It's been a year.....

1st Sgt sends me an e-mail....to remind that it has been a year! WOW...a year of geocaching.
I really don't think I am any wiser ( older, but not wiser!) I have made some progress since day 1. I am richer....Monetary (?)...ah no, as I am still waiting on the movie deal. No... I am richer with Friends and Memories!

I have come across lots of critters, some dead.... some alive.....and some rubber. I have donated lots of blood to mosquito's and named my first tick. I have been scared "half to death" at least twice!

I am happy to say that I have been able to log a few "I found it" along with my DNF's. Grabbed me a couple Travel bugs over the year, and even sent one of my own out.

I have fallen down embankments, hugged a few trees ( to keep from falling) I have been attacked by thorns and a killer corn stalk. I have tripped over my own feet.. other peoples feet and had my hand stuck in a historic monument. Happy to report.... no broken bones...(yet!)

I have slid on the ice, slid on gravel, I have been stuck in the snow and stuck in the mud. I have parked on sidewalks, driven in ditches and jumped out of cars before they were put in park. I have raced to FTF's and ended up on unnamed roads ( not intentionally) Happy to report... ( as far as I know) never caused an accident. (Yet !)

I have been in more cemeteries than a funeral director. I have had to reboot my I-phone, reboot my Tom-Tom, reboot some friends, and reboot my brain!

As far as knowing...Up from Down...North from South, well I am still working on it! I have been lost in woods, turned around, turned upside down and have experienced an occasional "out of my mind". I have been reacquainted with "my other right" ..had a show and tell on poison Ivy was in attendance for the" Latest on Ticks" lesson... and...( best of all) fell in Love with Duct Tape all over again!.

I have learned what a LPC is, a preform, lock -n- lock, Bison tube and a nano. I have come across locks, screws, rocks and magnets ...all containing sign in logs. I now know that a Difficulty of 3 and a Terrain of 2...is all perspective...and I am STILL looking for "the" tunnel. I have re-confirmed my thoughts...that when it comes to hints...Men are from Venus and Women are from......( let's just drop that one)

My vocabulary is full of TFTC...SL...TNLN....FTF....BYOP...SWAG...GPS....CITO....GZ....ETA ...TB! This I get... but I still don't know what OBCJY stands for !

It's been a year....and still having fun! So, to all my geocaching friends...here's to year 2! Let's get older and wiser together! Happy Caching...see you on the trails!