Hi. Thanks for checking out our blog. Patty and I retired last summer and were worried about maybe being bored since we both had frantic jobs. That has not been a problem. We've taken to traveling, working out, orienteering and geocaching. We especially like geocaching and do it all the time. In fact, this winter it was -20 one morning and we went out caching just to say we did it.
We're in our late 50's but that doesn't stop us. We keep ourselves in good shape and were out hiking and geocaching in the Tetons last fall at 10,000 feet. Our goal is to get at least three caches in every state. So far, we've done 30 and will pick up about 10 more this summer.
We also enjoy touring historical places like battlefields. We even have a geocaching X-File. We saw a ghost at Shiloh Battlefield in February.
The geocaching community is growing by leaps and bounds. We have actively encouraged people to go out there and get started. It's a great way to stay sharp, get some exercise and see places you'd never get to otherwise. We always get questions from our friends and families about what we're doing. So we decided to kill a couple birds with one stone and put our travel chronicles on the web. We started with Flickr but it wasn't enough, so we built a full blown website called offthebeatenpath.ws. It's a one stop shop for geocaching, history, travel, places to eat, equipment and other information. You can read our ghost story and check out our Top 10 lists, including the Top 10 Ways How NOT to Find a Geocache. We've had fun doing it.
We started this blog to enhance the website. We can update it with current activities that might not make the website, but could be of interest to others.
You'll also find us on Facebook under Don 'n' Patty.
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So again, welcome.
Don (Alpha6) and Patty (KisdRN)
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Don and I went goecaching around our home area this past weekend. The weather was great and it felt good to be outside hiking again.
ReplyDeleteOur first cache was in Sunfish Lake Park in Lake Elmo. We didn't have a map of the trails and our GPS pointed us in the direction the crow flies. We used our new walkie talkies that my son and daughter-in-law gave us for Christmas. They were great. We split up and were able to keep in contact as we searched and found the cache.
We ended the day in a culvert under a road with water running through it. This cache had several DNFs so were determined to find it which we did.
This Saturday we plan on attending our first orienteering meet of the season. Hope the weather is ok as snow is a possibility.
Patty