14 Consecutive Days, and my first FTF!

Well, I did it!  I found caches every day from September 30th through today, so 14 days straight.  This may not be a huge accomplishment for some folks, but it was incredibly challenging getting out either before work or on lunch break on every weekday, and squeezing enough time in on busy weekends to pick up a cache or two.

Part of the problem is that I am rapidly running out of easy caches.  Because of my time constraints caching on lunch break, I have been going for a lot of easy nano hides and LPCs.  As those are running out, I have ended up having to look for more challenging hides, and the time crunch of an hour (including drive time) is making things tough.

I did manage to nab my first FTF yesterday - Don't miss the target.  I have alerts set up to text me if a new cache shows up in my area, and I got the alert just before 10 AM, while I was at work, for one that was about 15 minutes away by car.

I sprinted out of the building and made it to the nearby parking area, right as two people were getting out of a car three spots over.  I totally thought that they were there for the cache, and my first thought was one of disappointment, as I really wanted the FTF, but my second was one of interest, as I don't know any other local cachers and would like to meet some of them.

Alas, they were actually just there to park their car, so when they walked off I made the quick grab and got my first FTF.  Pretty exciting, though it did mess me up for lunch break as I basically took it 45 minutes after I arrived.  It's a good thing I don't get hungry in the middle of the day anyway, or I would have been screwed.

I'm looking forward to next week!  I'm taking a few days off for my birthday (Turning 40. Yay?) and plan to release my first two caches into the wild, and also plan to spend at least one whole day caching.  There is an old DNF in PA down near Delaware that I want to try to go for again, and I'd like to make another stop in DE while I'm down there, just to add to the two I picked up there previously.  Can't wait!