TD Green

On my way back after finding the Dirty Laundry geocache, I also saw that I was close to another one called TD Green. I hesitated when deciding whether or not to look for it because no one had logged a find for this one since January. With all the snow and bad weather, it might have gone missing or been destroyed. I went anyway, and was happy to find that it was still there and in good condition.
The container was tucked up into the base of a tree and covered with sticks and pieces of brush.
At first I didn't get the name of the cache, but once I saw the container it made perfect sense. It was a little zippered pouch with the TD Bank logo on it.

Dirty Laundry

After another meeting, I noticed I was close to the cache Dirty Laundry, so I stopped off to find it. It was a very easy find, but the difficult part was looking inconspicuous and nonchalant as I searched. The container was a little canister, similar to a 35mm container, and it was hidden right under a big window of a busy laundromat. I had to wait for a few people to go back inside when their clothes were finished drying before I could grab this one...

Main Street USA: Haddon Heights, NJ

After finishing a meeting nearby, it was a short drive to the Main Street USA: Haddon Heights, NJ geocache. After a short stroll through a beautiful little park on a warm sunny day, I found the container without difficulty. It was next to a very nice war memorial that commemorates the men and women who served in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.

The cache container was your standard magnetic key holder, and it was hidden in the base of this gigantic weapon. Not being a soldier, I can only guess that this is some kind of cannon/gun that was on a battleship or other navy vessel.

Bowling Memories

Like yesterday, I had some time to kill on my way from work to get the kids, so I stopped off at the Laurel Lanes bowling alley to grab the Bowling Memories geocache. It was a quick and easy find. The container was just sitting in the corner of the fence surrounding the parking lot, but on the back side that faces the woods. Since there's really no reason to go back there, other than to find this thing, there's very little chance of someone spotting it.

Inside the little tupperware container was the standard log book, some swag that consisted of a few pins and key chains, and three travel bugs. I took one of the travel bugs and left some foreign coins.

The travel bug I took is called The Miller's Inn TB, and it was a tiny keg of Guinness beer on a keychain. This geocache was a completely suitable location for this travel bug, which actually originated in Switzerland last October. The goal of this bug is to travel from cache to cache, preferrably those at or near other Irish pubs. I will do my best to keep the tradition going and find a pub with a nearby cache to place this.

Every Cache Needs A Park

On my way to pick up the kids from school, I had a little time to kill so I stopped by this beautiful little park right on Main Street in Maple Shade to grab the geocache Every Cache Needs A Park. The cache was on the far side of a small lake. It was relatively easy to find, but the ground was still wet and a little muddy from yesterday's rain.

The cache container was hidden in a small hollow and covered by pieces of rotting wood. I'm not sure this camo will last too long if there's too much rain or high winds, but for now it seems to be working.

Maryland House

On our way from NJ to the Baltimore Aquarium, we stopped at the Maryland House rest stop on I-95 to stretch our legs, grab a snack, and look for a few geocaches. Just as Gino and I were heading into the woods, a couple was walking to the same spot with a GPS in hand, and we searched the woods beside the parking lot until we found both caches hidden there. The first one, Maryland House (Version 2.0), was pretty easy to find. It was a big tupperware container glued to an old car tire rim. Since we were in the woods beside a major rest stop, it wasn't really out of the ordinary to see something like that lying around back there, and Gino was the one who turned it over and made the find. We left our Tough Cache Geocoin inside this one.

The second cache in the same woods, Maryland House III - Bushwhacker's Delight, was another 500 feet deeper, and we had to cross 2 little streams and avoid getting poked in the eye by low branches and scratched by thorns. I actually made the find this time because Gino was too busy throwing sticks into the stream to really look. It wasn't that hard to find once we got to the area, and we left our Pennsylvania Geocoin inside this container.

On the way back to the car, we found the third one at the same rest stop. This one, Maryland House IV - Finally a Micro, was a larger red bison tube hidden in the crook of a tree. Even though the tree was right beside one of the buildings, it was easy to search without being noticed because the area was surrounded by large bushes and we were out of sight. Gino was too small to find this one by himself, but sitting on my shoulders helped him make the grab!

Buck's Place

On my way home this morning, I took the scenic route and stopped to grab this cache. It's such a beautiful day out that I just couldn't resist the opportunity to stroll around in the warm sunshine by a gorgeous lake. The cache was called Buck's Place and it was hidden right off the path surrounding Haddon Lake in Audubon. It was obviously named for Buck Pruden, but I'm not sure who he is. A bench near the cache site is dedicated to him.

The actual cache location was this sign above the bench at the top of the hill by the road.

The cache container was an ordinary magnetic key holder tucked under the actual sign.

The Crater

The third and final geocache that Celeste and I took the kids to find today was called The Crater. It was in a wooded area behind a Green Acres site in another very nice residential community. Aside from the occasional thorn bushes and the rather large orange-colored stream that ran through the woods, the kids did fine with the terrain.

The tree cover created a lot of GPS signal bounce, but we eventually spotted the container. This time, Giuli found some swag that met her criteria, but Gino didn't want anything. We also left the tiger travel bug called Fast Cache that I found last month while working way out in Pennsylvania.

SJCC: Oak

This was the second geocache that Celeste and I took the kids to find today. It was called SJCC: Oak and it was way back in the woods just off a small hiking trail that ran through a very nice residential community. We actually saw a group of about 30 white tailed deer in a field nearby, and we also scared some while we were wandering noisily through the woods.

Gino found the container pretty quickly when we reached the area. He picked his prize, but Giuli found nothing that interested her. We also left our Recon Soldier travel bug in the cache.

Anna's Cache

Celeste and I took Gino and Giuli out geocaching this afternoon. It was actually beautiful day for mid-January. The first geocache we found was called Anna's Cache. It was in a wooded area behind a very nice residential neighborhood. We found the container pretty quickly. Both kids rummaged through the contents and picked out their prizes. We left our own travel bug called Stop For A Minute.

A step in the right direction

I had a little free time between meetings this afternoon, so I stopped off to grab a geocache called A step in the right direction. It was a tiny nano cache stuck on a pedestrian bridge that crossed over Route 130 in Cinnaminson.

Stop for a Minute

We attached our t-shirt travel bug coin to a little sand timer and named it Stop for a Minute. Our intention is to remind people of the importance of taking a moment every day to relax and also to appreciate something beautiful...

Fast Cache in York White Rose

After finishing some work in Thomasville, PA, on the way home I stopped off for a quick bite to eat and found the geocache York White Rose. It was a quick park n' grab at the far end of a shopping center parking lot. The container was much larger than what you usually find in places like this, and inside was a travel bug. The travel bug was attached to a little tiger and was named Fast Cache. I brought the tiger home to NJ with me and will bring him the next time Gino and I go out. Hopefully we can find a suitable place for him sometime soon!

New Geocoins

My new geocoins arrived in the mail today. They were a gift for my birthday. Thanks Angie & Celeste!

The first one is a Tough Cache geocoin. I'll try to drop this one off in a difficult cache deep in the woods...

The second one is a Pennsylvania Railroad geocoin commemorating PA as the birthplace of the railroad 180 years ago.

The last one is a T-Shirt geocoin, but it's actually more of a travel bug than a geocoin. I'll let Gino decide what to hook the t-shirt onto, just like we did with the Recon Soldier.

What's the buzz?

Another geocache that I found between meetings today was named What's the buzz? This one had me stumped at first, until I took a few steps back from where I knew it should be and just stared for a minute. Eventually it jumped out at me.

This was a good urban geocache, basically hidden in plain sight. The "container" was a large magnet with numbers on it, and was stuck to some kind of electrical or mechanical unit in a parking lot. Beneath the magnet was a small log inside of a bag.

Twisted Bufflehead

Between meetings in PA, I had some time to kill, so I stopped off to grab this local geocache, called Twisted Bufflehead. I can't figure out how the owner arrived at this name. It wasn't difficult to find, but it took some stealth to retrieve the container, a bison tube, from it's hiding place. The tube was sitting inside a tiny hole in a brick wall along the sidewalk in front of a shopping center. I couldn't get my fingers around the tip of the container, so I had to use my car keys as tweezers to pull it out.