I wasn't sure if I was gonna hit this yesterday, but today ended up being the day I reached 100 caches! Technically it would have been 99 caches since I started in July (since I had that one find in 2011), but I picked up 2 more today for good measure, putting me at 102 total and 101 since July 22nd of this year.
I'm pretty proud of my achievement, but am still trying to ensure that this remains a hobby and not an obsession. It's borderline obsession now, but since I'm doing 99% of my caching on lunch breaks at work, it's not affecting my social or family life all that much.
As far as the caches went, I was actually planning to pick up just one cache on lunch - reduce reuse recycle, but as I was driving there I saw a multi listed as being right in the middle of the road I happened to be on. I didn't have time to stop, but when I got there I saw something pretty unusual and thought that it might be the cache... and indeed, it was. MLF4: Ford Explorer is listed as a multi because it's no longer possible to create new virtual caches. This was a very unusual sight, so I took a quick pic with my "cell phone" for verification and made log #100.
The cache I was going for originally was in a nice little park, and I met someone there walking a dog who knew what I was doing and had some interest in caching. I have seen people print out that official brochure off of the web site, and I think I may start carrying a few with me. That way, if someone wants more info I have it, and if I ever get questioned for looking suspicious, I can at least document that what I'm doing is not crazy.
After that cache I swung by another old virtual, so technically today was three types of caches in one day... though the multi really wasn't a multi. Oh well.
Update on the Garmin - I finally picked up a Micro SD card and loaded up the Open Street Maps for Garmin. Holy crap, this has been awesome!!! Now, when I select a Geocache, I have the option to either route off-road, where it just points me in the direction, or create a routable map, which has turn directions and everything. I mean, it doesn't talk, like my TomTom, but it beeps loudly and is very readable and accurate. It works fine as a driving GPS now, and I still keep the topo maps in there for when I'm on a hiking trail. I couldn't be happier with this GPS, and honestly I'm still working out details on how to do a few things. The documentation is a bit spotty, so I'll post some guides here as I develop them.
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