The Great June Adventure

This month we have set ourselves the challenge of finding 100 geocaches.  That's 3.33 a day, or 5 a day x20 days, or something approximate to that.

Today is the 3rd, we didn't manage any caches on the 1st but the 2nd and 3rd have both been good caching days.  Yesterday we began a route of 34 caches between 4 villages about 25mins away.  We parked in one village and walked along for 7 caches before turning back.  We then collected a bonus Church Micro multi from the other side of the village.  Total: 8.

We started today's walk by driving to where we left off yesterday and collected 7 more along the route before turning back.  On the way home we tried and failed at a cache and dash and then I jumped out the car and walked across one bonus field to collect 2 puzzles, one under the stile on each side of the field.  Total for the day: 9.  Running total: 17.

When lockdown started this seemed like a fun challenge to attempt but we had to wait until the exercise restrictions lifted before we could begin.  I'm excited about this for several reasons, firstly just because it's nice to have a project to focus on whilst nothing is open.  Secondly because it makes my little statistical brain happy to see our caching stats jump up.  And thirdly just because it's nice to go on some different walks and not just keep repeating the same one over and over.

I'll try to remember to keep this updated on our progress.


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