Our week in Prescott, Arizona

I was looking for a spring vacation spot that wasn’t snowed in and Prescott seemed to qualify. As usual, we rented a house for a week through VRBO. Unusually, we hit a few minor hiccups. First, our initial attempt to rent ended when the owner got confused over two inquiries coming at the same time. […]

Completing a geocache challenge in northern Oregon

Heading north for a week’s stay in Anacortes, WA, we paused for a couple of days to do some geocaching. I have been working to complete the Jasmer Challenge {find a cache—any cache—hidden in every month since geocaching began). As you might imagine, in the early months, not many caches were hidden, and since caches […]

Potter’s Pond

I’m working on finding a few of the oldest geocaches in the world. Canceling our trip to New Mexico messed up those plans. One of those old caches is in the Manti-La Sal National Forest in Utah. The area is a high valley (technically a graben) east of Mt. Pleasant along the Miller Flat Road.

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