Good morning from Omaha, Nebraska, where we’ve been for a couple days and hopefully only an hour or two more. Actually, it’s not so horrible here – the hotel I picked turned out to be pretty awesome, if not for the many guests under the age of 3. Omaha is pretty and full of hills, a welcome change from the flatness of Kansas and Missouri.
I found my 1400th geocache a few days ago in Oklahoma City, so I thought I’d share some more geocaching adventures.
#600 Henry Woodfin Grady (Houston, Texas)
This one was pill bottle not far from my apartment. I remember having to rush to school afterwards so I just got a quick pic and left.
#700 Bellaire Nite Owl (Houston, Texas)
This one was a large protein powder container hidden in a tree in Bellaire. Again, nothing too out of the ordinary here.
#800 The Last Bodiddle! (Humble, Texas)
I hadn’t ever gotten any caches in Humble, a northern suburb of Houston, so I went to grab some, including this one. It was a nano on the grounds of an old high school. Not a fantastic hide, but it served its purpose.
#900 Sesquicentennial Summer (Austin, Texas)
This was probably one of the most memorable milestones. I had about 15 to go, and I went to Austin that day for an ill-fated research trip. All was going well for the first 10 or so caches, but then the skies opened up and it started to pour. The last few caches involved me running through the raindrops and probably angering people with my frantic cache-to-cache driving. Though the rain had just let up when I found my 900th cache, a tupperware outside of the Texas School for the Deaf, it was still pretty dreary. The sun came out somewhere on the ride home. I posted on Facebook something like “cold, wet, miserable, but I found my 900th cache.”
#1000 Landman Lounge (Columbus, Texas)
Turning into the big four digits was something that I wanted to share with friends, and it couldn’t have happened at a better time. One of my good friends, Julie, is based in Arlington, TX, but comes from Columbus, about 45 minutes outside of Houston. She was visiting her parents that weekend with her husband and kids, and as a new geocacher, she invited me to spend the day with her geocaching. I had a job fair in Katy to go to that morning, so I picked up about 10 or so there before heading out to Columbus, where this was the first cache we found together along with her daughter and brother. I actually got the pleasure of finding it, which was even better. Even though it was just a magnet attached to a fence post, it was in a pretty garden and the fact that I was with friends made it a sweet victory.
Back to the hotel room to finish packing up I go – next stop, Iowa, then on Monday, Wisconsin.
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