Almost a year after I actively started pursuing this goal, I can now say my geo-calendar is complete. This means that I have found (at least) one geocache during every calendar day of the year, including February 29. (Thanks to my muggle mom for driving us to see the manatees that day in 2008 when we were visiting her in Florida!)
There were some struggles to get a few of the days I hadn't filled in five years of caching. The holidays come to mind - I still had to find caches on Christmas Day, New Years Eve, and a few other special days. I managed. Also had a struggle on February 2. That was the day of the big blizzard of 2011. A geocaching friend came through and picked me up in his 4WD Jeep and took me to find a cache.
I thought my last day might be a pretty big struggle, though. Today was the first day of our semi-annual staff development at work. I had to be there at 8 a.m. - then report to a local hotel (the Amway Grand Plaza) after the kids were picked up by their dads; dinner together with the staff; then free at about 8:30 p.m., with no easy caches within walking distance of the hotel. So the only solution - leave early for work!
Had been saving the State Search Challenge caches for a geo-calendar day, so went to the 15 state challenge first - and made the find, completing the geo-calendar, at 7:15 a.m. Since I had time to spare, ended up getting the 10 and 5 state challenges as well and still got to work with time to spare. I have found geocaches in 17 states all together so those three challenges are all I qualify for in the series for now.
Am now at the Amway, enjoying the nice room with the (for once) beautiful view of the rivers in downtown Grand Rapids; and also enjoyed a nice meal with my co-workers. After breakfast together, they get to go do more staff development and I get to go back and spend another day at the clubhouse with the kids. Hard to remember sometimes that I'm part of the team. (wistful thinking, but would love to be with the rest as I know it's not all work.)bu
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