Morton Fox's journal

Sunny, 90°F. Today, I went down Route 1 to Rehoboth Beach. It was more of a shopping trip than a geocaching trip, although I did get a bunch of caches on the way and in town. I'm not that fond of going to the outlet malls, especially in the Summer when you have shopping traffic combined with shore traffic, making the whole resort town pretty much a nightmare. However, I was down to my last pair of general-purpose shoes and the Reebok outlet over there is one place where I can usually find size 15 wide shoes and try those on. Plus, I had a set of outlet mall coupons for this month. I also stopped at the Corelle Outlet to buy a single plate to replace the one that I took to the office. Yes, I'm pretty much a one-or-two-items-per-store shopper.

Most of the geocaches I did today were on or near Route 1 and US-13. I think the two most challenging geocaches of the day were "MHS Victory" and "1~11~11". At the latter, it seemed the entire mosquito population of Rehoboth Beach was at the cache site. "Reduce Reuse Recycle" was a difficult hide too but it took me just a second to realize that it was hidden the exact same way as the cache owner's other cache, "Summer Snow", and how convenient it was that I visited the two caches in sequence.

Dinner was a turkey burger at Hardee's in Middletown. I figured it would be better to go most of way home before stopping for food, so I wouldn't be faced with a 1.5-hour drive after dinner.

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Cloudy and 65-75°F. Went to the southern part of the state today to complete the First State Challenge. I'd already found 12 of the 22 caches on previous trips out, so I only needed to do the remaining 10, but because of the distances involved, those were just about all I had time for. I did find a few more that weren't part of the challenge. "DGT Nutter Marvel Carriage Museum" was at the entrance to the historical society compound where "FSC-2010 Georgetown" was. "Rehoboth Beach Travel Bug Condo" was on the way out (well, give or take a few turns) from "FSC-2010 Rehoboth Beach". And "Recycle Delaware" was on the way home and findable in the dark.

Since this excursion ended in Rehoboth Beach, we browsed the Tanger outlet stores there. Didn't buy anything though. I knew from past experience that their prices weren't that great but it's still interesting to see what's available.

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