Hampton Air&Space Museum

With Hurricanes hitting the Florida coast we are getting several cells dumping gallons of water on us in advance of the storm. It has rained steadily for two days and yesterday the rain was coming down so hard that flooding was happening in most low lieing areas.

So instead of going out invite parks, walking trails, we went to Hampton to see the Air and Space museum. We tried tried to watch an IMAX 3D movie. However the weather knocked out power long enough to Stop  the film. After we toured the museum and tried talk the hands on scientifically based experiments.

International Geocaching day.

Today after getting my eye exam, I decided to do a little caching in the Newport News Denbiegh area. After finding a couple I realized it was a special caching day and decided to break my own personal record for finds in a single day. Thanks primarily to Chip and Lori I was able to locate 16 new caches and 1DNF. the last one located was a courthouse of significant historical value which was where these photo's were taken. Enjoy!

500 Geocache finds

I decided I would try to topple my under 500 finds today and decided to revisit Jamestown to attempt a missed CJS Series cache(GC2F40H) I could not previously find.

The day was cool and so I was not slapped in the face with the usual summer humidity that makes it difficult to keep looking for caches. I drove my Ford Geomobile to the Jamestown area and found the described deck then solved the puzzle to locate stage 2. Using an application called .... I punched in the new coordinates for stage two and started looking. After thirty minutes looking with nothing, I gave up and logged a DNF. Then did an area search.
In the area were several unfound caches and a couple Geochallenges. I parked near (GC3KK2B) which is also close to (GC25VBH) and walked to both with no real issues managed to locate both. I then hopped back into the car to drive a mike up the road to look for the Ferry free for all cache which was another easy find and finally up the bike trail a mile to finish with (GC164PB) for a grand total of 502 cache finds! I drove to Jamestown Settlement next to locate and photograph the two Geochallenges located inside. These are a few of the photo's taken inside the Settlement area.

Caching run

So despite my sore knee, I was going a little stir crazy just sitting around the house do Saturday I decided I would go on a cache run into a new area. After a brief search, I found a unvisited park called Chippokes Plantation State park in Surry, VA. This park has several discovery centers, historic sites, a museum, and most importantly a Captain John Smith series cache.

The series highlites historically important sites significant to, you guessed it, Captain John Smith. I have found approximately 12 in the series and once you have located and documented the finds of at least 17 of the 40 caches you can earn a traceable Geocoin.

After an hour and thirty minutes as I was driving through Smithfield, VA, it started to rain. Not to be discouraged I checked radar and could see it was only an isolated storm. So I stopped for lunch and pushed on to the park where the sun was out and it was dry.

First stop was at the visitors center where I spotted the pictured Bobcat. I grabbed my part stamp for my logbook, and a trail guide. (I learned to never cache an unfamiliar park without a trailguide) the CJS cache was located between a picnic area and the community pool. Ignoring both I started walking and quickly located the cache behind an ancient tree on an old unused trail! After a quick note of the code words and a photo op (both required steps for the CJS series) I signed the logbook and dropped one of my pathtags and a trackable bug.and then searched the area time locate two more park caches not to miss. GC1ORYX, & GC3D53D. the later is a Virginia State Parks blooming adventure series and all are in ancient gardens. All in all, I half a great day of caching in Surry county and finished the day picking up a geochallenge before driving back across the rivers!

Today's hard work

Spent all day trying to get the lattice work done. Really liking the way it is coming together.
This photo is from the pool side of steps. To tired to write much tonight. So enjoy the photo.

Up and running

Okay so were going to be a ability to blog I'm in writing from I'm talking to my galaxy s 3. Okay so were looking good so far um I just recently got rid of my droid x I'm having a lot of issues trying to upload photos from the droid what not and wanted to try something new.
It's actually working pretty well I'm able to talk pretty quickly without too many mistakes I work on 1 or 2 sentences then go back and correct any errors it hears.
3 comes with a gigabyte of ram and I'm telling you what it is an amazing transformation from the droid X.
The most obvious transformation with twice the ram would be that you know you can run a lot more applications at once.
But there are also a lot of a really interesting changes between the 2 phones you know like you can  mute by covering the phones face. It automatically recognizes your face and unlocks it