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It's that time of the year again when I get birthday coupons from nearly every restaurant mailing list to which I've signed up. So I picked the best ones of the lot and planned this weekend's trips around those.

On Saturday, I started the day with breakfast at the local IHOP. Then I went geocaching in Maryland because of the Greene Turtle coupon. This coupon was specifically for their Owings Mills location so I traveled around the north of Baltimore, through Churchville, Bel Air, Timonium, and Hunt Valley. Nothing too unusual, except for two geocaches that were quite challenging. "Don't Stonewall Me" was difficult because it was hidden on the wall of a strip mall building that didn't appear to have any good places to place a cache. But once I found it, I saw that there was indeed a way to make it stay. (one of the crevices had just enough room to sit the tiny tube) "Nano In The Heart of The Valley" on the other hand was difficult because of awkwardness. It turned out to be in the under-skirt area of a bronze statue of a little girl in the middle of a busy shopping center. Really! Luckily, no one was around when I made the grab or it would've looked strange when I picked it out from there. Finally, dinner was a crabby melt at Greene Turtle.

Sunday began with breakfast at Perkins in Avondale. The plan for the day was to do some of the recent geocaches in Southern Lancaster County and pick from a few possibilities depending on where I was at the end of the day.
Hubcap Hoarder was the neatest geocache of the day. It's made of hubcaps! It's good to see some creativity now and then. Later in the day, I was surprised by giant Greek letters in the woods near "The Old Bridge". This cache site is near Millersville University and apparently, the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity has been busy decorating some of the abandoned structures. Dinner was an avocado turkey burger at Ruby Tuesday in Lancaster. My choices were between a birthday burger at Ruby Tuesday or one at Red Robin and Red Robin was a bit further from that side of Lancaster, so I saved the latter for another evening.

The caches... )
mortonfox: (morton blvd)
Rainy, 68-75°F. Early Saturday morning, I headed over to Lehigh Valley, specifically Perkins Restaurant in Bethlehem, to attend the LVGC Breakfast in the Valley III geocaching event. I haven't been to Lehigh Valley in 2 years and to a Lehigh Valley geocaching event in at least 3 years. Still, there was familiarity because we've met at other geocaching events in Bucks and Montgomery Counties. This wasn't a big event, which was fortunate, because the party room at Perkins isn't very big. I had potato pancakes with bacon.

After breakfast, we went as a group of 7 to find a series of geocaches on the Ironton Rail Trail in Coplay. That was a lot of fun, even though we weren't the most efficient group. Everyone else had to leave for various appointments at 2pm but I continued geocaching on the IRT and generally around Coplay and Northampton. Then I went to Nazareth and did the "Scooby's Streak By Bushkill Creek" series of geocaches. This is another power trail. The "streak" geocaches are all roadside, all hidden the same way, and mostly placed at 0.1-mile intervals. I found the most efficient way to proceed was to keep my automotive GPS in offroad mode and showing the distance/speed screen. I pulled over when the distance got to around 150 feet and stopped the car when it got to 25 feet. There were some caches in the series where I didn't stop at quite the correct spot but generally, stopping at that distance ensured that the cache was just a bit in front of the car so I could find it quickly.

Dinner was at the Easton Long John Silver's, an old familiar place. I had a fish combo. I noticed that they've improved the recipe for the fries. It's a bit more like Hardee's now. However, the place isn't the same any more since the cashier I knew moved to Lancaster. After dinner, I did a few more geocaches at night, bringing the total for the day to 56 finds!

The caches... )

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