MWGB, Day 1

Well, here I am. Sitting in my motel room - no camping in the rain! I can decide what I want to do, when I want to eat, for the next three days as well as today. I've discovered I like taking vacations alone. No disrespect for family and friends intended.

Started off this morning intending to leave about 7 a.m. Steve was checking my car's fluid levels before I left, though, and accidentally dropped the lid to the brake fluid reservoir down inside the car. He ended up having to take the wheel off in order to find it. So I was on the road about 7:45 or so. Picked up a few caches along the way to the Lansing area including one called "Bear Bait" that is in Fitzgerald Park in Grand Ledge. One of my bears has the last name of Fitzgerald. So have had this one on my someday list for a while.

Ran into rain between Lansing and Howell on I-96. It was still raining by the time I hit the first rest stop cache in Livingston County, which was one of the three counties I planned to add to my found list today. So wore a rain poncho and stayed relatively dry. Then did some caching in Brighton and went down 23 towards Ann Arbor but made a brief dash into Wayne County to pick up a cache there. Then down towards Ann Arbor again, picked up some Washtenaw County caches. Down US 12 to MI-52 which turned into Ohio 109, then US 20 to Ohio 108 and Wauseon. 25 caches in about 10 hours of driving time.

The motel isn't the greatest Super 8 I've ever stayed in. It'll be ok, though, and it seems to be safe. Went to Taco Bell's drive through and spent the evening in the room logging caches and downloading Wauseon caches to my GPS.

Almost paperless caching went ok today. I plugged the computer into a converter so I wasn't losing battery power, had GSAK running so I could look up the next cache before I left the previous one. The downloads into my GPS are just the waypoints, not the names as I'm used to. So tomorrow will be different in that regard. There are some geocaching activities also taking place so tomorrow will probably not be totally caching itself, but other fun related to caching. Plus I will be exchanging my 16 travelers for new travelers, that's always fun. There's a separate area with hundreds of travelers sorted by where they want to go or what they want to do.

It's been a very long day and time to get to bed. More tomorrow from Wauseon...