It is hard to believe it was just a year ago that I hit my first 1000 finds in my first year of caching. I have set this pace for myself to get at least 1000 in each year I cache, so far so good.

Saturday July 17th, was my youngest son’s (CSM2000) birthday and he wanted to visit Downtown Chicago and go to the sky deck of the Willis (Sears) Tower. I of course searched for possible caches in the area to make the trip a bit more fun. Sure enough it there wasn’t 5-6 caches close to where we were heading, and one of them was at the top of Willis Tower. Bingo, I now had a goal to collect the last 4 caches I needed on our way to the sky deck and make that 2000th find the virtual caches at the top.

Being a nice warm summer Saturday and the nearby filming of the Transfromers 3 movie didn’t help the situation, the place was packed. The view was great, and the new Ledge (the glass boxes hang off the side of the building) was breathtaking and kind of wierd, its a truely unnatural feeling to step out onto glass and be able to see 103 stories down to the street below.

All in all we had a great day, now on to our next 1000! O, yeah I had the strangest feeling I was being watched as we headed home?

Cache Ya Later!

Okay, its mid-June and my cach-aversary is fast approaching (August 2nd). As of today I am 145 finds away. WOO HOO, I am really striving to reach 1000 finds a year, so I’m very close to that goal, I’ll keep you posted on my progress.

We just returned from our trip to the Music City (Nashville, TN), after the recent flooding in town I was worried that I would not be able to get some of the caches I was in search of. I am happy to report that the downtown area of Nashville has recovered well from the flooding.

While in the Nashville area I was able to log a few Terracaches, Webcam, and Waymarking caches some of which are very rare in the Chicagoland area. I set out one morning for the campus of Vanderbilt University with my mini-computer and cell phone to grab the webcam caches. Wouldn’t you know it i could not get the internet on my cell phone, so I could not get the computer to blue tooth with it to share the internet. Yikes, now what do I do, I asked the campus for access to their wi-fi and was refused, so I called family member with web access at their home to lend a hand, I walked them through the process and finally was able to claim the cache.

Well we are glad to be back home and I was looking at my stats for the last few weeks and realized I am on track to hit 2000 finds on or before my Cache-aversary date of August 2nd, if I can reach that goal it will keep me at 1000 caches a year for the last 2 years, not bad.

Cache-Ya-Later!