visited 45 states (90%)

Another update since I traveled so much last month, I have now been to all but 5 states... I hope I can finish those off soon!


visited 45 states (90%)
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LOVE STORY meets VIVA LA VIDA

I'm a big Jon Schmidt fan, and have been ever since I heard Waterfall back in May of 2000, I've gone to the mall to meet him a couple of times too... So I was pretty excited when I heard on the radio that he had come out with an awesome new song, a mix of Taylor Swift's "Love Story" and Coldplay's "Viva La Vida," both awesome songs.

Splinterheads (2009)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1254696/

Splinterheads is a new movie that from what I hear has quite a bit of Geocaching in it, so I'd like to see it... They had a showing of it at Geowoodstock but we went out caching instead.

Geowoodstock '09 is coming soon!

Geowoodstock moves around every year, this year it is in Tennessee so Chris and I decided to take some vacation time and make it a real road trip! Below are the states we will be driving through from May15th to May 24th... Geocaching along the way obviously.


visited 23 states (46%)
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72% and counting

I was playing with this website where you can color in certain states on a map easily, I've been to 36 of the 50, and hope to finish it off within the next year or two.


visited 36 states (72%)
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Cache of the day...

A lot of geocachers like to see how many consecutive days they can find a geocache, some people like DrJay are really good at it, with 700+ days in a row, I don't think I could do that. And I think Frivlas has 1,400-ish.... wow. I'm at about a month, the goal is 100 days, just because triple digits are fun. I'm not sure if I'l stop it on purpose so its a nice even number or just not try as hard after that and let it end when it ends.
Its been fun trying to get one everyday, today I got "not a pine or pole" hidden by our good buddy mikey, who knows what tomorrow will bring. I have to admit I'm excited to be done with it so I can just go find all of the caches around home instead of holding back saying "I need to save that one for a day when I need an easy cache for the streak."

AZ - CA - NV

Another corner has been visited, Chris and I were in Laughlin NV / Bullhead City, AZ and noticed that it wasn't really that far to go to the southernmost tip of Nevada, where California, Nevada and Arizona all meet. Obviously you don't pass up something like that!

(click the above image to view this on google maps )

If you look at that map you can see that the "real" corner is actually in the Colorado River, but at the nearest point on the shore we found the reference point benchmark and took some pictures with it, just with the camera phone because we both forgot our cameras.




You can also see on that map how the road comes up from the south to that point and ends there. Well we believed the maps, something we often regret and followed them, the first route took us out into Indian land where Rabbits were running out in front of us literally every two seconds and we hit a couple of surprises like a "puddle" that was alot deeper then it looked when the tires went in, we eventually gave up on that road and tried another, where we had to drive along a raised levy next to a canal, it was dark, the road dirt and narrow with a drop-off on both sides... I really thought it was going to be easy. Anyway, when we finally got there we found out that the road does not end there, but in fact continues up very nicely to the main road by the casino. So basically instead of a nice and easy 0.75 mile drive to it, we we on crazy roads for 10-ish miles, but that always seems to happen when I go geocaching.

After that we went to the "Fake corner," they had surveyed it wrong originally and there are markers at what they thought was the tip of Nevada until they got it fixed.