buckyd's Geoblog

Jul 17, 2010

Happy B-Day Joani & Summer Fun!

By: nielsenc Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Other

The kids are still a little hopped up, so you know a good time was had by all... Bringing a few coins ended up being good for us, because now we've got a cache container or two to do some maintenance with (and we have a lot of it)! Thanks for hosting and happy birthday to Joani!

May 2, 2010

10 Years! (Monterey, California)

By: Central Coast Geocachers of California Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Not chosen

We had a great time talking with people, both familiar and unfamiliar. We were even surprised that lil'brother granted us an extra hour to socialize before crankiness set in. Thanks so much to Touchtone and the whole Eagle family for hosting a great event!

Mar 28, 2010

Happy Birthday JoeSpaz Is Back

By: joespaz Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Other

FWIW we were there until lil'brother's bedtime. HBJS.

Jan 9, 2010

Team Checkers' First 10K

By: way2wild Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Not chosen

We like this park, thanks for picking it to celebrate the other obsessed family with minicachers...

FINAL ACTIVITIES 2009

By: SPHERICAL FULLERENES Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Large

Oh, that's right, I was there, too...

Oct 31, 2009

Little Shop of Horrors VI

By: workerofwood Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Not chosen

Always a pleasure to spend an afternoon at WoW's house, although this year it seems I kept losing track of Geo Baby in the house. If she's gonna go awol anyway, next time I'll have to bring some good camo for the containers I brought so I can actually work on something! TFTE!

Sep 9, 2009

09-09-09 Multi Event - Northern California

By: Marky & Joani Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Not chosen

Always fun to come to a Marky-Joani event -- thanks for hosting and hopefully we'll see you before 10-10-10!

Aug 29, 2009

East of the Bay, West of the Hills 4

By: zuckermn and Cloversmom Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Not chosen

Wasn't sure that we would make it, but things seem to be going more smoothly around the house recently. It was nice to sit and chat with both novel and familiar faces, and the cozy (albeit unexpected) locale turned out just fine.

Jul 5, 2009

Meet & Greet After The 4th

By: DavidT21 & Fisherwoman Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Not chosen

Wasn't expecting to make it, but we left Monterey in plenty of time for a nap and a smiley! Thanks for the event.

Jun 20, 2009

Summer... I scream, You scream, We all scream II

By: nielsenc/hjnielsen/worlds worst cacher Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Other

We all had a great time -- Geo Baby with the triple-whammy of ice cream/jumpy house/playground, Walruz with plenty of ears to hear his caching stories, and I especially liked that the mint Its-Its came out at my arrival. Bonus!

Jan 10, 2009

FINAL ACTIVITY EVENT

By: Venona (hosted by Bullitovsky) Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Not chosen

...and a great time was had by all... (Now to start collecting code and tools for '09)

Jun 28, 2008

Ross Creek Combing II

By: Vaudesir Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 2.0 Container: Not chosen

I wasn't sure we were going to make it in time for the opening festivities, since a certain lollygagging little person woke up late this morning, but we got there in the nick of time and we even found some trash to haul out! The plums, water, and cookies were a nice touch (although I think Geo Baby helped herself to more than her fair share of cookies when we weren't looking - Nazgul seems to have some indirect evidence of this in one of his photos). Then it was off to some food and a playground for us. Thanks for organizing our adoption and maintenance of this area.

May 24, 2008

GeoWoodstock VI

By: RCGDS & NUTS Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Not chosen

In the words of Geo Baby "That's amazing!" (though she'll write her own log -- she's got tons to say about Saturday). The day was fabulous! I can't imagine a better venue to kick around with cachers of all ages, and keep every single one of them busy with activities! I keep trying to pick out my favorite two or three activities of the day, and I just can't seem to single just two or three out -- they were all so much fun. Lessee: we danced on the tables to the first performance of Music Matt, we rode on a wooden train and a real train, had some great festival food for lunch (which we ate while sitting in the wooden train) and dinner (sitting very close to the wooden train), saw all sorts of animals up close (multip le times), danced to the last performance of Second Time Around (not on tables, thankfully), met Signal, played in corn and on tires, shared Jamba Juice, worked the diggers, saw JohnnyVegas's magic show, went down the biggest slide Geo Baby has ever attempted, found stamps in geocaches for a special GWVI zipper-pull prize, almost painted an ammo can (chickened out at the last minute), talked to many friends both old and new, and looked at all the pretty geocoins all over the place. We had such a great time here we managed the whole day without nap, and I think we will be back to visit Bishop Ranch in pumpkin season - although for WalruZ and I that kind of fun won't compare to having the place occupied with 3 thousand geocachers.

It obviously took an amazing amount of volunteers and work to pull this off, and RCGDS and NUTS did a spectacular job -- THANKS SO MUCH!!!

May 23, 2008

Friday Night Meet & Greet

By: RCGDS & NUTS Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Not chosen

We planned ahead to beat the traffic from the Bay Area (left at 10 am and sailed right through to Rocklin!), let Geo Baby jump on the hotel bed for a while, and then headed down to the MeetNGreet around 4. Amazing organization, and we really appreciated getting our packet and shirts early so we could plan out the next day! This was pulled off quite well and there were so many people in attendance by 7 pm that Geo Baby was able to capitalize on the 30 seconds that I wasn't watching her and sneak off to the see saw, giving me a bit of a scare (yeah, this is why I couldn't volunteer this weekend -- she's a crafty little toddler). We decided that it was going to be bedtime after that, so we missed all the traffic-denizens that arrived at the tail end... Thanks for the pre-party!

Apr 19, 2008

Earth Day Morning 2008 CITO at Panther Beach

By: 50sumtin Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 3.0 Container: Not chosen

We had a really good time doing the CITO as a family. I accompanied Geo Baby while we looked for "paper" and "water bottles". While she was looking for those items, I also removed many many pieces of broken glass from the sand, as well as some expended bottle rockets and a sock. Our bag wasn't that big or full, but we did our part. I don't think Geo Baby was quite old enough to understand the environmental implications of the event, but she especially enjoyed the challenge of hiking down to and back up from the beach. She was quite proud of herself. Thanks for the Earth Day celebration!

Earth Day Morning Get Together in Santa Cruz

By: 50sumtin Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Not chosen

We decided to make a weekend away of it, and stayed over the night before quite near to the event location so that we could get everyone up and to the place on time. Well, we still managed to be a few minutes late, but everyone was in good spirits for the rest of the morning! I changed my order to one of the specials at the last minute, and was not disappointed. Thanks for the event.

Mar 29, 2008

GW6 Pep Rally

By: BADGES Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Not chosen

Enjoyed the big BADGES-style event, although its getting harder and harder to accommodate the crowds! We're already all set up for GW6, at the level of participation that we can manage, so we're looking forward to the holiday weekend away. Thanks.

Feb 2, 2008

Meet & Greet Groundspeak & Garmin in the Bay Area

By: Signal the Frog Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Not chosen

It looked like rain today, so Geo Baby and I stopped by in the morning to say hi and see the presentation. Unfortunately we couldn't get in the room near the crayons, so Geo Baby found some little friends to play with just outside the room, and I was able to hear a sentence or two at the doorway. Until they closed the doors, forcing me [;)] to chat with Friv while she womanned the tables. I had already experienced wherigo several times over the last year as a beta testing family, and handled Marky's Colorado a few weeks ago, so it was all good. After chatting more while the morning groups ran the demo, we went off to lunch and in search of a playground with a cache near it (that was plan 2, as it turned out that The Jungle was just too crowded to visit for lunch). Funny thing, we ran into cachers at almost every cache we visited... Geo Baby is completely sacked out now after the fun and sugar-filled morning. Now my big task is to get WalruZ motivated enough in a positive direction in order to help me implement my storyline (since he's got the Windoze machine in the family)... Thanks for coming, bringing the lackey bling, providing snack for Geo Baby, and introducing a lot of talented geocachers to wherigo!

Nov 11, 2007

5 Years Down; 25K Found, > 460K to Go

By: TeamAlamo Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Other

Great turnout, a who's who in NorCal caching if I ever saw one. We were a bit fatigued from our cachapalooza in the hills, but were quite happy that our food was looking for us when we walked in the door. I don't know how you keep up that sort of schedule, but I guess that's why I'm an order of magnitude behind you in numbers... Thanks for the day's events (I think, WalruZ is still going on about his feet and Geo Baby has that whiny tired 2 year old thing going on)!

Nov 10, 2007

WWFM - Bay Area Style

By: vaccine & triplep220 Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Micro

That was an interesting 15 minutes... We arrived with just a little time to spare, even with Geo Baby navigating to the site on her trike. I'm looking forward to see the footage from our little mob! Thanks for the event.

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