2trux encountered some serious problems with our Garmin 60CSx today. We first noticed it acting up, while we were in the Cave Hill Cemetery. There were times when it seemed to freeze up. With it set on a particular waypoint, the numbers didn’t change. Since we’d been here before, we knew where to go – even if the GPSr wasn’t being cooperative.
After we left the cemetery and started heading for GW7, we had a few occassions where the screen would fade and then the unit would turn itself off. 2trux would turn it back on, reselect the waypoint in our “recent finds” and continue on our way. We tried changing batteries, removing and reseating the memory card, but it didn’t resolve the problem.
2trux was a bit concerned, since we had left our Magellan Meridian Color GPS at home. Travelling to a major event with a broken GPSr will be a bummer!
Got up this morning and decided to do some caches in the Louisville area.
Revisited the Cave Hill Cemetery. Last summer we visited this cemetery, but missplaced our answers. Visted many of the locations again – but I still need to get the pictures off candlelady’s camera. Looking at the geocaching.com Google map for The Spring virtual cache, one can see that there are a number of caches in this cemetery.
candlelady enjoys cemetery caches – this is one of the nicest cemeteries we’ve ever visited.
2trux & candlelady headed out on today, to begin our cache trip to Bell Buckle, TN (home of GeoWoodstock VII). Today, we are headed for Louisville, KY where we have a reservation at a hotel where we’ve stayed in the past. Since we got a late start, we weren’t planning to “cache along the route”. As we got into southern Ohio, we started to play leapfrog with a car with New York license plates.
2trux thought “they must be geocachers, also headed for GW7″ considering the number of handheld GPSR’s on the dashboard. Decided to visit the next rest stop (Do or DIE on 71 EYE) and the other 2 cars stopped here too. Met MickEMT and the rest of the cachers from the two cars. We headed over to the cache and found it as a group.
2trux & candlelady attended the Pi Day Party – 3.14 event today, which was hosted by the C-bus Splinter Cell. All the pies were great!
We enjoyed talking with old friends and meeting some of the newer cachers from Central Ohio. We passed out a few of our pathtags and were given two new ones to add to our collection.
2trux & candlelady attended the Cache & Coffee 2009 – Dublin Edition this afternoon. The plan is for this to be a monthly event, held on the last Saturday of the month.
After the event, we went out with LarryC43230 and kelinore to do the Alder TB Hotel cache. Jonathan Alder (1773 -1849) [First White Settler in Madison County], is buried here.
2trux attended the Cache & Coffee event for February tonight. We had approximately 22 people, including a new cacher.
BigBill54 has been setting up a CITO to be held on April 25th along the Olentangy Bikeway in Columbus, Ohio.
After we attended the Kentuckiana event this morning, we spent the afternoon caching. We had a lot of DNF‘s (did not finds). For some, we found ourselves on the wrong side of a creek. Even though it was a nice day, it’s still February and my boots aren’t waterproof. Those caches would at least one or two steps into 6 inch deep water. Other’s were caches that hadn’t been found in awhile.
We’d planned to revisit the Cave Hill Cemetery and redo the caches we found last summer (and didn’t log). Unfortunately it was closed due to the recent ice storm.
For dinner, we drove over to Clarksville, Indiana and met and some cacher’s (out of towner’s like us) at a restaurant. We enjoyed dinner and the fellowship.
2trux & candlelady attended the 6 Annual Kentuckiana Meet & Eat in Louisville, KY today. Given that it’s early February, it’s always a gamble as to whether we’ll be able to attend. We look forward to the event – this marks our 4th year in attendance. It’s a chance to get out of the house, spend time with cachers we see at other events in the region, and do some caching in the Louisville, KY/Clarksville, IN area.
Upon leaving the restaurant, we started walking towards the closest event cache (Need Cheese). We noticed another couple (Lumberjack Tom & Smee3) headed in the same direction. We all found the rat (cache), then joined them on a walk to find the rest of the event caches.
2trux & candlelady attended the first Cache & Coffee event for 2009 last night. We had approximately 20 people – a great turnout for the evening.
We decided that we would start off the year with a blog devoted to our geocaching adventures. We might write about a cache we’ve found or an event we attended. We will add links to resources that we use, so that other cacher’s might be able to benefit from our knowledge.
Caching, Garmin 60CSx | 2trux | 
May 22, 2009 6:00 pm | 
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