Dade Massacre

[08-Jan-2012] Spent most the day driving to Bushnell for the reenactment at the Dade Battlefield. The fog was thick like monsters come out and eat you think till almost Ocala. At the battle you are very close to the action if you sit at the rope, bleachers are much further back on a hill and may actually have a better view since the Seminoles are hidden in the palmettos for the battle. The narration needs a lot of work, particularly the U.S. side. Most of his narration is useless rantings that dont help anyone understand what is going on. The park system also needs to work on their over engineering of the parking and transport system, trams really arent needed and one entrance fee would be nice.

Christmas Caches
[25-Dec-2011] Did a couple of caches on the way home from Christmas to test the new phone. Caches GCW8FF: Hill Top Drop GC2RYT6: L. Kirk Edwards - WEA - #1 GC2RVCV: Capitola Twister

North Carolina

[19-Dec-2010] Left Wednesday at noon for North Carolina. Got to Fayettevillee about 10pm, stopped there for the night. Next morning it had snowed. Drove the rest of the 2 hours in drizzling rain that froze and crusted all over the front of the jeep. Got to Aunt Carolyns, sent on to Tinas. Funeral was mostly indoors because of the rain. Lunch afterwards at Tinas with all of Carolyns descendants (I count 20 with spouses), Dad, Shayla, Uncle Dallas and Sandra. Emma Lee (Grandmas sister) and Glenda came by later. Talked for several hours about genealogy and got a lot of info. Next day got up and had breakfast at the store at Pleasant Hill. Went across the street to the church and identified some of the graves of relatives. Did the First battle of Kinston geocachees up 258 to Kinston. Did #1-7, 9 and 11. Skipped 8 because I had no sheet for it and didnt have time to solve the thing and get #12. Went to the Neuse and its replica before driving to Raleigh for dinner with Roberto and his kids. Ended just north of Florence, SC. Drove home the next day. 1521 miles, $261 in gas. I appear to have lost my GPS along the way. Had it since 2001. Needed a ew one but not right now. Ipod worked on the way up, then first thing on the way back decided it needed to be restored again. Geocaches info: A=1, B=2, C=6, D=6, E=5, F=3, G=3, I=5, J=0.

Lake Piney Z
[15-Oct-2010] Easy to find cache but its over a half mile trip from the parking lot. It may be closer to start from the Alford arm park. There are beauty berries all over the place, may go back and pick them for jam.

Script Update
[08-Mar-2010] Updated the log entry script to do geocaches correctly again. Have to manually enter coords but at least it converts and puts it in the database right which it hasnt down for years now.

Natural Bridge 2010

[07-Mar-2010] Natural Bridge seemed quick and small this year. When I got there it was almost deserted. No cars on the side of the road. It filled in later but I still think attendance was down. The Reenactment also seemed smaller, no colors for the Union troops even. Checked on the cache in the park and did 2 others on the way back. Its nice to be able to take Plank road and not go through town and Woodville now. Caches Waterford Crystal? #2 Waterford Crystal? Natural Bridge

Delivery, Geocaches, Zoo, kids.

[04-Mar-2010] Took moms new laptop to her. Stopped and did some geocaches on the way. 2 that I couldnt find before and one new one. Im sure the Hill Top Drop one is not there now. Thursday went to the Jax Zoo so I was at the north end of Jax to have dinner with a 3 year old who was passing through. The zoo has changed a lot since the last time I was there in the 80s. They have a whole Florida wildlife section now, and everything has moved. Displays are no longer the old concrete pens but much better. The only thing still there is the train and the Carousel Did a couple of more geocaches afterwards before coming home. Caches Can You Hear Me Now Johnny Donut Seed Hill Top Drop It's a JUNGLE out here! Off Your Rocker, JIA

Jacksonville

[29-Jan-2010] Went to Jax to do some work for mom. Removed the old workbench from the garage, cleared the leaves off the roofs and screen room, replaced a light in the hall and an electrical socket. Tried several geocaches on the way there and back with mostly bad luck. 2 are very close to home and Ill try again really soon. Caches A dump of a park Take a dump Can You Hear Me Now Hill Top Drop Say hey to Ray Bridges of Madison County #5 service to the public Also a sun dog on the way back.

England Day 1-3

[28-Dec-2008] Darkness is a real problem here. Its starts at 4pm. Cant see much in a day. Went to Bury St. Edmunds the first day, saw the ruins of the Abbey. Day 2 was mostly driving to Newcastle with a stop at Durham Cathederal. Burial site of St. Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede. Several views from the tower and 2 Harry Potter related photos (a false wall and a courtyard used in the film). Day 3 was Hadrians wall, Housesteads Fort on the wall, a geocache nearby, and Vindolanda a fort further back with civilian buildings nearby. Caches GCXWB8 Housesteads

West Virginia

[26-Apr-2008] Went to Clarksburg for Nannys funeral. Left here Wed night, drive to jax. Flight at 6am. Funeral, flight back at 6am the next morning and then drove back to Tallahassee. Took a few photos of Nannys house, Suan Terrace, and the dogwoods in bloom around town. Had just enough time to do an easy cache at Simpsons Creek covered bridge under a mile from the hotel. Caches GCQNHM: Simpson Creek Covered Bridge

Brooklyn and Chinatown

[18-Aug-2007] Bought a new camera Thursday before trying to sleep. After working all Friday night (10:30pm to about noon), we ate at Grimaldis Coal oven pizzaria in Brooklyn. I decided to look a third time for the Bridge cache with no luck. Then walked across Brooklyn the long way for another cache in Ft. Greene Park, down the heights promenade, through the center past the borugh hall. Found it, and watched a stomp show in the park. Took a train back to this side of the river, go off on the Lower East side and walked back to the apt via Chinatown. Put up photos of the trip, and some of the apt and city in general Caches LESSER KNOWN HISTORICAL SITES III

The Brooklyn Bridge

[14-Aug-2007] Walked across the Broolyn Bridge after work. Its an amazing structure. It must have been pryamid like in size back when they built it. today you only get that feel once on it. There is a wide pedestrian walk way well above the car traffic with excellent views all the way across. Looked for two caches and only found one. Dark caught me. I ened up going across 3 times, once across, found the cache under the brdge, back to the east peir, then back to Brooklyn to look for the second. Didnt find it my numbers were off, I was trying to read the plaques in the dark. Brooklyn is nice, it has trees and plants, much better than Manhatten. Under the bridge on the Brooklyn side must e the best pizza considering the constant 40 person line, Grimaldis pizzaria. Got ice cream before coming back across the first time and rode the subway back after dark. Caches LESSER KNOWN HISTORICAL SITES IV Frank Farrington's view

NY again

[11-Aug-2007] Im in NY again. Cleaning up the network there. Its much better in summer time outside in this part of town than it was over the holidays, there are people out all night. We are getting an apartment here, a few blocks from the office so Ill be here regularly. There is a nice 24 hour diner just below the apartment. Managed to walk around a little tonight, did a geocache down near the water. There are a couple of tall ships there, too bad they are only open in the daylight. Had to buy a disposable camera, I still need to replace the digital one. The plane flight up here was a disaster. Left Tallahasse about 12:30, got to Atlanta. Flight was supposed to be 3:45. We didnt leave till around 8:30. They got us all on the plane, then annouced a ground stop in NY. Wait 20 min. Ok get off the plane it will be at least an hour. Then they decided to do maitenance on the plane. So after the stop was lifted we were still stuck. Instead of arrivng at 6:00 or so, it was almost midnight. Caches Water Water Everywhere!

Geocache replaced
[10-Jun-2007] I drove out to my geocache and replaced it today. It had been proscribed burned back in Feb. The box was still there, but just ashes and a new log someone left after the fire inside. Left a new box, a fireproof safe this time.

Mississippi Gulf Coast

[22-Mar-2007] Spent the weekend along the Mississippi Gulf coast, Bay St. Louis and Gulfport, driving down to Biloxi for work. The destruction is mainly confined to the beach and 3 blocks off it except at the Bay St. Louis end where there are snapped pine trees as far inland as the interstate. The beach are looks really nice. White sandy beaches on one side and a park like area where houses used to be that are now cleared except for the foundations on the other side. Interestingly the hundred year old oak trees that surrounded the houses all survived. Took a few photos . did 3 geocaches. Canal 31 was just outside the hotel. The Biloxi National cache took me down to the National Cemetary in Biloxi, a pretty place of oaks, azaleas and white headstones. The 3rd was right in Bay St. Louis on the water. Caches Canal 31 Biloxi National Cache Tercentenary

Lunch time caches

[14-Mar-2007] Went looking for a cache yesterday without a gps and didnt find it so today I returned with the gps, not that it helped much. It lead me to the same place I was looking. I did find the cache, evilly camoed on a light pole but I didnt have a pen to sign the log. Did another one during lunch too, there is a small pond near work and its in the woods around the pond. Caches Getsmart Here Fishy, fishy, fishy

Natrual Bridge 2007

[04-Mar-2007] Like an idiot I deleted all the photos from my camera before going out the next weekend. I blame a lack of sleep from Daylight Savings time work. Found the Natural Bridge cache (GC10FN6) on the way in. The Rangers were a bit stupid this year. Telling everyone not to stand at the rope, but halfway back across the road. Everyone moved back then back to the rope. Silly Ranger. There was a small turnout for the battle this year, and all the deaths were on the far side of the field. They did a better job with containing the reporters rather than having them in front of everyone. They also added some onsite parking. Not nearly enough but at least they are making an attempt. Caches GC10FN6 Natrual Bridge

Caches entered
[15-Jun-2006] I entered the caches from the last trip so they show up on the maps now.

Geocaches

[21-Feb-2006] I did seven geocaches after Olustee on the way to get my travel bug that I left in Oregon two years ago that had made its way to Gainesville. I used to have a great program to enter caches automatically, lookup the coordinates and plot them on the map. However since the last time I did cache, (last May?) they restricted the site so my script wont work. These arnt on the map yet. I need to fix it but not now. The caches were: Union County Line Cache NEFGA Does Union County Serial Finder 10 The Union Rails to Trails Trestle LaCrosse's Only Florida Champion Gator TB Hotel and Gift Shop I only linked the ones with photos.