of the guys came up with that (it was not me). It is much simpler than writing out all of our names. And caching is a whole lot more fun when I am out doing it with these guys.
The next posts will describe the March and April TBSM outings and my own little outing in between. Milestones and/or record breakers in each.
There is 'Baloo&BD' (aka. Dave), a long time friend of mine. We were Cub Scout leaders together. Those with any history in Scouting will recognize the reference to Baloo the Bear, teacher of the young boy, from the Jungle Book story. Besides Scouting, we used to work together at Ameritech. We were in a bowling league together (that might have come first). And we are both Ham Radio operators. And Baloo was the person that introduced me to Geocaching. He has a gift for teaching.
Next there is 'TheBaers' (aka. Mike). He's tall, moves fast and he is one heck of a geocacher. He seems to love it when a cache gets challenging. I have know Baer for the shortest time within this group. But what time we have spent together has been quite enjoyable. And we do have fun comparing our high tech gadgets.
Next comes me. I am know as 'kschu' on the Geocaching.com web site and many other on-line venues. I've been using the name as a login for over 25 years now. Say it fast and it sounds like a Sneeze, hence one of my nicknames is 'Sneezy'.
And finally, there is the "Cobbler Guy" (another aka. Dave). The Cobbler was also involved in Scouts when I met him several years ago. I think he was also introduced to Geocaching by Baloo.
So the team is made up of Two Bears, a Sneezy and a Meal. Hence the acronym TBSM. I don't know which one of the guys came up with that (it was not me). It is much simpler than writing out all of our names. And caching is a whole lot more fun when I am out doing it with these guys.
The next posts will describe the March and April TBSM outings and my own little outing in between. Milestones and/or record breakers in each.
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