And we're back

Months have gone by with a serious hiatus from the sport. We could have probably pushed ourselves out the door to continue hunting but always decided in favour of other obligations or pleasures. We have picked up a few park & grabs that I haven't blogged about, although they have been logged in their prospective cache logs and web logs.

This past weekend, Mrs. HH (myself) had the obligation of taking two little haunthunters up to Indiana. With a crunch in time, we managed to find Florida in Texas in Georgia (GCY2TN) in Valdosta, Georgia. To be honest, I don't get how the name is a clue. This was our first out-of-state cache! Unfortunately, our stay the following night in Lebanon, Indiana provided for no geocaching thanks to the missing power source for the "free high speed" modem in our room. The details of this trip are on Mrs. HH's personal blog.

Christmas had some free moments, so the HH daughter and Mrs. HH headed out to grab the new Publix theme cache by 3birdfamily that was just down the road at the new supermarket, watch out for the public # 7 (GC182C7). HH daughter was instrumental in finding this one and is quite proud of herself for it.

We've still not managed to reset Good Boy! (GC147JP) and have temporarily disabled Ohio State Buckeye Avenue (GC144X8). Mr. HH was in the neighbourhood the following Saturday after we received notice that it was probably most likely muggled, but he failed to remember to stop and replace. We're hoping there's another opportunity to replace on January 5.

One thing I still have to do is begin checking for existing waymarks, logging visits, and applying for new waymarks, which are all abundant, from this trip. Bardstown, Kentucky was bursting with Historical Markers, not to mention all the other gems that I'm sure have a category to fit.

- Mrs. HH

After Dinner Finds & Hide

After dinner, we headed out for some quick park & grabs before nightfall.

We found:

• Blue Star Reflections (GCWEZG) - We'd stopped by this earlier in the year and DNF'd it. We finally got back and found the thing. It is very interesting that you can alter something like this. I wouldn't think that would be allowed but as long as no one knows or no one cares, it's all good.
• Night Light For Wally (GC10FBW) - We DNF'd Apple at the Home Wal (GCVM6W) , which apparently doesn't violate the brand name rules, but I'm not ready to log a DNF because we're not done with it. This one, we found very easy and it was a good bounce back after tanking on Apple.
• Flamingo (GCRZWX) - Easy JJmac hide. I'm surprised.
• Sonny Florida (GC11EMA) - We picked this up from Mr. HH's Magellan as a whim. There was a creepy looking muggle eyeing us, which we didn't notice until after we had the cache in hand, signed and ready to put back. There was also a loose dog that was returned "home" to the RV that was parked in the parking lot by a Burger King employee. Not exactly the kind of traffic we would've expected at this time, but hopefully no harm done.
• Tour de Smiles #2 - Big K (GCMRPZ) - Another cache done on a whim since we were right next door.

Then we rehid Dual Roads (GCTG3V), which paperboy had archived after many DNFs from numerous cachers. Since I didn't have a problem with the coordinates and actually walked right up to find my first micro without any problems, I'm really baffled why others had such trouble, especially considering the hint. Mr. HH has a personal history with this location from younger days, so we decided to resurrect it as Duel Roads Rides Again (GC14K7M) in a tweeked style that others may find more pleasing to find. Hopefully that will be approved without problems. (And it was!) - a later edit.

- Mrs. HH