December 9, 2024 • 64 mins
What happens when a mini-bank cache needs a car battery, and how does an Alaskan cruise tie into geocaching? These are just a couple of intriguing tales from our latest journey on Treasures of Our Town. Join us for a delightful conversation of our part 2 of the Potpourri series, where we answer your questions and share our travel dreams. We're buzzing with excitement about our upcoming adventure at the Texas Challenge Mega Event, a highlight in the geocaching world, and can't wait to bring you along through our stories and plans for the event.
Our exploration continues as we navigate the creative geocaching landscapes of West Virginia, marveling at the genius of West Virginia Tim's caches. From mini-banks to breathtaking views at Cache Across America, the journey is filled with adventure and surprise. We also take you on a non-geocaching tour, sharing our experiences with movie location pilgrimages and food and drink trails, all while intertwining these with our geocaching escapades. Ever thought of a geocaching-themed cruise? We brainstorm this exciting possibility and dream of sharing the adventure with you.
As we wrap up, we share the thrill of geocaching challenges that push our limits, highlighting cross-country quests and the camaraderie they inspire. Our heartfelt Thanksgiving tradition of watching "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" adds a personal touch to our episode, celebrating community pride and shared passions. Whether you're a geocaching enthusiast or love cinematic adventures, this episode promises a blend of excitement, nostalgia, and anticipation, inviting you to explore the treasures of our town and beyond.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What the listeners at home don't realize is that
Craig just made an edit righthere because I had too much Dr
Pepper and I had to pay.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That's going to start the show.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Do you love to travel ?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Do you love road trips?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Do you love finding hidden treasures in towns all
over the USA?
Hi, I'm Joshua.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I'm Craig.
Welcome to Treasures of OurTown.
It's the podcast that exploresunique and charming towns
scattered throughout the UnitedStates.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Guided by our love for location-based games like
geocaching, join us as weventure into some of the
country's most intriguingdestinations, uncovering hidden
gems and local secrets along theway.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
On today's episode.
Josh, this is part two, parttwo of Potpourri, potpourri,
whatever you want to say of allour patrons, all our patrons,
Josh.
They reached out to us again.
They enjoyed it and we have tofinish.
Yes, we have to finish what westarted with.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yes, you know, Potpourri is such a delicious
smell and this is hopefully justa wonderful sweetness to your
ears as you listen to ourpotpourri of questions from the
patrons.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yes, exactly right, exactly right.
And before we get to that,though, josh, again, as always,
delays and upgrades.
Mate, do you want to start withthat, or?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You know, craig, yes, I will start.
And you know, on this I willstart.
And you know, on this podcastwe don't talk about the weather,
but I'm going to.
I'm going to because it'sconnected to my delay, uh, this
evening as of the recording ofthis.
We're down, we're now indecember, right?
Yes, and yeah here in the northwe're in the teens Fahrenheit
(01:45):
oh oh, oh.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Is that what you meant by teens last night?
Oh, I thought you meant, as inteenagers were invading your
house.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, that happened too.
That actually happened too.
My nephew and my niece werehere, yeah, but that's not a
delay.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I always enjoy it when they visit.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
But no, we're in the teens.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
As far as temperature , it's getting cold here in
minnesota, which has me itchingalready to get out of here yes,
yes, yes, just get out of herehead south head exactly, exactly
, fly south in the winter, um,but meanwhile, josh, though as
well see, a lot of people don'tunderstand, but in australia we
have, you know, there's fourseasons every year.
Well, that's divided up into inAustralia, it's divided up into
(02:27):
three months, you see.
So the 1st of December is the1st of summer in Australia.
You see so we don't do theequinox thing like you guys do
here.
It kind of makes sense what youdo here in regards to the
equinox and how your systems arein place, whereas in Australia
it's three months.
Three months, the first ofevery month, the first of that
month, the first of the month.
So that's how it works.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That makes a lot of sense.
Which crazy is, it's not evenwinter here.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
No, I know, that's what I mean.
That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
December 22nd, so it's not even winter, and I'm
already wanting to get out ofthis state.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And it's already summer in Australia, exactly
right.
So there you go.
What's it going to be like foryou in January, mate?
It's going to be bad.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
We certainly have to escape, and I know you have some
adventures ahead of you, I'msure, and so do I, and that's
actually part of my upgrade, soI'm going to roll right into my
upgrade.
Yeah, what's your upgrade?
This is actually an upgradeslash announcement for both you
(03:28):
and I.
Yes, it is, it is official.
We will be going to the texaschallenge mega event slash block
party event.
Yeah, on the week weekend ofmarch 15th and 16th.
We'll actually be there betweenthe 13th and the 16th, but, um,
this is the oldest mega ever.
Like.
This is the oldest mega.
Like this is the first mega.
(03:50):
The first mega that ever wascreated was in texas, and so
this is the big, like 25thanniversary celebration, the
23rd time they've done the texaschallenge, and I'm excited
because it's in a little towncalled Floresville.
Floresville, texas.
It is 45 minutes outside of SanAntonio, which we have talked
about on this podcast.
(04:11):
I love visiting San Antonio,but Floresville is a nice town
of 8,000 people.
That's like, that's perfect.
Like there are going to be somany hidden treasures there that
we're going to uncover anddiscover, uncover, uncover
Exactly many hidden treasuresthere that we're gonna uncover
on earth and discover, uncover,uncover, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Meanwhile, if we're both going to be there, that
means we're going to do likesome sort of you know video, etc
and maybe even a podcast or two, uh episode on too.
So keep your eyes and ears outfor that one.
Um and josh, I've already gotan idea for the actual.
You know the edit of the videotoo.
Oh, we might just you know.
You know the tv show, I'll giveit away.
You know the tv show likestorage wars, that sort of show
(04:49):
yes, I know that show.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
What about?
What about cash?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
wars where, because it's a challenge, you see you
think about it, I can get.
I can get, like you know, fiveor six different people who are
doing the challenge individually, and if I can get some footage
of them and if I can get someinterviews with them as well, I
can then do the edit.
Josh, that's like storage warsbut cache wars, and then you
don't find out the actual totalwinner until the very end of the
show.
So that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I like that idea.
We're going to have to getthese five people.
We're going to have to let themshare their location on their
phone so we can chase them down.
So they'll be hunting forcaches and we'll be hunting for
them and I'll be this kind oflike the host.
Yes, yes, and I will.
Uh, we'll feature floresville,the, the city, and we'll feature
(05:34):
the event and yes, of course,we will do a podcast as well.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
But anyway, this is sort of my.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I know you have other southern travels, uh, ahead of
you, but but for me this isgoing to be probably my first
chance to get out of Minnesotaand I'm very excited about it,
and so thank you.
All the folks that are planningTexas Challenge, take a look at
the webpage for Texas Challenge.
I wish I had the.
I don't have the GC number.
We'll put it in the show notes,yeah, but they have a great
(06:01):
week of events planned as theycelebrate the big 23rd slash,
25th anniversary of geocaching.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Exactly right, exactly right.
Yeah, I'll be already downthere.
I'll be amongst it anyway, josh.
So, yeah, I like the warmth, Ilike the warmth.
So, meanwhile, my upgrade.
I'll start with my upgradefirst, and that is Thanksgiving.
Happened between the lastcouple of episodes and you know
what?
It was my third one.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, andwhy not let Thanksgiving be an
(06:29):
upgrade for everyone out there?
That's what I'll say.
Spending time with familyfriends, eating some good food,
cooking some good food.
I'm the cook, josh, so I cooksome good food, along with my
mother-in-law as well, sohelping her out in the kitchen.
It was great times to had andum, and just even after, after
you have that big lunch,watching like two or three
people just literally doze offon the couch.
(06:51):
That's great.
You know your job's done.
When that happens, you knowthat whole calmness.
There's no stress.
You know we need more of thatin everyone's lives.
I think so, yeah, so that wasmy upgrade, just thanks.
Thanksgiving in general.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Craig, so you don't have Thanksgiving, obviously in
Australia.
No, like what do you you know,you've experienced a lot of our
holidays Like what do you thinkof Thanksgiving?
Do you think it's like, yeah,this is a, this is a good
holiday?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I mean, I think it's, it's a it good holiday, for
what a holiday is, and that isjust to literally take time out.
Stop, stop, think, be thankfuland enjoy.
You know what you actually havearound you family and friends
and food.
You know what I mean.
And because, let's be honest,josh, because there's some
people out there who don't haveany of that sort of stuff too.
(07:37):
So, um, for those that don't,you know, try and work on some
sort of way in order to makethat occur, make some
connections, you know, seek outsome help and seek out some
people.
So, for me, thanksgiving isvery much a deep, deep thought
process of a holiday, as opposedto, like you know, halloween or
(07:57):
Christmas or Easter, any ofthose other types.
For me, thanksgiving isdifferent again, and that's only
what I've learned in the lastthree years.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I really appreciate Thanksgiving because,
as far as American holidaysgoes, it doesn't have as much
pressure around it If you thinkabout it.
A lot of our other holidaysthere's a lot of pressure around
it, and this is just about,yeah, like you said, enjoying a
meal.
I mean, gratitude is all apositive thing.
Gratitude is very important inour lives.
So, yeah, I am a big fan ofThanksgiving as well, very
(08:25):
important in our lives.
So, yeah, I am a big fan ofThanksgiving as well, and so
it's really challenging for meto consider skipping it next
year as I'm officially invitedto Las Vegas by the Geocaching
Podcast because they're going todo the ET Highway on
Thanksgiving.
So that's tough.
It's tough to say to my familyyou know what?
(08:47):
I'm gonna go hang out in thedesert, uh, during thanksgiving
and not be with you.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But we'll see what happens that's the reason why I
always say it's it's good toreflect and be thankful for
family and friends, you see soyou know, you can family and
friends.
That's the friends.
Next year it could be thefriends component as opposed to
the family component that it wasthis year.
So I'm only putting littletwigs on the fire, josh.
That's all.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm doing, I hear it.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Meanwhile, my delay, josh, is that I'm starting to
strip down my car.
When I say strip it down, Imean strip it of all the extra
things that I've put in it, likefor the camper van sort of
style.
Um, so I'm taking off the theroof mount stuff, I'm taking out
the electricity, I'm taking outall that because I'm going to
sell it next week to more of adealer sort of thing.
So it's a less of a price, butyou know, um, it is what it is.
(09:35):
You know, um, it is what it is.
So it's easy way to get rid ofit done and I'm not actually
putting any hassle on anyoneelse if any other issues occur
with it too.
So I'd hate to sell it tosomeone, josh, and then then
then buy it then then have allhassles too.
So I'd rather just go through adealer and let the dealer sort
it out.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, let them deal with it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Exactly yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And they, yeah, they know, they know what they're
getting.
And you know dealerships too.
They have.
You know, dealerships too.
They have resources.
Like most dealerships have amechanic shop in there, so they
can fix it for so much more thanany individual would do Exactly
.
So that's a delay.
But you know what?
I think it's also kind of alittle bit of an upgrade,
(10:17):
because you're going to finallyget that thing off your hands.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Exactly right.
Exactly right, and that's justbefore next week.
I will fly out to Arizona topick up the new van.
The new van's already got aname and everything Josh, her
name, it's a her.
This one, her name's Tuesday.
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I'm so excited for you.
That's really amazing.
Yes, yes, the journey begins.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
All right, josh, do you want to get a start on this?
Do you want to discuss aboutwhat potpourri is again, or you
want, yes, yes, potpourri again?
We will.
We will define it for you.
The dictionary says potpourriis a mixture of dried petals and
spices placed in a bowl or asmall sack to perfume clothing
or in a room.
So today we hope to perfumeyour ears with the beautiful
sounds of answering thequestions from our patrons.
We did this on the last episodeand we're going to continue now
.
It's just a variety.
(11:13):
It's a mishmash of questionstravel related, and it bleeds
into geocaching, which, ofcourse, is also what this
podcast is about, and we knowthat we, according to Good Pods,
we are the number onegeocaching podcast in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
This year, exactly right.
So thank you very much to GoodPods for their support.
All right, josh, I'm going toget into the first one, and the
first one for this episode isfrom Alison Burtman, and she
goes straight into thegeocaching.
She wants to go straight intothe caches.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
She says what about getting some talk about West
Virginia, tim's geocaches andalso Geo Woodstock for 2025.
So yeah, geo Woodstock nextyear as well.
Have you done any of the gadgetcaches themselves?
And also, what about WestVirginia's oldest, because you
have to do that via atvs to getthere, the alternative that
(12:08):
sounds that sounds like a lot offun actually.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So the questions around west virginia tim.
So if you're not a geocacherwhich there's probably a few of
them out there west virginia timis a very prolific geocache
hider.
He's hidden many geocaches inMartinsville, west Virginia, and
there's some of the bestgeocaches out there Certainly
(12:32):
one of the best series ofgeocaches out there, because
they are gadget caches, which,if you don't know what a gadget
cache, it's a cache that is easyto find, but there's a little
trick to get into it.
There's a little puzzle, alittle field puzzle, to get into
it.
There's a little puzzle, alittle field puzzle, to get into
it, and so there are several inthe West Virginia area.
And because Geo Woodstock thisMay is happening in West
(12:52):
Virginia, allison is asking isthis worth it?
Should we take some time tofind West Virginia's Tim's
geocaches?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Because they are about an hour and a half away
from the actual geo woodstockitself as well.
So I mean you can either a gothere, you know, before or after
geo woodstock itself.
I always say I'm an advocatefor geo woodstock in terms of
the actual day, the saturday,which geo would rule out
anything, don't go anywhere.
Go to the geo woodstock andthat's it.
You know, stay on site.
You know, listen to our podcast.
(13:24):
It's going to be recorded liveon air et cetera, stuff like
that too.
So you know there's plenty to doon site and I suggest people
always stay on site as much asthey can for Geo Woodstock
itself.
But the days leading up to it,josh, you can get like a taste,
a flavor taste of geocaching etcetera as you go through West
Virginia and do West Virginiateams caches.
I always do this anyway,normally, and so do you.
(13:46):
I learned from you actually,and that is sort by favorite
points, josh, put a minimum.
Put a minimum on your list of,say, literally, if you're in
West Virginia, 100 favoritepoints is a minimum and you will
still get a good chunk ofcaches.
Just saying, because some ofthese gadgets, josh, they take a
long time to do.
Yeah they take a long time to dowhen you take a bit, they take
(14:07):
a bit, yeah, yeah, have you donea few of these at all?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
yeah, I've done a handful of west virginia tim's
caches.
I haven't done all of them.
I actually just looked at the.
There's actually a geo tour.
There's actually an officialgeo tour that is connected with
all, uh, several of westvirginia tim's caches.
But the one of the things aboutwest virginia tim's caches, but
the one of the things about westvirginia tim's caches, is that
they're really well done,they're they're well maintained
(14:31):
and they're sturdy and they'rewell built.
I have never, uh, done a westvirginia tim cache and thought,
boy, this one is really, youknow, going downhill.
He does such a great job, greatjob making them constructed so
well.
Yes, and what I really loveabout them is that you, as you
do several of them, you kind ofget into the mind of Tim, yes,
(14:54):
and as you do them, they almostkind of get easier, because Tim
is very much thinks outside thebox and so, but there's, he has
a style, and you're like, okay,I am now in the mind of west
virginia, tim, and that is areally fun and beautiful,
beautiful place to be.
Um, so, yes, I, I enjoyed them.
Um, they're the variety, likethere's no cash, that is the
(15:17):
same, while, while they havelike a similar, like you know,
as far as like style of how theyare created like sturdy and
they're all like a similar.
Like you know, as far as likestyle of how they are created
like sturdy and they're all likea little bit different, which
is really really a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Have you done them?
Yes, yeah, I've done quite afew of them as well.
I did them when I first cameover here for a whole day myself
and great caches Danny andDanny took me out and we did a
whole heap of West VirginiaTimms caches that they loved and
and we did a whole heap of WestVirginia Tim's caches that they
loved and so it was good for mebecause they were on site with
me so if I did actually need ahand or a hint in a direction
(15:50):
that they could show me, so Inever got frustrated with them,
you see.
So some of them can be a littlebit daunting.
You have to read a lot, youhave to sort of get in there.
But in saying that as well, Ifind where he's placed them, a
lot of the people, like in termsof the so-called muggles, know
already about them.
They know about geocaching andsome of them are around
businesses.
Then businesses have actuallyallowed to have it out there and
(16:12):
they're proud to actually havethe geocache in their parking
lot or whatever and they takecare of that cache as well.
So I mean, I think one of myfun fine ones was it was a
really nice constructed, uh likelike letterbox sort of style um
birdhouse, and it was in theexact shape and color and
everything as the bank in whichit was.
In the parking lot of the bank,it had the bank's handwriting
(16:35):
on the front.
It had the stickers of the bankaround it as well, so it was
decorated as the bank.
So it's like a mini bank.
But what you had to do for thisone, josh, is you had, you had
these two little prongs thatcome out the side and you had to
attach your battery to your carto these and if you attach them
the correct way, the aerialcomes up from the chimney area
and out pops the little um, thelittle log book you see from the
(16:57):
top, and then you swap themover and it goes back down.
So just simple.
Things like that sometimes arefantastic.
So yeah, I've.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I've done that one as well.
I actually have a video of thatone.
That's fantastic and you'reright, there's like a.
I remember there's another oneand they're all birdhouses,
usually because he just feelslike that's a great way to
disguise a geocache.
And one was like at a statefarm insurance place and again
he painted the birdhouse to looklike a state farm.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Like a good neighbor, exactly, exactly.
But while you're there as well,and you're doing those caches,
don't forget with Geo Woodstock,there's the cache across
America.
One, josh, right around thecorner from Geo Woodstock as
well.
Oh, really, in Borgentown.
Yes, have you done that one atall?
I?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
have not.
No, but I haven't done that one.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It is a beautiful I've got a video of that one,
Josh.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yes, I have a video of that one.
We'll put them in the shownotes.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Finally, I can say it .
I can actually say I've got avideo rather than just you.
Yeah, no, the West VirginiaCash Across America is an
absolutely stunning walk.
It is a bit of a walk, get somelength there to it, but where
you end up, you don't just endup with this humongous like a
larger-than-life ammo can Likeit is a big ammo can sort of
size but you end up on thisoutcropping and overlooking this
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beautiful canyon Because theysay West Virginia it's the
mountains and the valleys.
And, yeah, you end up on top ofthis mountain overlooking this
beautiful valley, and it's justabsolutely stunning.
So don't forget the cash acrossAmerica, west Virginia, while
you're there, and justabsolutely stunning.
(18:32):
So don't forget the cash acrossamerica, west virginia, while
you're there.
And then they talk about, aswell as I spoke about, the
oldest in west virginia and thatone there is in regards to the
atv rides.
Now, I do believe the people whoare running geo woodstock are
organizing, josh, they'reorganizing for those people who
want to do it to be able to hirethese all-terrain vehicles from
a particular location and aplace, and even if you can't
drive one, you can be driven byone there as well, or team up
(18:53):
with other people.
So go on and check theirwebsite.
Again, links in the description.
But geowoodstockxxicom is theirwebsite.
Make sure you go and check outtheir website and all the
details are on their website.
And don't forget as well, makesure you click your will attend
because this is going to be ahuge, huge event.
Not many more people need to beon the log now, josh to either.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Before it goes to the big g word the big giga the
second ever giga event, possiblyin america, and that's where we
met for the first time.
Remember that moment.
It was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It was a beautiful moment not for that many people
around us.
Everyone around us was lookingwith strange eyes, but apart
from that, that's okay they werea little weirded out, um, but
yeah, um, alley, alley.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So I I think you you've got something to look
forward to if you want to getthat oldest one.
Um, to me it's a littleintimidating to like.
I've never actually driven anATV, so it would be nice to go
with somebody, depending on yourexperience, because people can,
like, flip these things over,and they're not always but it'd
be nice to be able to go withsomebody that knows something
(19:58):
about ATV instead of just doingthis on your own.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I find that this could just, josh, this could
just be a smaller version of you, me and Tim when we did the
geocac in Arizona recently aswell.
We were in that Jeep and wewere like almost rock.
What do you call it?
Rock climbing or rock hoppingin that Jeep?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yes, rock scrambling, whatever they call it yeah,
something, whatever the term isfor jeeping through rocks.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, I don't know, know I don't know the term, but
yeah, that's what I feel like itcould be, but on a smaller
version, smaller scale.
So maybe tim could be ourdriver ally, ally.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
We might need to do that with you, um, I have
another thing just.
I just have note about the westvirginia tim, of course,
geocaches.
I did take a look at the WestVirginia Tim geocaches.
I did take a look at theGeoTour page on geocachingcom
and the original GeoTour had 66caches Currently.
Right now a lot of them aredisabled or archived, which I
(21:02):
just have some curiosity aroundthat.
I don't know if they're listed.
Maybe you know the answer tothis question to you or um craig
.
If they're listed, um, on thegeo tour page and some are
disabled and you don'tnecessarily, if you find all the
ones that are currently active,do you still get the souvenir?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
oh, that's, I don't know.
I don't.
I don't know that either.
I haven't got an answer for youfor that.
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
So anyway, my tip for that?
Either I haven't got an answerfor you for that one, either,
yeah, I don't know.
So anyway, my tip for you, ali,is, yeah, take a look at the
GeoTour if that's important toyou to complete it.
But I would also just searchTim's name and just look at
Tim's caches West Virginia Tim'scaches because there are
probably a lot of good ones thathe has hidden that aren't on
the Geo Tour, and then I wouldsort them by favorite points.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yep, yep, absolutely, absolutely.
All right, we're going to moveon now, josh, to our next one.
Now, after our last episode,this person reached back out to
us, josh, and he said we'retalking about Juan Michael Tula.
He said I like how Craig triedto pronounce my name in the
latest episode.
Josh, I know you love popculture, so maybe you can tell
him about the actor I was namedafter.
(22:09):
Do you know that the actor thatyou were named after?
No, that he was named after one, michael Tula.
What actor?
One Michael Tula?
One Michael Vincent, sorry, whoplayed Stringfellow?
Hawk in the show Airwolf oh inAirwolf.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Airwolf.
He was named after, yeah, anactor from airwolf there you go.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
So how do I pronounce his name?
I pronounce it wrong.
I attempted to I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Actually I still don't know j-a n yeah jan Jan.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Jan Michael Tula?
Maybe Jan Michael Tula.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
We're going to mess up again.
He's going to send us anotheremail.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
He really will.
That's good, that's good,though.
More encouragement, morereaching out, it's good, it's
good.
So there you go, anyway, jan,juan, jan, jan.
He asked what are your favoritecity, country or state featured
scavenger hunt or trails orcrawls.
Now he says caveat, doesn'thave to be related to ground
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speak, freeze, tag games or anylocation-based games.
For example, he did the uhlunches and lagers tour in in
the space coast, which is thehome of the obviously dale and
barb from space coast geocachingstore.
Um, but yeah, he did that one.
So do you have any josh thatyou've done as a tour that's not
actually related to geocachingor any you know mobile game base
(23:33):
?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
yeah, he, he gave us a follow-up on the email about
this, so he called on a couplethat I was about to say.
So, yeah, the last episode Italked about the thomas dambo
stuff.
Those are.
Those are considered, you know,trails or they're considered
tours in different cities, likeyeah, so I thought the thomas
dambo trolls would be a goodexample of this another one I
(23:54):
thought of that is now retired,but sometimes state uh tourism
agencies, they create their ownsort of tours to explore their
state.
Yes, and so several years ago Idid this like three different
times.
There were in our state.
There was this tour calledcheckpoint minnesota, where they
had these signs that were nextto these checkpoint signs, next
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to significant things inminnesota, and what you did is
you took a picture of yourselfat the place, so it was kind of
like a virtual.
You uploaded it to the website,and every photo of yourself
that you uploaded to the websiteyou got points, and then you
could redeem these points um, inlike essentially a store, and I
got like nice columbia boots, Igot jackets, I've got that, I
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got backpacks.
So these companies sponsoredthis, and so the more of these
checkpoints you found, the moreum points you got, and thus I
got some really nice prizes.
That's so, um, it's no more,unfortunately, but I think a lot
of states or cities have theseincentives for visiting
different things in their townsyeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And if you need to know more, if you go to a town
or a city or whatever more townsthan cities uh, if you go to
their visitor center, theynormally have a visitor center.
If you go to the visitor center, they'll either A they'll tell
you if they've got, like somesort of tour of sorts or B
they'll just give you the bestplaces to eat and to drink and
to see things, so places youwouldn't ordinarily go.
(25:21):
So there you go.
Myself, josh, I always enjoyanything to do with food or
drink, like beer, etc.
So I love a brewery tour.
I really love brewery tours.
Now I've been to several brewerytours.
One was in flagstaff, arizona,um, like this year we've got
brewery tours here as well, inin new jersey.
(25:42):
But I do love again through appand I know it's a phone app and
we shouldn't be talking aboutphone apps, because that's what
he asked but Untappd has abrewery tour, sometimes in
Untappd as well.
That come out randomly too.
So keep your eye out for thatsort of stuff.
But yeah, I love a brewery tour, josh, I really do.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And he mentioned looking for ones that don't
relate to geocaching or Munzee.
However, a lot of these tourscross.
So a lot of these tours and Ihave a perfect example of that
that it's a tour withoutgeocaching, without anything, or
without Adventure Labs, butalso you can complete the tour
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outside of that.
So the one in flagstaff, forexample, you like, I think it's
connected to actually a website,so it was an adventure lab, but
it was also something that theyjust set up themselves.
So another example of that isthe famous butler county donut
trail, of course, which used tobe an official GeoTour, but I
(26:45):
looked at their website.
It is still a tour that they do, and even when it was a
geocaching tour, if youcompleted all the donut shops,
you got a t-shirt.
So they have kept that going,so it's no longer a GeoTour, but
they have also kept the factthat if you visit all those
donut places, you get a t-shirt.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Well, that's another crossover that we did in that
case.
Well, josh, with the pizza tourthat we did, yes, because again
you don't have to be a geocacherto do the pizza tour and get a
T-shirt.
If you were a geocacher, yougot a T-shirt and you got a coin
, a geocoin.
So you get two for one deal.
So that's another one.
(27:30):
That's the same sort of yeah,they cross over.
And because they cross over sonicely too, let's be honest,
they do, they do, they really do.
So there you go.
Thank you, juan michael, janmichael, but anyway, josh, we're
going to move on now to a goodfriend of uh, of both of ours,
to andy zook.
Yes, you know, andy andy, Iknow andy andy.
He says I like movie locationepisodes.
I like movie locations first.
He says, any episodes thatyou've done about visiting the
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real Punxsutawney, pennsylvania.
Check out how they've embracednot just the movie but all about
Groundhog Day.
So he wants us to talk aboutmovie locations, josh too.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Well, yeah, it wasn't really a question.
He asked us a question.
Yeah, it was like.
Yeah, actually he was like howabout visiting Pennsylvania?
and I'm like yeah, I want to doit.
So, yes, I, I would really loveto visit the real Pexatawney,
(28:23):
pennsylvania and experience thereal Groundhog Day.
Yeah, I would love to do that.
And here's the thing about Andy.
Andy is in the entertainmentindustry, so I I.
That just gave me a great idea.
We love talking.
Let's do a whole episode.
We love talking about movielocations or television show
locations, and he has probablybeen a part of productions where
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he's actually been to some ofthese places, so I think we
should have Andy on the show atsome point.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
There you go, andy.
You heard it here first, maybebefore we even reach out to you
that we can have you on the showcome early 2025.
Absolutely, we're going to gethim on the show.
Well, I mean, we did have DaveBarsky from dirty jobs.
Have, um, dave barsky fromdirty jobs?
Oh, he was on the show too,josh, and he again, same thing
we.
He spoke to us in regards tohis favorite locations of
filming locations and why theywere good locations outside of
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geocaching, which is great,which is really really cool.
Um, mate, I would love to go tothe rural punxsutawney
pennsylvania as well.
We've got a again another goodfriend of both of ours, josh as
well, dan truck and miller the.
He lives in Watsontown and he'sa patron as well, and
Watsontown is about two hoursdrive east, so if I was to see
him again then, yeah, I couldeasily just go two hours east
(29:35):
and see this PunxsutawneyPennsylvania as well.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It's probably difficult to get a hotel
anywhere near there duringGroundhog Day, so we might have
to sleep on Dan's farm two hoursaway and get up at like three
in the morning and head overthere.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It wouldn't be hard to do because obviously the
rooster you knowcock-a-doodle-doo at 5 am.
So, if you sleep through youralarm, then you'll be waking up
early anyway.
It also reminded me, josh, aswell, of my recent trip when I
was in the UK.
I know it's outside the us, butI love the tv show ted lasso.
(30:14):
Ted lasso it's on apple tv.
It is a fantastic and it's areally a wholesome tv show.
This one, josh, if you haven'tseen it, um, yeah, absolutely,
it's a must watch for me.
And a quick rundown is thatit's an.
It's an american guy and hegoes over to the UK to coach a
soccer team in which he's got noidea about what soccer is about
.
And the woman who owns thesoccer team, she wants to run
the soccer team into the groundbecause it's her ex-husband's
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team, and so that's why shehires him.
Push comes to shove.
He does a really good job,surprisingly, and it's a really
good, feel good sort of TV show.
The whole show, josh, the entireshow was filmed in one little
area, one place called richmondin the uk, like a little
richmond town, and so I did atour with a tour guide around
richmond and mate.
(30:57):
It was fantastic.
This tour guide knew everything, which she calls herself a ted
head because it's ted lasser.
So she's a ted head.
Um, she knew every particularlocation, which episode was
filmed at which location andwhich which scene.
Even you know we.
Oh, do you remember when theywent down in the sewers here?
And, yeah, this is, it's howthey faked.
They faked a sewer drain aswell, because they didn't have
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sewer drains like that in the uk?
They faked a sewer drain aswell.
So things like that as well.
For me personally, it's notabout the cashing, it's not
about the munzee, it's moreabout getting outside and
enjoying learning about howthings are made on TV, on the
big screen too.
So, yeah, I really enjoyed thatone.
Ted Lasso, you haven't seen it.
You've got to see that one.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Josh, oh, I've seen the first season, but then my
Apple need to get.
I need to get back into itbecause I really do enjoy.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I did enjoy that show you did the 60 day free trial
exactly fair enough.
What are some of your fun ones,josh?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
yeah, so, uh, most of the the locations that I've
been to I've already talkedabout on the show, but I'm gonna
I'm gonna list a few that Ihaven't been to that I would
like to visit.
So, uh, the back of the futureshooting locations.
I have visited doc's, uh, doc'shouse.
I visited the the lone pinetwin pine mall.
So there's, those are twolocations I had visited.
(32:18):
However, there's lots of otherplaces around there that I
haven't visited.
I haven't visited marty's house.
I haven't visited um biff'sbiff's house, there are.
There's also a, uh, I believe,a school where you can walk in,
where they film the enchantmentunder the sea dance.
So these are all.
These are all in hollywood, andI would just, I would love to
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take a full tour of all the backthe future sites.
And then the other one is, uh,the karate kid which, um, you
know, you and I visited thatmural in, I think, encino,
california that's right but Iwould love to visit the
apartment.
I would love to.
There's lots of other placesI'd like to visit.
Uh, with the karate kid umbrownsville, oregon.
Have you seen the movie?
(32:59):
Stand by me with um.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yes, yeah, yeah.
With river With um.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
With River Phoenix and uh yes, the guy Wesley
Crusher.
I can't remember his name.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Was that found in Brownsville?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yes, Brownsville Oregon.
But Brownsville Oregon is thespot of the train scene where
they.
They're on that, that traintrestle, and they're worried
about crossing it, and then thetrain comes and they're running,
running, running.
I think there's a geocache herethere, because I watched a
geocaching video where at that,there was, of course, a geocache
in that spot.
So I'd love to visit that.
Um, I think you visited this, Ithink you visited this spot in
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forest gump yes, I did thisbeautiful place out in the
middle of nowhere in utah, wherehe's running across the country
and then he stops and he saysthe famous line I think I'll go
home now.
I'm a little bit tired.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
That's the one Mate.
I'm telling you.
That spot is absolutelystunning.
It is in Utah and it is astraight line going down.
You see the monoliths in thebackground.
There is a lot of parking areaoff to the side, on each side of
the road.
There is people all over theroad all the time.
So if you're just driving forthose, there's no one local that
drives past.
(34:15):
But still, you know people, justliterally.
You know what people like, josh, they don't care about some
other people, so they just wantto get the shot, and so they
just want to get the shot, andso they'll stand in the middle
of the road and they don't movefor the cars.
Even I'm like come on, people,just get your shot and go.
But you know, some people aredoing dances, some people are
doing trying to do the run-up,and then they do the stop and
they try and recreate, reenactthe entire scene.
And uh, of course, yeah, butall I did was I got a quick
(34:37):
photo, josh, and then I did atop and bottom photo.
So I did the.
The top of the photo was theactual from the film and then
the bottom was the photo that Itook.
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
But, yeah, it's a beautiful place, the Forrest
Gump one and Utah in general,just a beautiful state Again, a
little five-star.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
There's not much around there, there's no actual
caches, physical, but there's afive-star adventure lab there as
well.
Oh, there is A five-pointadventure lab.
Yeah, adventure life.
Yeah, did you do?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
it?
Did you do it?
Yes, I did.
Yeah.
Were they forest gump themed?
Yes, it was.
Yeah, yeah, it was good it was.
I need to go.
Okay, I'm jealous um on thesame um tom hanks train.
Let me stay on that.
Um.
Have you seen the moviecastaway please?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
yes, I've cast away.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Okay, of course so at the end of castle wet cast away
, he's at the, he's in themiddle of the country at a fort,
like there's an intersection inthe middle of the road in the
country.
Yeah, he's, and a woman comesby, or a post post woman or
something, yeah, and uh, he seesher, like he meets her,
whatever right there, and thenshe heads down the road and it's
(35:44):
kind of like he has it's like afork in the road where he has
to decide like where am I goingwith the rest of my life or
whatever.
And it's just this, in themiddle of nowhere, two country
roads that cross.
It could be anywhere, yeah, butthis is actual place in north
texas that you can visit andit's kind of like the the
crossroads um end of Castawaylocation.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
There you go.
I think that'd be a cool one tovisit.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
One more, oh sorry.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah, I was going to say it happens all the time,
josh.
In most 90% of these timesthere is a cache, a physical
cache location there, or a pinor something there to prove to
people like this is the spot youknow and it reminds people like
that's exactly where to go, andit reminds people that's
exactly where to go and again,that's another reason why we
love this game.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
One more, craig.
One more Because you broke therules.
You broke the rules, you wentto the UK.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
This is about the USA , but I'm going to break the
rules too.
I would love to go to Salzburg,austria, because that is one of
the main areas that theyrecorded the movie the Sound of
Music.
Yes, and Craig, I've beencloser there twice now.
You know what I talked about.
I took that sleep train.
(36:56):
I pretty much took that sleeptrain.
I slept right by it practically.
No, I know it was a night soyou wouldn't be able to sleep.
Yeah, I know I would have hadto stop and then get back on the
train.
Yeah, but in so, the sound ofmusic is an incredible.
It's classic movie, musical,julie anders.
And here's the thing that'sfunny about it, because I know
(37:17):
some people that have taken thesound of music tour.
Um, in austria.
It's mostly, uh, loved byamericans yeah, of course, of
course yeah, the austrians.
They don't care about aboutsound of music for the most part
, and so, um, there's actual bustours where you hop on a bus
and you know up on the screenthey're showing clips of the
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movie, and then you get out ofthe bus and you go visit that
spot and in between thedifferent movie locations it's a
sing-along.
People are singing along in thebus together, the sound of
music songs.
This is something I want to do.
I think that would just bebeautiful exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
You would need to take your time too, just because
I know you being you.
You enjoy filming yourselfreenacting.
Oh yes, you would have to bedancing, you would have to be
singing, you'd have to be thehills would definitely be, alive
.
If you were there, I'll giveyou the hot tea.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Oh, I just thought of another one and and this is my
this is probably my best videoon a movie location.
Is I actually reenacted all offerris bueller's day?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
off.
Yes, you did yes the wholething.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
And here's a fun fact I went to all the locations, uh
, uh, filming locations of themovie.
You know ferris bueller in themovie he does all these things
in one day.
Well, yeah, I found out thatyou cannot, you cannot possibly
do all these things in one day.
It took myself and tammy threedays three days to complete
ferris bueller's day off.
(38:45):
Wow, but um craig, please putthat video in the show notes.
I just watched it last nightbecause one of the locations was
the house from planes, trainsand automobiles, which I always
watch um during thanksgivingtime and uh, it's, it was edited
not by me.
You'll, you'll notice, you'relike, wow, the edit's really
good here.
It was edited by somebody elseand it wasn't even you, craig it
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was somebody else.
This is before bc, before craig, so yes, exactly, um, but yes
and it's so cool because thatmovie, ferris bueller's day off
is basically one of thecharacters of the movie is the
city of chicago.
You get a good sense thatthere's a sears tower, now the
willis tower, there's themuseums, there's wrigley field
um, it's, it's really.
(39:26):
I really enjoyed doing all ofthose locations perfect.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Perfect, we'll do, mate, we'll do.
Emily reached out to us as well, um, and she spoke about the uh
, the apps, etc.
Now, we spoke about this lastweek, in last week's or last
episode, I should say, and butshe also uses now get this.
She uses a thing, an app calledSpot Hero, and it's great for
reserving parking in large areas.
She used it, josh, she used itin DC to make parking a breeze.
(39:53):
So there you go, you've gotSpot Hero.
Check out Spot Hero.
She also uses Auto Slash andthat saved her money for car
rentals or hire cars.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Nice, there you go.
So our patrons are nowanswering questions for other
patrons.
I love our community that we'recreating here.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Exactly exactly, all right, mate.
Moving on, andy Zook and MelStowe both of these patrons as
well reached out and had anotherquestion in regards to cruise
ships.
Have we been on any cruiseships?
Now?
Andy took a European cruise andvisited eight, six countries,
finding caches at every singlestop.
What are your experiences?
(40:34):
Maybe reach out to DeniseCanavan?
We have to speak to DeniseCanavan, who runs Caching Cruise
Trips atgeocachingadventuresllccom, so
we might have to speak to herand see if we get her on the
show one time too.
Josh, yeah, that'd be greatCruising, josh, have you done it
?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I have not I want to, though I really really want to.
My wife took her first cruiselast year and now she's taking
another one this year becauseshe enjoyed it so much last year
and now she's taking anotherone this year because she
enjoyed it so much and she was.
She was skeptical about aboutcruising, but she really, really
enjoyed it, just because it'slike super stress-free, right.
(41:14):
Yeah, they just they give youeverything you need.
You can just relax and then,and then you know it's, it's a.
I think I I've never taken acruise, but I I what I've heard
is like there's this like senseof when you're on the ship,
everything's taken care of youVery relaxing, food, there's
lots of stuff to do, but thenthe adventure can begin on the
(41:36):
excursions, with geocaching, ofcourse.
Like Andy, six countries that'sso cool.
He got six souvenirs for that.
Exactly this is something Iwant to do, craig, I know that
you have done it.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yes, yes, I've only done it twice.
I've done it once years andyears ago, 20-plus years ago in
Australia, before my geocachingtime, and yeah, that was a
really nice cruise.
That was a very similar.
It's like the cruise you seefrom Florida cruises it was hot
weather, from Florida cruises,you know, it was hot weather, it
was nice seas, we did some hopoff on islands, you know, and we
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did some snorkeling, et cetera,around some islands.
So it was one of those type ofcruises.
But I've also done the Alaskacruise as well.
An Alaskan cruise, yes.
Now, this Alaskan cruise isabsolutely incredible.
First and foremost, though, youget into a dome roof train from
Anchorage all the way up toDenali.
So the dome roof train, josh,you can actually see outside and
(42:28):
you can see the non-existentwildlife.
We didn't see any bears, wedidn't see any moose, we didn't
see anything at all alltraveling up through Alaska, but
anyway, you get up to Denali,and we stayed in Denali
overnight as well and then youget the bus back down to
Whittier, and then it was 10nights cruising from Whittier to
Vancouver, and that stops inplaces called Skagway, junee and
(42:51):
Ketchikan as well.
Those places, the way you stopland tours incredible,
absolutely.
I did a photography tour at onestop.
I did like a food walking foodtour at another stop, where I
made this beautiful salmon roestuff, like oh it's delicious,
and then one of the other onesas well.
I think this was one.
Back in ketchikan they have theaxe man show, josh, now, after
(43:14):
seeing you throw an axe, becausethey asked they asked for
volunteers from the audience tojoin in in axe throwing too.
You would be ideal, you wouldwin that hands down, the little
axe show that they do, but theydo a full axe show as well, and
they teach you about back in theday, when there used to
literally be a lot more loggingpeople and a lot of axe men
around, and how they used to log.
And then they play thedifferent logging games et
(43:37):
cetera as well, and you sit onone side, you go for Team Red or
team blue or blah blah.
So it's a lot of fun, a lot offun.
So alaskan cruises.
So there you go yeah, was that?
Speaker 1 (43:47):
that wasn't a geocaching cruise, that was just
like a regular cruise for youregular cruise.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Yeah, regular cruise, although, although, although,
yes, some places there, when yougo through, like glacier bay,
because you, you actually go upto glacier bay and as you go up
the bay itself, in into thissort of like a dead-end area,
it's literally just all water.
There's not one, but twoglaciers, josh, one coming down
one side, one coming down theother side.
The boat stops because it can'tgo any further, and then the
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boat 360, around and around andaround, really, really slow, so
you can literally just stay onyour own deck and you'll see one
glacier, then you'll see thenext glacier and it just goes
around like a 360 degree view.
So you can just sit there inthe boat where you are.
You don't have to go from oneside of the boat to the other,
um, and it just shows you aroundand, of course, there's not one
(44:35):
but two earth caches there, see.
So so, yeah, there is, there isearth caches along all the
glaciers and stuff as well.
So it wasn't a geocaching trip,but did I get geocaches while I
was on the trip?
Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
I've heard that on these Alaskan cruises that
people can essentially do earthcaches from a hot tub.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
Yes, yes, you can.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Be on a deck in a hot tub passing glaciers.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Literally from one extreme to another.
You're doing a glacier earthcache from the hot tub of a pool
.
So yeah, it's really reallynice.
So you know this.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
This brings up a very interesting question that I
have for the patrons or anybodythat's listening to this.
Yeah, this is something that Iwant to do.
It's on my bucket list.
My wife is taking cruises withher friends.
I want to take a cruise with myfriend see my shell.
So I'm wondering.
I think maybe we should contactdenise canavan.
(45:32):
I think so and I would you beinterested, listeners, in a
treasures of our town sponsoredtrip where you would go with us
on a geocaching trip?
Because, um, I've heard ofDenise before.
She literally plans these.
You're joining a cruise shipwith other cruisers.
Obviously, you're not going tofill a whole boat full of
(45:54):
geocachers.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
But she plans it, and she plans it around the places,
the excursions that geocacherswould want to visit, and so I'm
just curious, we should, maybe,craig, look into this.
Uh, and because I, I would, Iwould love just to take a cruise
, just you and I doing this, butbut maybe, maybe we could bring
some listeners along with us, adozen, ten if that's something
(46:18):
that you would be interested in,if you'd be interested in
hanging out with us.
You'd be hanging out with us forI don't know a week or so, and
you know what would be reallyfun if we did something like
that.
We could, we could actually doa live show as a part of the
cruise on the cruise ship and wecould have.
You know, even if it's justlike five I mean, I'm dreaming
small okay five people otherthan us, seven, I think.
(46:40):
I think maybe 12 would be great, because it's like the 12
disciples, that's a good number.
But, craig, do you think thiswould be something that could
happen?
Speaker 2 (46:51):
100%, 100%, absolutely can happen.
I mean, if you think about it,if our good friend Scott Burks
over at the Geocaching Podcastcan organize a turkey trip
during Thanksgiving, goingacross the ET Highway, then we
can organize this.
Josh, Surely, surely.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
It'll be a little bit more expensive, probably than
the ET Highway, but there areprobably other geocachers like
us that have wanted to do it,and I just think doing it with
other people.
And here's the cool thing.
I'm sure there'll be partswhere we will meet all together
and socialize, but then there'sa lot of parts of cruises that
you can just do things on yourown too, so you wouldn't
(47:27):
necessarily be stuck with us thewhole time.
No, no, no, although we'repretty fun to travel with I mean
, after all, we have a travelpodcast.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
This is true, this is true.
And if you don't believe us,you can just ask our good friend
Tim as well.
Minnesota Boy, he'll be able tovouch for us.
So there you go, so.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Craig, I'm thinking something.
I have been to Alaska so Idon't know if I want to do that
again, I'm thinking somethingtropical, I'm thinking something
warm, I'm thinking maybeBahamas type, you know, one of
those where you can hit severalislands.
Yes, yes, yes and um, you know,I'm from minnesota, I want to
get somewhere warm, so exactly,I'd be open to other things.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
So we, we're going to talk, we're going to talk to
denise, we'll talk, we're goingto talk to keep keep you all
posted and obviously you'regoing to get her on the show as
well after we've organizedthings too, so that's absolutely
that's a hundred percent tick.
So from there.
Meanwhile, just we've got alsothe happy ho dag christopher,
yes, um he.
Now this is geocaching.
Back to geocaching.
He said what is your favoriteor most memorable place you've
discovered because of geocaching?
(48:29):
So that was a good.
I think this is a good question.
It raises the point because wealways say you know, one of our
favorite things about geocachingis the places it takes you, the
locations.
He's asking you what's yourfavorite?
So there you go you what's yourfavorite.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
So there you go.
Well, that's interestingbecause, um, I really tried to
think about this question fromtwo angles.
Number one I mean I'vediscovered a lot of places
through geocaching, yeah, butI'm wondering, I was, I answered
this like an area that Iwouldn't have gone and I almost
discovered like by accident yeahbecause something geo-related
was there.
So I know the happy hoedag.
He's from Wisconsin.
So Waukesha, Wisconsin.
(49:07):
I was just doing some cachesright before the West Bend Cache
Bash and I was in Waukeshabecause there were some highly
favorited caches there and I hadsome time to kill and I noticed
there was an adventure lab.
And I discovered it was anadventure lab about Les Paul.
Do you know who Les Paul is?
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Les Paul no.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
He is the inventor of Les Paul, the famous Les Paul
guitars.
Oh, okay, it's a very famousguitar.
Well, waukesha, I found out, isactually his hometown.
So it was a five stages.
It took me through this lovelylittle town of Waukesha, um, and
of just kind of through hislife.
I I would have no idea aboutthis town and there was like a
(49:51):
festival happening when I wasthere.
It was like it was a big partyand um, it was just, yeah,
surprising, um, and I would nothave discovered this little town
and I wouldn't discover thatthis was like the less paul, the
home of less paul, the famousless paul guitars.
So that was one that came tomind that I've never, and also
I'm trying to focus on things Ihaven't really talked about on
this podcast yes, how about you?
Speaker 2 (50:12):
uh, me personally.
It's one location that isthermopolis, in wyoming, a
little town in wyoming, in themiddle of literally the middle
of wyoming, um is a place called.
Now, I was there because ofgeocaching and I was there
because a good friend of ours aswell, smilemakers Dave at the
time he lived in Thermopolis andso I was meeting up with him
(50:34):
and also, obviously, geocachingat the time too.
So that's the reason whygeocaching brought me to
Thermopolis.
I wouldn't have gone thereotherwise.
Now, this place for me mepersonally it's all about that
home, that small little hometownfeel, but at the same time
you've got the open space ofwyoming.
You see, there's there's notthat many people there josh like
in terms of the actual townnumbers themselves.
Now also, I love hot spring.
(50:56):
You know me.
I love a good bath.
You know me in my absolute.
I love a good soak.
I could soak josh for two orthree hours in a bath Easily.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Turn into a prune.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Speaking of which, I'll be doing that after we
record.
But anyway, getting back ontrack, and that is the hot.
There's Hot Springs State Parkis there, whereby you can
literally have your dip in andout and everything else as well.
But I've also now I've got anearth cache there too, josh.
Nice, because I've got an earthcache there too, josh, because
I loved it that much, you see.
So I've now got an earth cachethere.
The earth cache talks about theminerals that form through
(51:27):
these spouts of the undergroundtunnels.
There's the Wind River Canyonthere, josh.
Now the Wind River Canyonliterally was a canyon that was
developed from Wind End River,so erosion was a canyon that was
developed from Wind End River,so erosion.
When I first got there, it wasgoing on dusk and Smile Makers
(51:48):
was there.
I was there with him andanother guy as well, and he said
look at your app, craig.
And I looked around and went oh, there's an FTF up here.
He goes yes, there is.
He placed it there, you see,just for us.
But, josh, it was afour-and-a-half terrain, just
for us.
But, josh, it was afour-and-a-half terrain.
We had to scale halfway up theactual embedded cliff face with
(52:10):
no ropes or anything at all atdusk in order to get the ammo
can.
So, again, that was one ofthose things, josh, that will
always in my mind, stick with methroughout my entire life.
Hopefully, you know what I mean.
It's one of those experiencesthat you have in life whereby
you just I remember that thatwas a good time, that was a
great time.
So, yeah, that's mine, josh'sthe demopolis in Wyoming.
(52:31):
Do you have any more?
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Yeah.
Another one that came to mindwas in Minnesota.
We have a city calledAlexandria, minnesota, and I
knew about the town, alexandria,but I had not really spent much
time there.
And there's a you know how Ilove the big things right
there's a big statue of theworld's largest Viking, big Oli.
So I was like I gotta visit BigOli because it's a virtual, so
(52:54):
I visit Big Oli.
And then I realized thatthere's a museum next to Big Oli
and the museum is about thisyears ago, like the 1900s, some
farmer unearthed this old relicand this old relic had Viking
writings on it in the middle ofMinnesota Vikings, okay.
(53:22):
And they were like these werevikings writings.
And and they were like, oh mygosh, vikings visited minnesota
before, even, yeah, beforeanything like well, like we're
talking, I think like like eight, the eight hundreds or
something like that, before anypart of the british yeah, yeah,
and the the theory is now it'scontested because they think it
(53:45):
might be a hoax.
Oh right, it's still contested.
Yeah, um, because they'vecarbon dated it and all it goes
all back and forth anyway.
But it showed this museum wasall about that.
That fame, this thing that aguy found in a field in the
middle of minnesota and they the, is that the Vikings went
through the Great Lakes andfollowed the rivers all the way
(54:07):
to this spot in the middle ofMinnesota and for some reason,
some of them visited there,stopped there and let's do our
mark.
Yeah, fascinating history or, Idon't know, could have been fake
news from the 800s.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
Either way, it's good to know.
It's good to know.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Yeah, but it was fascinating.
You know I love my museums, andjust learning about the fact
that the Vikings were hereprobably before any of us were
here, it was fascinating.
Alexandria, minnesota,beautiful little town.
Speaker 2 (54:38):
There you go.
Do you have any more, or can wemove on Because we've got one
last?
Speaker 1 (54:41):
let's move on let's move on.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
Let's move on.
Last and but definitely notleast, jamie, the motor rimba
man.
He's, uh, he's, he's repliedagain.
He's asking, and I thought Ithought we'll leave this one
because it's a good one, it's aquick one.
He says any crazy challenge,geocaches that you've done or
you haven't done but would liketo, that require traveling of
some sort.
Uh, for instance, he completedthe nine state challenge, gc4,
(55:07):
pzck, where you must visit ninedifferent states in 24 hours,
nine states in 24 hours and findat least one cache in each
state.
At the same time, josh, he didthe 24 hour challenge, which is
gc3dy2a, which requires at leastone cache every hour for 24
hours oh, I wonder how many napshe took.
(55:31):
I know, I know I mean, look,let's be honest, a lot of these
geocaching is different.
This is where geocaching isdifferent to munzee is because
it is more reliant upon, on asystem you know, um, you don't
have, whereas munzee, youliterally have to be in that
location at that time to cap itand that it's logged at that
time and location, whereas, uh,yeah, the geocaching is more on
(55:54):
a system, wise.
But have you done anything likethat, josh, in terms of, like,
traveling, uh, challenge cash?
Speaker 1 (55:59):
sorts.
So I'll just say I'm not a bigum challenge casher oh yeah, I'm
just not, because a lot, of, alot of them involve like numbers
and you know I'm not a bignumbers guy.
Speaker 2 (56:13):
Yeah, however, unless the numbers, unless the numbers
are favorite point numbers,then you're a big number.
Speaker 1 (56:17):
This is true, or souvenir or souvenir numbers,
souvenirs collected yes, that'simportant to me.
Um, we all have our things welove.
Anyway, I started geocaching in2008, so around 2009, there was
a uh, a challenge of 100 caches.
Now this isn't going to soundcraig, this is not going to
sound like very difficult, butin 2009 yeah, 2009.
(56:42):
This was very challenging 15 100geocaches yeah, 100 geocaches
in three states in 24 hours.
This is the challenge of that.
The first time I attempted it.
So I tried minnesota, wisconsin, iowa.
The first time we attemptedthis, we failed.
How could you?
Speaker 2 (56:57):
fail how?
Speaker 1 (56:59):
because we didn't, we ran out of time.
Oh, we found a lot of caches inthe Minnesota area.
We strapped bikes to the back,you got to remember.
I didn't even have any powertrails, so we were just finding
random parks that had like fivecaches each and then, once we
hit like 75 caches, we boltedfor Wisconsin, found like one or
(57:22):
two wisconsin, and then we hadto bolt to iowa.
So you know this challenge thatjamie is talking about nine
state challenge in 24 hours likethat.
That's way easier on the westcoast yeah, I'm sorry, the east
coast, east coast than it is inthe midwest.
So I I failed this challenge.
I failed this challenge and wedidn't get 100.
(57:43):
So I did it again, like acouple of years later, and we
completed it.
Speaker 2 (57:48):
Well, I mean on the East, josh, you could literally
do New Jersey, Delaware, westVirginia, that sort of.
You can do that in an hour.
You know you can do four inPennsylvania you can do
Pennsylvania, delaware and.
New Jersey, literally in fiveminutes, to be honest, with you,
right, right, right on thecorner of it.
So there you go, mine, josh,mine was back in Australia.
Mine is GC6VF7W.
(58:11):
I had to look it up.
It is now archived because theowners have moved, but it's
called the Australia All OverChallenge.
Now, when this first came out,it was basically find one cache
in every single state orterritory of australia and
there's eight and australia'sthe same size as the us, but
find one cache in every singlestate and territory in one
calendar year.
(58:31):
When it first came out, thereviewer didn't realize at the
time and people complainedwhatever some you know as they
do, uh, and apparently it wasn'tallowed to be a time constraint
on it, so they couldn't do itone year.
so they've changed it up andthey said um, like you know
every state and territory inaustralia.
But what they did, josh, forthose of us who want that
(58:53):
challenge, still that in onecalendar year challenge they
actually did like an honor rollon the cash page.
So if you did it and youqualified in that one calendar
year, you got got on that honorroll.
Josh, I am on that honor roll.
I'll just say, yes, now there's24 people on that honor roll in
five years.
So that's how quite difficultit is too.
So only 24 cashers in fiveyears.
(59:14):
That that was out or on thathonor roll.
That's got to be tough.
So there you go, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (59:20):
I have an idea for a challenge.
Cash you ready for it?
Yeah, so there's a virtualcache in Key West.
There's that big marker.
Speaker 2 (59:32):
Have you been down to Key West, the big marker, which
is the most southern?
I haven't been yet, but I'veseen several photos and videos.
Speaker 1 (59:35):
Yeah, so there's a marker that marks this most
southern spot of the contiguous,the contiguous, the 48 states?
Yeah, because I believe, Ibelieve hawaii is actually
farther south than that, um, anduh, obviously alaska is farther
north, um, and so there's amarker there.
It's been a virtual that's beenthere for a long time.
(59:56):
Well recently now, there is nowa virtual um that is marking
the most northern spot in thecontiguous 48 states.
And it's interesting, craig,because the markers look they're
twins.
The twin markers.
They look the same.
I think they're a littledifferent colors, but they look
the same.
Yeah, so somebody hit a virtualthere.
(01:00:18):
All right, this is a challengefor our listeners.
Wouldn't it be cool to have achallenge where you have to find
that most southern one and themost northern one and then
somebody puts a challenge cachethat is directly in between the
two of them, right?
in the middle, like the halfwaypoint between them.
Wouldn't that be a good ideafor a challenge?
Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Absolutely, and do it in 24 hours.
You have to do that in 24 hours.
Find in in 24 hours.
You have to do that in 24 hours.
Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
I'm both in 24 hours you could do it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
You probably have to fly oh yeah, you'd have to fly,
absolutely have to fly.
No, no, you couldn't do it witha time frame anymore now, so
you can't do things with timeframes like that, unfortunately,
anymore but yeah, I think thatwould be a uh interesting
challenge yes, but right in themiddle makes sense.
Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Yeah, any of you out there.
It might exist already, but anyof you out there, um, you can
steal the idea, make it happen.
Make it happen.
Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
You could only you could only make it happen if you
lived directly in the middle ofbetween the two.
That's the only time you couldactually do it.
Because you have to, becauseyou have to maintain the cash
josh you can't live too far awayfrom where you hide a cache.
Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Or find something that lives close to it.
Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Find a farmer of some sort.
Can we hide this ammo?
Can in your field, please, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
It's probably in the middle of, like the Appalachian
Mountains or something.
Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Exactly.
We're going to have to look.
We're going to look after thisepisode.
We'll give you that.
Meanwhile, josh, we're going toend it there.
That was our last question.
So that was good, did you enjoy?
Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
this Patreon?
Yeah, I enjoyed the beautifulsmell, the beautiful potpourri
of questions.
Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Potpourri, exactly Meanwhile, josh.
We are always looking forquestions.
We're looking for thought ideasin terms of shows etc.
How can people reach out to usif they've got an idea for a
show or a thought process oreven just a normal question?
Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Yeah, they can reach out to us at
treasuresovertownpodcasts atgmailcom.
You can reach out to us there,or you can follow us on Facebook
, instagram, x or YouTube, soyou can reach out to us in any
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Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
Exactly, or, josh, if they want to be like inside,
inside the loop, the innercircle, as scott burke's likes
to say, how can they become oneof our patrons as well?
Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
yes, um, this podcast is completely patron supported,
so we really appreciate all thesupport of our patrons.
So if you're interested injoining us, um, and maybe don't
know, maybe you get innerdetails about our future cruise.
Yeah, you might know about ourcruise.
You might be able to sign upfor our cruise before anybody
(01:02:51):
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I'm totally just making stuffup right now I don't know, but
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So you can consider followingus or supporting us at
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Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
So that's our show for today.
Please subscribe, rate andreview on your favorite
podcasting app.
Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
And again, josh, as always may your travels always
lead you to the most unexpectedand amazing hidden gems around
the world.
See you next time, everybody,stay warm, stay warm, bye.
She didn't get it in I know, Iknow you didn't even give me a
(01:03:43):
hint during the podcast youwatched planes, trains and
automobiles last night onthanksgiving, you shared it.
Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
You shared it, josh, with your, your fans, etc.
On instagram stories, Ireshared it on uh, on treasures
of our town.
Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
He didn't get it in, but guess what it is in, because
you're gonna put this segmentin the podcast.
Will you do that for us?
Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
I'll do that.
I'll not do it for.
I'll do it for you, josh, I'lldo it for you.
So if you're still listening tothis, then you're one of the
very few that listened to theepisode all the way through yeah
, and you know, you know I'mproud of my town, craig's proud
of his town, because you knowwhat?
Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
that's a rare thing these days.
It's a damn rare things thesedays thanks for listening, guys.
Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
You did bye.
What the listeners at home don't realize is that
Craig just made an edit righthere because I had too much Dr
Pepper and I had to pay.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That's going to start the show.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Do you love to travel ?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Do you love road trips?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Do you love finding hidden treasures in towns all
over the USA?
Hi, I'm Joshua.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I'm Craig.
Welcome to Treasures of OurTown.
It's the podcast that exploresunique and charming towns
scattered throughout the UnitedStates.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Guided by our love for location-based games like
geocaching, join us as weventure into some of the
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
On today's episode.
Josh, this is part two, parttwo of Potpourri, potpourri,
whatever you want to say of allour patrons, all our patrons,
Josh.
They reached out to us again.
They enjoyed it and we have tofinish.
Yes, we have to finish what westarted with.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yes, you know, Potpourri is such a delicious
smell and this is hopefully justa wonderful sweetness to your
ears as you listen to ourpotpourri of questions from the
patrons.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yes, exactly right, exactly right.
And before we get to that,though, josh, again, as always,
delays and upgrades.
Mate, do you want to start withthat, or?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You know, craig, yes, I will start.
And you know, on this I willstart.
And you know, on this podcastwe don't talk about the weather,
but I'm going to.
I'm going to because it'sconnected to my delay, uh, this
evening as of the recording ofthis.
We're down, we're now indecember, right?
Yes, and yeah here in the northwe're in the teens Fahrenheit
(01:45):
oh oh, oh.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Is that what you meant by teens last night?
Oh, I thought you meant, as inteenagers were invading your
house.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, that happened too.
That actually happened too.
My nephew and my niece werehere, yeah, but that's not a
delay.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I always enjoy it when they visit.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
But no, we're in the teens.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
As far as temperature , it's getting cold here in
minnesota, which has me itchingalready to get out of here yes,
yes, yes, just get out of herehead south head exactly, exactly
, fly south in the winter, um,but meanwhile, josh, though as
well see, a lot of people don'tunderstand, but in australia we
have, you know, there's fourseasons every year.
Well, that's divided up into inAustralia, it's divided up into
(02:27):
three months, you see.
So the 1st of December is the1st of summer in Australia.
You see so we don't do theequinox thing like you guys do
here.
It kind of makes sense what youdo here in regards to the
equinox and how your systems arein place, whereas in Australia
it's three months.
Three months, the first ofevery month, the first of that
month, the first of the month.
So that's how it works.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That makes a lot of sense.
Which crazy is, it's not evenwinter here.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
No, I know, that's what I mean.
That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
December 22nd, so it's not even winter, and I'm
already wanting to get out ofthis state.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And it's already summer in Australia, exactly
right.
So there you go.
What's it going to be like foryou in January, mate?
It's going to be bad.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
We certainly have to escape, and I know you have some
adventures ahead of you, I'msure, and so do I, and that's
actually part of my upgrade, soI'm going to roll right into my
upgrade.
Yeah, what's your upgrade?
This is actually an upgradeslash announcement for both you
(03:28):
and I.
Yes, it is, it is official.
We will be going to the texaschallenge mega event slash block
party event.
Yeah, on the week weekend ofmarch 15th and 16th.
We'll actually be there betweenthe 13th and the 16th, but, um,
this is the oldest mega ever.
Like.
This is the oldest mega.
Like this is the first mega.
(03:50):
The first mega that ever wascreated was in texas, and so
this is the big, like 25thanniversary celebration, the
23rd time they've done the texaschallenge, and I'm excited
because it's in a little towncalled Floresville.
Floresville, texas.
It is 45 minutes outside of SanAntonio, which we have talked
about on this podcast.
(04:11):
I love visiting San Antonio,but Floresville is a nice town
of 8,000 people.
That's like, that's perfect.
Like there are going to be somany hidden treasures there that
we're going to uncover anddiscover, uncover, uncover
Exactly many hidden treasuresthere that we're gonna uncover
on earth and discover, uncover,uncover, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Meanwhile, if we're both going to be there, that
means we're going to do likesome sort of you know video, etc
and maybe even a podcast or two, uh episode on too.
So keep your eyes and ears outfor that one.
Um and josh, I've already gotan idea for the actual.
You know the edit of the videotoo.
Oh, we might just you know.
You know the tv show, I'll giveit away.
You know the tv show likestorage wars, that sort of show
(04:49):
yes, I know that show.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
What about?
What about cash?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
wars where, because it's a challenge, you see you
think about it, I can get.
I can get, like you know, fiveor six different people who are
doing the challenge individually, and if I can get some footage
of them and if I can get someinterviews with them as well, I
can then do the edit.
Josh, that's like storage warsbut cache wars, and then you
don't find out the actual totalwinner until the very end of the
show.
So that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I like that idea.
We're going to have to getthese five people.
We're going to have to let themshare their location on their
phone so we can chase them down.
So they'll be hunting forcaches and we'll be hunting for
them and I'll be this kind oflike the host.
Yes, yes, and I will.
Uh, we'll feature floresville,the, the city, and we'll feature
(05:34):
the event and yes, of course,we will do a podcast as well.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
But anyway, this is sort of my.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I know you have other southern travels, uh, ahead of
you, but but for me this isgoing to be probably my first
chance to get out of Minnesotaand I'm very excited about it,
and so thank you.
All the folks that are planningTexas Challenge, take a look at
the webpage for Texas Challenge.
I wish I had the.
I don't have the GC number.
We'll put it in the show notes,yeah, but they have a great
(06:01):
week of events planned as theycelebrate the big 23rd slash,
25th anniversary of geocaching.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Exactly right, exactly right.
Yeah, I'll be already downthere.
I'll be amongst it anyway, josh.
So, yeah, I like the warmth, Ilike the warmth.
So, meanwhile, my upgrade.
I'll start with my upgradefirst, and that is Thanksgiving.
Happened between the lastcouple of episodes and you know
what?
It was my third one.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, andwhy not let Thanksgiving be an
(06:29):
upgrade for everyone out there?
That's what I'll say.
Spending time with familyfriends, eating some good food,
cooking some good food.
I'm the cook, josh, so I cooksome good food, along with my
mother-in-law as well, sohelping her out in the kitchen.
It was great times to had andum, and just even after, after
you have that big lunch,watching like two or three
people just literally doze offon the couch.
(06:51):
That's great.
You know your job's done.
When that happens, you knowthat whole calmness.
There's no stress.
You know we need more of thatin everyone's lives.
I think so, yeah, so that wasmy upgrade, just thanks.
Thanksgiving in general.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Craig, so you don't have Thanksgiving, obviously in
Australia.
No, like what do you you know,you've experienced a lot of our
holidays Like what do you thinkof Thanksgiving?
Do you think it's like, yeah,this is a, this is a good
holiday?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I mean, I think it's, it's a it good holiday, for
what a holiday is, and that isjust to literally take time out.
Stop, stop, think, be thankfuland enjoy.
You know what you actually havearound you family and friends
and food.
You know what I mean.
And because, let's be honest,josh, because there's some
people out there who don't haveany of that sort of stuff too.
(07:37):
So, um, for those that don't,you know, try and work on some
sort of way in order to makethat occur, make some
connections, you know, seek outsome help and seek out some
people.
So, for me, thanksgiving isvery much a deep, deep thought
process of a holiday, as opposedto, like you know, halloween or
(07:57):
Christmas or Easter, any ofthose other types.
For me, thanksgiving isdifferent again, and that's only
what I've learned in the lastthree years.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I really appreciate Thanksgiving because,
as far as American holidaysgoes, it doesn't have as much
pressure around it If you thinkabout it.
A lot of our other holidaysthere's a lot of pressure around
it, and this is just about,yeah, like you said, enjoying a
meal.
I mean, gratitude is all apositive thing.
Gratitude is very important inour lives.
So, yeah, I am a big fan ofThanksgiving as well, very
(08:25):
important in our lives.
So, yeah, I am a big fan ofThanksgiving as well, and so
it's really challenging for meto consider skipping it next
year as I'm officially invitedto Las Vegas by the Geocaching
Podcast because they're going todo the ET Highway on
Thanksgiving.
So that's tough.
It's tough to say to my familyyou know what?
(08:47):
I'm gonna go hang out in thedesert, uh, during thanksgiving
and not be with you.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But we'll see what happens that's the reason why I
always say it's it's good toreflect and be thankful for
family and friends, you see soyou know, you can family and
friends.
That's the friends.
Next year it could be thefriends component as opposed to
the family component that it wasthis year.
So I'm only putting littletwigs on the fire, josh.
That's all.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm doing, I hear it.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Meanwhile, my delay, josh, is that I'm starting to
strip down my car.
When I say strip it down, Imean strip it of all the extra
things that I've put in it, likefor the camper van sort of
style.
Um, so I'm taking off the theroof mount stuff, I'm taking out
the electricity, I'm taking outall that because I'm going to
sell it next week to more of adealer sort of thing.
So it's a less of a price, butyou know, um, it is what it is.
(09:35):
You know, um, it is what it is.
So it's easy way to get rid ofit done and I'm not actually
putting any hassle on anyoneelse if any other issues occur
with it too.
So I'd hate to sell it tosomeone, josh, and then then
then buy it then then have allhassles too.
So I'd rather just go through adealer and let the dealer sort
it out.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, let them deal with it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Exactly yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And they, yeah, they know, they know what they're
getting.
And you know dealerships too.
They have.
You know, dealerships too.
They have resources.
Like most dealerships have amechanic shop in there, so they
can fix it for so much more thanany individual would do Exactly
.
So that's a delay.
But you know what?
I think it's also kind of alittle bit of an upgrade,
(10:17):
because you're going to finallyget that thing off your hands.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Exactly right.
Exactly right, and that's justbefore next week.
I will fly out to Arizona topick up the new van.
The new van's already got aname and everything Josh, her
name, it's a her.
This one, her name's Tuesday.
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I'm so excited for you.
That's really amazing.
Yes, yes, the journey begins.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
All right, josh, do you want to get a start on this?
Do you want to discuss aboutwhat potpourri is again, or you
want, yes, yes, potpourri again?
We will.
We will define it for you.
The dictionary says potpourriis a mixture of dried petals and
spices placed in a bowl or asmall sack to perfume clothing
or in a room.
So today we hope to perfumeyour ears with the beautiful
sounds of answering thequestions from our patrons.
We did this on the last episodeand we're going to continue now
.
It's just a variety.
(11:13):
It's a mishmash of questionstravel related, and it bleeds
into geocaching, which, ofcourse, is also what this
podcast is about, and we knowthat we, according to Good Pods,
we are the number onegeocaching podcast in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
This year, exactly right.
So thank you very much to GoodPods for their support.
All right, josh, I'm going toget into the first one, and the
first one for this episode isfrom Alison Burtman, and she
goes straight into thegeocaching.
She wants to go straight intothe caches.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
She says what about getting some talk about West
Virginia, tim's geocaches andalso Geo Woodstock for 2025.
So yeah, geo Woodstock nextyear as well.
Have you done any of the gadgetcaches themselves?
And also, what about WestVirginia's oldest, because you
have to do that via atvs to getthere, the alternative that
(12:08):
sounds that sounds like a lot offun actually.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So the questions around west virginia tim.
So if you're not a geocacherwhich there's probably a few of
them out there west virginia timis a very prolific geocache
hider.
He's hidden many geocaches inMartinsville, west Virginia, and
there's some of the bestgeocaches out there Certainly
(12:32):
one of the best series ofgeocaches out there, because
they are gadget caches, which,if you don't know what a gadget
cache, it's a cache that is easyto find, but there's a little
trick to get into it.
There's a little puzzle, alittle field puzzle, to get into
it.
There's a little puzzle, alittle field puzzle, to get into
it, and so there are several inthe West Virginia area.
And because Geo Woodstock thisMay is happening in West
(12:52):
Virginia, allison is asking isthis worth it?
Should we take some time tofind West Virginia's Tim's
geocaches?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Because they are about an hour and a half away
from the actual geo woodstockitself as well.
So I mean you can either a gothere, you know, before or after
geo woodstock itself.
I always say I'm an advocatefor geo woodstock in terms of
the actual day, the saturday,which geo would rule out
anything, don't go anywhere.
Go to the geo woodstock andthat's it.
You know, stay on site.
You know, listen to our podcast.
(13:24):
It's going to be recorded liveon air et cetera, stuff like
that too.
So you know there's plenty to doon site and I suggest people
always stay on site as much asthey can for Geo Woodstock
itself.
But the days leading up to it,josh, you can get like a taste,
a flavor taste of geocaching etcetera as you go through West
Virginia and do West Virginiateams caches.
I always do this anyway,normally, and so do you.
(13:46):
I learned from you actually,and that is sort by favorite
points, josh, put a minimum.
Put a minimum on your list of,say, literally, if you're in
West Virginia, 100 favoritepoints is a minimum and you will
still get a good chunk ofcaches.
Just saying, because some ofthese gadgets, josh, they take a
long time to do.
Yeah they take a long time to dowhen you take a bit, they take
(14:07):
a bit, yeah, yeah, have you donea few of these at all?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
yeah, I've done a handful of west virginia tim's
caches.
I haven't done all of them.
I actually just looked at the.
There's actually a geo tour.
There's actually an officialgeo tour that is connected with
all, uh, several of westvirginia tim's caches.
But the one of the things aboutwest virginia tim's caches, but
the one of the things about westvirginia tim's caches, is that
they're really well done,they're they're well maintained
(14:31):
and they're sturdy and they'rewell built.
I have never, uh, done a westvirginia tim cache and thought,
boy, this one is really, youknow, going downhill.
He does such a great job, greatjob making them constructed so
well.
Yes, and what I really loveabout them is that you, as you
do several of them, you kind ofget into the mind of Tim, yes,
(14:54):
and as you do them, they almostkind of get easier, because Tim
is very much thinks outside thebox and so, but there's, he has
a style, and you're like, okay,I am now in the mind of west
virginia, tim, and that is areally fun and beautiful,
beautiful place to be.
Um, so, yes, I, I enjoyed them.
Um, they're the variety, likethere's no cash, that is the
(15:17):
same, while, while they havelike a similar, like you know,
as far as like style of how theyare created like sturdy and
they're all like a similar.
Like you know, as far as likestyle of how they are created
like sturdy and they're all likea little bit different, which
is really really a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Have you done them?
Yes, yeah, I've done quite afew of them as well.
I did them when I first cameover here for a whole day myself
and great caches Danny andDanny took me out and we did a
whole heap of West VirginiaTimms caches that they loved and
and we did a whole heap of WestVirginia Tim's caches that they
loved and so it was good for mebecause they were on site with
me so if I did actually need ahand or a hint in a direction
(15:50):
that they could show me, so Inever got frustrated with them,
you see.
So some of them can be a littlebit daunting.
You have to read a lot, youhave to sort of get in there.
But in saying that as well, Ifind where he's placed them, a
lot of the people, like in termsof the so-called muggles, know
already about them.
They know about geocaching andsome of them are around
businesses.
Then businesses have actuallyallowed to have it out there and
(16:12):
they're proud to actually havethe geocache in their parking
lot or whatever and they takecare of that cache as well.
So I mean, I think one of myfun fine ones was it was a
really nice constructed, uh likelike letterbox sort of style um
birdhouse, and it was in theexact shape and color and
everything as the bank in whichit was.
In the parking lot of the bank,it had the bank's handwriting
(16:35):
on the front.
It had the stickers of the bankaround it as well, so it was
decorated as the bank.
So it's like a mini bank.
But what you had to do for thisone, josh, is you had, you had
these two little prongs thatcome out the side and you had to
attach your battery to your carto these and if you attach them
the correct way, the aerialcomes up from the chimney area
and out pops the little um, thelittle log book you see from the
(16:57):
top, and then you swap themover and it goes back down.
So just simple.
Things like that sometimes arefantastic.
So yeah, I've.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I've done that one as well.
I actually have a video of thatone.
That's fantastic and you'reright, there's like a.
I remember there's another oneand they're all birdhouses,
usually because he just feelslike that's a great way to
disguise a geocache.
And one was like at a statefarm insurance place and again
he painted the birdhouse to looklike a state farm.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Like a good neighbor, exactly, exactly.
But while you're there as well,and you're doing those caches,
don't forget with Geo Woodstock,there's the cache across
America.
One, josh, right around thecorner from Geo Woodstock as
well.
Oh, really, in Borgentown.
Yes, have you done that one atall?
I?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
have not.
No, but I haven't done that one.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It is a beautiful I've got a video of that one,
Josh.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yes, I have a video of that one.
We'll put them in the shownotes.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Finally, I can say it .
I can actually say I've got avideo rather than just you.
Yeah, no, the West VirginiaCash Across America is an
absolutely stunning walk.
It is a bit of a walk, get somelength there to it, but where
you end up, you don't just endup with this humongous like a
larger-than-life ammo can Likeit is a big ammo can sort of
size but you end up on thisoutcropping and overlooking this
(18:11):
beautiful canyon Because theysay West Virginia it's the
mountains and the valleys.
And, yeah, you end up on top ofthis mountain overlooking this
beautiful valley, and it's justabsolutely stunning.
So don't forget the cash acrossAmerica, west Virginia, while
you're there, and justabsolutely stunning.
(18:32):
So don't forget the cash acrossamerica, west virginia, while
you're there.
And then they talk about, aswell as I spoke about, the
oldest in west virginia and thatone there is in regards to the
atv rides.
Now, I do believe the people whoare running geo woodstock are
organizing, josh, they'reorganizing for those people who
want to do it to be able to hirethese all-terrain vehicles from
a particular location and aplace, and even if you can't
drive one, you can be driven byone there as well, or team up
(18:53):
with other people.
So go on and check theirwebsite.
Again, links in the description.
But geowoodstockxxicom is theirwebsite.
Make sure you go and check outtheir website and all the
details are on their website.
And don't forget as well, makesure you click your will attend
because this is going to be ahuge, huge event.
Not many more people need to beon the log now, josh to either.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Before it goes to the big g word the big giga the
second ever giga event, possiblyin america, and that's where we
met for the first time.
Remember that moment.
It was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It was a beautiful moment not for that many people
around us.
Everyone around us was lookingwith strange eyes, but apart
from that, that's okay they werea little weirded out, um, but
yeah, um, alley, alley.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So I I think you you've got something to look
forward to if you want to getthat oldest one.
Um, to me it's a littleintimidating to like.
I've never actually driven anATV, so it would be nice to go
with somebody, depending on yourexperience, because people can,
like, flip these things over,and they're not always but it'd
be nice to be able to go withsomebody that knows something
(19:58):
about ATV instead of just doingthis on your own.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I find that this could just, josh, this could
just be a smaller version of you, me and Tim when we did the
geocac in Arizona recently aswell.
We were in that Jeep and wewere like almost rock.
What do you call it?
Rock climbing or rock hoppingin that Jeep?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yes, rock scrambling, whatever they call it yeah,
something, whatever the term isfor jeeping through rocks.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, I don't know, know I don't know the term, but
yeah, that's what I feel like itcould be, but on a smaller
version, smaller scale.
So maybe tim could be ourdriver ally, ally.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
We might need to do that with you, um, I have
another thing just.
I just have note about the westvirginia tim, of course,
geocaches.
I did take a look at the WestVirginia Tim geocaches.
I did take a look at theGeoTour page on geocachingcom
and the original GeoTour had 66caches Currently.
Right now a lot of them aredisabled or archived, which I
(21:02):
just have some curiosity aroundthat.
I don't know if they're listed.
Maybe you know the answer tothis question to you or um craig
.
If they're listed, um, on thegeo tour page and some are
disabled and you don'tnecessarily, if you find all the
ones that are currently active,do you still get the souvenir?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
oh, that's, I don't know.
I don't.
I don't know that either.
I haven't got an answer for youfor that.
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
So anyway, my tip for that?
Either I haven't got an answerfor you for that one, either,
yeah, I don't know.
So anyway, my tip for you, ali,is, yeah, take a look at the
GeoTour if that's important toyou to complete it.
But I would also just searchTim's name and just look at
Tim's caches West Virginia Tim'scaches because there are
probably a lot of good ones thathe has hidden that aren't on
the Geo Tour, and then I wouldsort them by favorite points.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yep, yep, absolutely, absolutely.
All right, we're going to moveon now, josh, to our next one.
Now, after our last episode,this person reached back out to
us, josh, and he said we'retalking about Juan Michael Tula.
He said I like how Craig triedto pronounce my name in the
latest episode.
Josh, I know you love popculture, so maybe you can tell
him about the actor I was namedafter.
(22:09):
Do you know that the actor thatyou were named after?
No, that he was named after one, michael Tula.
What actor?
One Michael Tula?
One Michael Vincent, sorry, whoplayed Stringfellow?
Hawk in the show Airwolf oh inAirwolf.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Airwolf.
He was named after, yeah, anactor from airwolf there you go.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
So how do I pronounce his name?
I pronounce it wrong.
I attempted to I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Actually I still don't know j-a n yeah jan Jan.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Jan Michael Tula?
Maybe Jan Michael Tula.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
We're going to mess up again.
He's going to send us anotheremail.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
He really will.
That's good, that's good,though.
More encouragement, morereaching out, it's good, it's
good.
So there you go, anyway, jan,juan, jan, jan.
He asked what are your favoritecity, country or state featured
scavenger hunt or trails orcrawls.
Now he says caveat, doesn'thave to be related to ground
(23:12):
speak, freeze, tag games or anylocation-based games.
For example, he did the uhlunches and lagers tour in in
the space coast, which is thehome of the obviously dale and
barb from space coast geocachingstore.
Um, but yeah, he did that one.
So do you have any josh thatyou've done as a tour that's not
actually related to geocachingor any you know mobile game base
(23:33):
?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
yeah, he, he gave us a follow-up on the email about
this, so he called on a couplethat I was about to say.
So, yeah, the last episode Italked about the thomas dambo
stuff.
Those are.
Those are considered, you know,trails or they're considered
tours in different cities, likeyeah, so I thought the thomas
dambo trolls would be a goodexample of this another one I
(23:54):
thought of that is now retired,but sometimes state uh tourism
agencies, they create their ownsort of tours to explore their
state.
Yes, and so several years ago Idid this like three different
times.
There were in our state.
There was this tour calledcheckpoint minnesota, where they
had these signs that were nextto these checkpoint signs, next
(24:17):
to significant things inminnesota, and what you did is
you took a picture of yourselfat the place, so it was kind of
like a virtual.
You uploaded it to the website,and every photo of yourself
that you uploaded to the websiteyou got points, and then you
could redeem these points um, inlike essentially a store, and I
got like nice columbia boots, Igot jackets, I've got that, I
(24:39):
got backpacks.
So these companies sponsoredthis, and so the more of these
checkpoints you found, the moreum points you got, and thus I
got some really nice prizes.
That's so, um, it's no more,unfortunately, but I think a lot
of states or cities have theseincentives for visiting
different things in their townsyeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And if you need to know more, if you go to a town
or a city or whatever more townsthan cities uh, if you go to
their visitor center, theynormally have a visitor center.
If you go to the visitor center, they'll either A they'll tell
you if they've got, like somesort of tour of sorts or B
they'll just give you the bestplaces to eat and to drink and
to see things, so places youwouldn't ordinarily go.
(25:21):
So there you go.
Myself, josh, I always enjoyanything to do with food or
drink, like beer, etc.
So I love a brewery tour.
I really love brewery tours.
Now I've been to several brewerytours.
One was in flagstaff, arizona,um, like this year we've got
brewery tours here as well, inin new jersey.
(25:42):
But I do love again through appand I know it's a phone app and
we shouldn't be talking aboutphone apps, because that's what
he asked but Untappd has abrewery tour, sometimes in
Untappd as well.
That come out randomly too.
So keep your eye out for thatsort of stuff.
But yeah, I love a brewery tour, josh, I really do.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And he mentioned looking for ones that don't
relate to geocaching or Munzee.
However, a lot of these tourscross.
So a lot of these tours and Ihave a perfect example of that
that it's a tour withoutgeocaching, without anything, or
without Adventure Labs, butalso you can complete the tour
(26:23):
outside of that.
So the one in flagstaff, forexample, you like, I think it's
connected to actually a website,so it was an adventure lab, but
it was also something that theyjust set up themselves.
So another example of that isthe famous butler county donut
trail, of course, which used tobe an official GeoTour, but I
(26:45):
looked at their website.
It is still a tour that they do, and even when it was a
geocaching tour, if youcompleted all the donut shops,
you got a t-shirt.
So they have kept that going,so it's no longer a GeoTour, but
they have also kept the factthat if you visit all those
donut places, you get a t-shirt.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Well, that's another crossover that we did in that
case.
Well, josh, with the pizza tourthat we did, yes, because again
you don't have to be a geocacherto do the pizza tour and get a
T-shirt.
If you were a geocacher, yougot a T-shirt and you got a coin
, a geocoin.
So you get two for one deal.
So that's another one.
(27:30):
That's the same sort of yeah,they cross over.
And because they cross over sonicely too, let's be honest,
they do, they do, they really do.
So there you go.
Thank you, juan michael, janmichael, but anyway, josh, we're
going to move on now to a goodfriend of uh, of both of ours,
to andy zook.
Yes, you know, andy andy, Iknow andy andy.
He says I like movie locationepisodes.
I like movie locations first.
He says, any episodes thatyou've done about visiting the
(27:51):
real Punxsutawney, pennsylvania.
Check out how they've embracednot just the movie but all about
Groundhog Day.
So he wants us to talk aboutmovie locations, josh too.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Well, yeah, it wasn't really a question.
He asked us a question.
Yeah, it was like.
Yeah, actually he was like howabout visiting Pennsylvania?
and I'm like yeah, I want to doit.
So, yes, I, I would really loveto visit the real Pexatawney,
(28:23):
pennsylvania and experience thereal Groundhog Day.
Yeah, I would love to do that.
And here's the thing about Andy.
Andy is in the entertainmentindustry, so I I.
That just gave me a great idea.
We love talking.
Let's do a whole episode.
We love talking about movielocations or television show
locations, and he has probablybeen a part of productions where
(28:46):
he's actually been to some ofthese places, so I think we
should have Andy on the show atsome point.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
There you go, andy.
You heard it here first, maybebefore we even reach out to you
that we can have you on the showcome early 2025.
Absolutely, we're going to gethim on the show.
Well, I mean, we did have DaveBarsky from dirty jobs.
Have, um, dave barsky fromdirty jobs?
Oh, he was on the show too,josh, and he again, same thing
we.
He spoke to us in regards tohis favorite locations of
filming locations and why theywere good locations outside of
(29:13):
geocaching, which is great,which is really really cool.
Um, mate, I would love to go tothe rural punxsutawney
pennsylvania as well.
We've got a again another goodfriend of both of ours, josh as
well, dan truck and miller the.
He lives in Watsontown and he'sa patron as well, and
Watsontown is about two hoursdrive east, so if I was to see
him again then, yeah, I couldeasily just go two hours east
(29:35):
and see this PunxsutawneyPennsylvania as well.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It's probably difficult to get a hotel
anywhere near there duringGroundhog Day, so we might have
to sleep on Dan's farm two hoursaway and get up at like three
in the morning and head overthere.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It wouldn't be hard to do because obviously the
rooster you knowcock-a-doodle-doo at 5 am.
So, if you sleep through youralarm, then you'll be waking up
early anyway.
It also reminded me, josh, aswell, of my recent trip when I
was in the UK.
I know it's outside the us, butI love the tv show ted lasso.
(30:14):
Ted lasso it's on apple tv.
It is a fantastic and it's areally a wholesome tv show.
This one, josh, if you haven'tseen it, um, yeah, absolutely,
it's a must watch for me.
And a quick rundown is thatit's an.
It's an american guy and hegoes over to the UK to coach a
soccer team in which he's got noidea about what soccer is about
.
And the woman who owns thesoccer team, she wants to run
the soccer team into the groundbecause it's her ex-husband's
(30:35):
team, and so that's why shehires him.
Push comes to shove.
He does a really good job,surprisingly, and it's a really
good, feel good sort of TV show.
The whole show, josh, the entireshow was filmed in one little
area, one place called richmondin the uk, like a little
richmond town, and so I did atour with a tour guide around
richmond and mate.
(30:57):
It was fantastic.
This tour guide knew everything, which she calls herself a ted
head because it's ted lasser.
So she's a ted head.
Um, she knew every particularlocation, which episode was
filmed at which location andwhich which scene.
Even you know we.
Oh, do you remember when theywent down in the sewers here?
And, yeah, this is, it's howthey faked.
They faked a sewer drain aswell, because they didn't have
(31:19):
sewer drains like that in the uk?
They faked a sewer drain aswell.
So things like that as well.
For me personally, it's notabout the cashing, it's not
about the munzee, it's moreabout getting outside and
enjoying learning about howthings are made on TV, on the
big screen too.
So, yeah, I really enjoyed thatone.
Ted Lasso, you haven't seen it.
You've got to see that one.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Josh, oh, I've seen the first season, but then my
Apple need to get.
I need to get back into itbecause I really do enjoy.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I did enjoy that show you did the 60 day free trial
exactly fair enough.
What are some of your fun ones,josh?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
yeah, so, uh, most of the the locations that I've
been to I've already talkedabout on the show, but I'm gonna
I'm gonna list a few that Ihaven't been to that I would
like to visit.
So, uh, the back of the futureshooting locations.
I have visited doc's, uh, doc'shouse.
I visited the the lone pinetwin pine mall.
So there's, those are twolocations I had visited.
(32:18):
However, there's lots of otherplaces around there that I
haven't visited.
I haven't visited marty's house.
I haven't visited um biff'sbiff's house, there are.
There's also a, uh, I believe,a school where you can walk in,
where they film the enchantmentunder the sea dance.
So these are all.
These are all in hollywood, andI would just, I would love to
(32:38):
take a full tour of all the backthe future sites.
And then the other one is, uh,the karate kid which, um, you
know, you and I visited thatmural in, I think, encino,
california that's right but Iwould love to visit the
apartment.
I would love to.
There's lots of other placesI'd like to visit.
Uh, with the karate kid umbrownsville, oregon.
Have you seen the movie?
(32:59):
Stand by me with um.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yes, yeah, yeah.
With river With um.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
With River Phoenix and uh yes, the guy Wesley
Crusher.
I can't remember his name.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Was that found in Brownsville?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yes, Brownsville Oregon.
But Brownsville Oregon is thespot of the train scene where
they.
They're on that, that traintrestle, and they're worried
about crossing it, and then thetrain comes and they're running,
running, running.
I think there's a geocache herethere, because I watched a
geocaching video where at that,there was, of course, a geocache
in that spot.
So I'd love to visit that.
Um, I think you visited this, Ithink you visited this spot in
(33:37):
forest gump yes, I did thisbeautiful place out in the
middle of nowhere in utah, wherehe's running across the country
and then he stops and he saysthe famous line I think I'll go
home now.
I'm a little bit tired.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
That's the one Mate.
I'm telling you.
That spot is absolutelystunning.
It is in Utah and it is astraight line going down.
You see the monoliths in thebackground.
There is a lot of parking areaoff to the side, on each side of
the road.
There is people all over theroad all the time.
So if you're just driving forthose, there's no one local that
drives past.
(34:15):
But still, you know people, justliterally.
You know what people like, josh, they don't care about some
other people, so they just wantto get the shot, and so they
just want to get the shot, andso they'll stand in the middle
of the road and they don't movefor the cars.
Even I'm like come on, people,just get your shot and go.
But you know, some people aredoing dances, some people are
doing trying to do the run-up,and then they do the stop and
they try and recreate, reenactthe entire scene.
And uh, of course, yeah, butall I did was I got a quick
(34:37):
photo, josh, and then I did atop and bottom photo.
So I did the.
The top of the photo was theactual from the film and then
the bottom was the photo that Itook.
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
But, yeah, it's a beautiful place, the Forrest
Gump one and Utah in general,just a beautiful state Again, a
little five-star.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
There's not much around there, there's no actual
caches, physical, but there's afive-star adventure lab there as
well.
Oh, there is A five-pointadventure lab.
Yeah, adventure life.
Yeah, did you do?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
it?
Did you do it?
Yes, I did.
Yeah.
Were they forest gump themed?
Yes, it was.
Yeah, yeah, it was good it was.
I need to go.
Okay, I'm jealous um on thesame um tom hanks train.
Let me stay on that.
Um.
Have you seen the moviecastaway please?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
yes, I've cast away.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Okay, of course so at the end of castle wet cast away
, he's at the, he's in themiddle of the country at a fort,
like there's an intersection inthe middle of the road in the
country.
Yeah, he's, and a woman comesby, or a post post woman or
something, yeah, and uh, he seesher, like he meets her,
whatever right there, and thenshe heads down the road and it's
(35:44):
kind of like he has it's like afork in the road where he has
to decide like where am I goingwith the rest of my life or
whatever.
And it's just this, in themiddle of nowhere, two country
roads that cross.
It could be anywhere, yeah, butthis is actual place in north
texas that you can visit andit's kind of like the the
crossroads um end of Castawaylocation.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
There you go.
I think that'd be a cool one tovisit.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
One more, oh sorry.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah, I was going to say it happens all the time,
josh.
In most 90% of these timesthere is a cache, a physical
cache location there, or a pinor something there to prove to
people like this is the spot youknow and it reminds people like
that's exactly where to go, andit reminds people that's
exactly where to go and again,that's another reason why we
love this game.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
One more, craig.
One more Because you broke therules.
You broke the rules, you wentto the UK.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
This is about the USA , but I'm going to break the
rules too.
I would love to go to Salzburg,austria, because that is one of
the main areas that theyrecorded the movie the Sound of
Music.
Yes, and Craig, I've beencloser there twice now.
You know what I talked about.
I took that sleep train.
(36:56):
I pretty much took that sleeptrain.
I slept right by it practically.
No, I know it was a night soyou wouldn't be able to sleep.
Yeah, I know I would have hadto stop and then get back on the
train.
Yeah, but in so, the sound ofmusic is an incredible.
It's classic movie, musical,julie anders.
And here's the thing that'sfunny about it, because I know
(37:17):
some people that have taken thesound of music tour.
Um, in austria.
It's mostly, uh, loved byamericans yeah, of course, of
course yeah, the austrians.
They don't care about aboutsound of music for the most part
, and so, um, there's actual bustours where you hop on a bus
and you know up on the screenthey're showing clips of the
(37:38):
movie, and then you get out ofthe bus and you go visit that
spot and in between thedifferent movie locations it's a
sing-along.
People are singing along in thebus together, the sound of
music songs.
This is something I want to do.
I think that would just bebeautiful exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
You would need to take your time too, just because
I know you being you.
You enjoy filming yourselfreenacting.
Oh yes, you would have to bedancing, you would have to be
singing, you'd have to be thehills would definitely be, alive
.
If you were there, I'll giveyou the hot tea.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Oh, I just thought of another one and and this is my
this is probably my best videoon a movie location.
Is I actually reenacted all offerris bueller's day?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
off.
Yes, you did yes the wholething.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
And here's a fun fact I went to all the locations, uh
, uh, filming locations of themovie.
You know ferris bueller in themovie he does all these things
in one day.
Well, yeah, I found out thatyou cannot, you cannot possibly
do all these things in one day.
It took myself and tammy threedays three days to complete
ferris bueller's day off.
(38:45):
Wow, but um craig, please putthat video in the show notes.
I just watched it last nightbecause one of the locations was
the house from planes, trainsand automobiles, which I always
watch um during thanksgivingtime and uh, it's, it was edited
not by me.
You'll, you'll notice, you'relike, wow, the edit's really
good here.
It was edited by somebody elseand it wasn't even you, craig it
(39:05):
was somebody else.
This is before bc, before craig, so yes, exactly, um, but yes
and it's so cool because thatmovie, ferris bueller's day off
is basically one of thecharacters of the movie is the
city of chicago.
You get a good sense thatthere's a sears tower, now the
willis tower, there's themuseums, there's wrigley field
um, it's, it's really.
(39:26):
I really enjoyed doing all ofthose locations perfect.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Perfect, we'll do, mate, we'll do.
Emily reached out to us as well, um, and she spoke about the uh
, the apps, etc.
Now, we spoke about this lastweek, in last week's or last
episode, I should say, and butshe also uses now get this.
She uses a thing, an app calledSpot Hero, and it's great for
reserving parking in large areas.
She used it, josh, she used itin DC to make parking a breeze.
(39:53):
So there you go, you've gotSpot Hero.
Check out Spot Hero.
She also uses Auto Slash andthat saved her money for car
rentals or hire cars.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Nice, there you go.
So our patrons are nowanswering questions for other
patrons.
I love our community that we'recreating here.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Exactly exactly, all right, mate.
Moving on, andy Zook and MelStowe both of these patrons as
well reached out and had anotherquestion in regards to cruise
ships.
Have we been on any cruiseships?
Now?
Andy took a European cruise andvisited eight, six countries,
finding caches at every singlestop.
What are your experiences?
(40:34):
Maybe reach out to DeniseCanavan?
We have to speak to DeniseCanavan, who runs Caching Cruise
Trips atgeocachingadventuresllccom, so
we might have to speak to herand see if we get her on the
show one time too.
Josh, yeah, that'd be greatCruising, josh, have you done it
?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I have not I want to, though I really really want to.
My wife took her first cruiselast year and now she's taking
another one this year becauseshe enjoyed it so much last year
and now she's taking anotherone this year because she
enjoyed it so much and she was.
She was skeptical about aboutcruising, but she really, really
enjoyed it, just because it'slike super stress-free, right.
(41:14):
Yeah, they just they give youeverything you need.
You can just relax and then,and then you know it's, it's a.
I think I I've never taken acruise, but I I what I've heard
is like there's this like senseof when you're on the ship,
everything's taken care of youVery relaxing, food, there's
lots of stuff to do, but thenthe adventure can begin on the
(41:36):
excursions, with geocaching, ofcourse.
Like Andy, six countries that'sso cool.
He got six souvenirs for that.
Exactly this is something Iwant to do, craig, I know that
you have done it.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yes, yes, I've only done it twice.
I've done it once years andyears ago, 20-plus years ago in
Australia, before my geocachingtime, and yeah, that was a
really nice cruise.
That was a very similar.
It's like the cruise you seefrom Florida cruises it was hot
weather, from Florida cruises,you know, it was hot weather, it
was nice seas, we did some hopoff on islands, you know, and we
(42:08):
did some snorkeling, et cetera,around some islands.
So it was one of those type ofcruises.
But I've also done the Alaskacruise as well.
An Alaskan cruise, yes.
Now, this Alaskan cruise isabsolutely incredible.
First and foremost, though, youget into a dome roof train from
Anchorage all the way up toDenali.
So the dome roof train, josh,you can actually see outside and
(42:28):
you can see the non-existentwildlife.
We didn't see any bears, wedidn't see any moose, we didn't
see anything at all alltraveling up through Alaska, but
anyway, you get up to Denali,and we stayed in Denali
overnight as well and then youget the bus back down to
Whittier, and then it was 10nights cruising from Whittier to
Vancouver, and that stops inplaces called Skagway, junee and
(42:51):
Ketchikan as well.
Those places, the way you stopland tours incredible,
absolutely.
I did a photography tour at onestop.
I did like a food walking foodtour at another stop, where I
made this beautiful salmon roestuff, like oh it's delicious,
and then one of the other onesas well.
I think this was one.
Back in ketchikan they have theaxe man show, josh, now, after
(43:14):
seeing you throw an axe, becausethey asked they asked for
volunteers from the audience tojoin in in axe throwing too.
You would be ideal, you wouldwin that hands down, the little
axe show that they do, but theydo a full axe show as well, and
they teach you about back in theday, when there used to
literally be a lot more loggingpeople and a lot of axe men
around, and how they used to log.
And then they play thedifferent logging games et
(43:37):
cetera as well, and you sit onone side, you go for Team Red or
team blue or blah blah.
So it's a lot of fun, a lot offun.
So alaskan cruises.
So there you go yeah, was that?
Speaker 1 (43:47):
that wasn't a geocaching cruise, that was just
like a regular cruise for youregular cruise.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Yeah, regular cruise, although, although, although,
yes, some places there, when yougo through, like glacier bay,
because you, you actually go upto glacier bay and as you go up
the bay itself, in into thissort of like a dead-end area,
it's literally just all water.
There's not one, but twoglaciers, josh, one coming down
one side, one coming down theother side.
The boat stops because it can'tgo any further, and then the
(44:14):
boat 360, around and around andaround, really, really slow, so
you can literally just stay onyour own deck and you'll see one
glacier, then you'll see thenext glacier and it just goes
around like a 360 degree view.
So you can just sit there inthe boat where you are.
You don't have to go from oneside of the boat to the other,
um, and it just shows you aroundand, of course, there's not one
(44:35):
but two earth caches there, see.
So so, yeah, there is, there isearth caches along all the
glaciers and stuff as well.
So it wasn't a geocaching trip,but did I get geocaches while I
was on the trip?
Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
I've heard that on these Alaskan cruises that
people can essentially do earthcaches from a hot tub.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
Yes, yes, you can.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Be on a deck in a hot tub passing glaciers.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Literally from one extreme to another.
You're doing a glacier earthcache from the hot tub of a pool
.
So yeah, it's really reallynice.
So you know this.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
This brings up a very interesting question that I
have for the patrons or anybodythat's listening to this.
Yeah, this is something that Iwant to do.
It's on my bucket list.
My wife is taking cruises withher friends.
I want to take a cruise with myfriend see my shell.
So I'm wondering.
I think maybe we should contactdenise canavan.
(45:32):
I think so and I would you beinterested, listeners, in a
treasures of our town sponsoredtrip where you would go with us
on a geocaching trip?
Because, um, I've heard ofDenise before.
She literally plans these.
You're joining a cruise shipwith other cruisers.
Obviously, you're not going tofill a whole boat full of
(45:54):
geocachers.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
But she plans it, and she plans it around the places,
the excursions that geocacherswould want to visit, and so I'm
just curious, we should, maybe,craig, look into this.
Uh, and because I, I would, Iwould love just to take a cruise
, just you and I doing this, butbut maybe, maybe we could bring
some listeners along with us, adozen, ten if that's something
(46:18):
that you would be interested in,if you'd be interested in
hanging out with us.
You'd be hanging out with us forI don't know a week or so, and
you know what would be reallyfun if we did something like
that.
We could, we could actually doa live show as a part of the
cruise on the cruise ship and wecould have.
You know, even if it's justlike five I mean, I'm dreaming
small okay five people otherthan us, seven, I think.
(46:40):
I think maybe 12 would be great, because it's like the 12
disciples, that's a good number.
But, craig, do you think thiswould be something that could
happen?
Speaker 2 (46:51):
100%, 100%, absolutely can happen.
I mean, if you think about it,if our good friend Scott Burks
over at the Geocaching Podcastcan organize a turkey trip
during Thanksgiving, goingacross the ET Highway, then we
can organize this.
Josh, Surely, surely.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
It'll be a little bit more expensive, probably than
the ET Highway, but there areprobably other geocachers like
us that have wanted to do it,and I just think doing it with
other people.
And here's the cool thing.
I'm sure there'll be partswhere we will meet all together
and socialize, but then there'sa lot of parts of cruises that
you can just do things on yourown too, so you wouldn't
(47:27):
necessarily be stuck with us thewhole time.
No, no, no, although we'repretty fun to travel with I mean
, after all, we have a travelpodcast.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
This is true, this is true.
And if you don't believe us,you can just ask our good friend
Tim as well.
Minnesota Boy, he'll be able tovouch for us.
So there you go, so.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Craig, I'm thinking something.
I have been to Alaska so Idon't know if I want to do that
again, I'm thinking somethingtropical, I'm thinking something
warm, I'm thinking maybeBahamas type, you know, one of
those where you can hit severalislands.
Yes, yes, yes and um, you know,I'm from minnesota, I want to
get somewhere warm, so exactly,I'd be open to other things.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
So we, we're going to talk, we're going to talk to
denise, we'll talk, we're goingto talk to keep keep you all
posted and obviously you'regoing to get her on the show as
well after we've organizedthings too, so that's absolutely
that's a hundred percent tick.
So from there.
Meanwhile, just we've got alsothe happy ho dag christopher,
yes, um he.
Now this is geocaching.
Back to geocaching.
He said what is your favoriteor most memorable place you've
discovered because of geocaching?
(48:29):
So that was a good.
I think this is a good question.
It raises the point because wealways say you know, one of our
favorite things about geocachingis the places it takes you, the
locations.
He's asking you what's yourfavorite?
So there you go you what's yourfavorite.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
So there you go.
Well, that's interestingbecause, um, I really tried to
think about this question fromtwo angles.
Number one I mean I'vediscovered a lot of places
through geocaching, yeah, butI'm wondering, I was, I answered
this like an area that Iwouldn't have gone and I almost
discovered like by accident yeahbecause something geo-related
was there.
So I know the happy hoedag.
He's from Wisconsin.
So Waukesha, Wisconsin.
(49:07):
I was just doing some cachesright before the West Bend Cache
Bash and I was in Waukeshabecause there were some highly
favorited caches there and I hadsome time to kill and I noticed
there was an adventure lab.
And I discovered it was anadventure lab about Les Paul.
Do you know who Les Paul is?
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Les Paul no.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
He is the inventor of Les Paul, the famous Les Paul
guitars.
Oh, okay, it's a very famousguitar.
Well, waukesha, I found out, isactually his hometown.
So it was a five stages.
It took me through this lovelylittle town of Waukesha, um, and
of just kind of through hislife.
I I would have no idea aboutthis town and there was like a
(49:51):
festival happening when I wasthere.
It was like it was a big partyand um, it was just, yeah,
surprising, um, and I would nothave discovered this little town
and I wouldn't discover thatthis was like the less paul, the
home of less paul, the famousless paul guitars.
So that was one that came tomind that I've never, and also
I'm trying to focus on things Ihaven't really talked about on
this podcast yes, how about you?
Speaker 2 (50:12):
uh, me personally.
It's one location that isthermopolis, in wyoming, a
little town in wyoming, in themiddle of literally the middle
of wyoming, um is a place called.
Now, I was there because ofgeocaching and I was there
because a good friend of ours aswell, smilemakers Dave at the
time he lived in Thermopolis andso I was meeting up with him
(50:34):
and also, obviously, geocachingat the time too.
So that's the reason whygeocaching brought me to
Thermopolis.
I wouldn't have gone thereotherwise.
Now, this place for me mepersonally it's all about that
home, that small little hometownfeel, but at the same time
you've got the open space ofwyoming.
You see, there's there's notthat many people there josh like
in terms of the actual townnumbers themselves.
Now also, I love hot spring.
(50:56):
You know me.
I love a good bath.
You know me in my absolute.
I love a good soak.
I could soak josh for two orthree hours in a bath Easily.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Turn into a prune.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Speaking of which, I'll be doing that after we
record.
But anyway, getting back ontrack, and that is the hot.
There's Hot Springs State Parkis there, whereby you can
literally have your dip in andout and everything else as well.
But I've also now I've got anearth cache there too, josh.
Nice, because I've got an earthcache there too, josh, because
I loved it that much, you see.
So I've now got an earth cachethere.
The earth cache talks about theminerals that form through
(51:27):
these spouts of the undergroundtunnels.
There's the Wind River Canyonthere, josh.
Now the Wind River Canyonliterally was a canyon that was
developed from Wind End River,so erosion was a canyon that was
developed from Wind End River,so erosion.
When I first got there, it wasgoing on dusk and Smile Makers
(51:48):
was there.
I was there with him andanother guy as well, and he said
look at your app, craig.
And I looked around and went oh, there's an FTF up here.
He goes yes, there is.
He placed it there, you see,just for us.
But, josh, it was afour-and-a-half terrain, just
for us.
But, josh, it was afour-and-a-half terrain.
We had to scale halfway up theactual embedded cliff face with
(52:10):
no ropes or anything at all atdusk in order to get the ammo
can.
So, again, that was one ofthose things, josh, that will
always in my mind, stick with methroughout my entire life.
Hopefully, you know what I mean.
It's one of those experiencesthat you have in life whereby
you just I remember that thatwas a good time, that was a
great time.
So, yeah, that's mine, josh'sthe demopolis in Wyoming.
(52:31):
Do you have any more?
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Yeah.
Another one that came to mindwas in Minnesota.
We have a city calledAlexandria, minnesota, and I
knew about the town, alexandria,but I had not really spent much
time there.
And there's a you know how Ilove the big things right
there's a big statue of theworld's largest Viking, big Oli.
So I was like I gotta visit BigOli because it's a virtual, so
(52:54):
I visit Big Oli.
And then I realized thatthere's a museum next to Big Oli
and the museum is about thisyears ago, like the 1900s, some
farmer unearthed this old relicand this old relic had Viking
writings on it in the middle ofMinnesota Vikings, okay.
(53:22):
And they were like these werevikings writings.
And and they were like, oh mygosh, vikings visited minnesota
before, even, yeah, beforeanything like well, like we're
talking, I think like like eight, the eight hundreds or
something like that, before anypart of the british yeah, yeah,
and the the theory is now it'scontested because they think it
(53:45):
might be a hoax.
Oh right, it's still contested.
Yeah, um, because they'vecarbon dated it and all it goes
all back and forth anyway.
But it showed this museum wasall about that.
That fame, this thing that aguy found in a field in the
middle of minnesota and they the, is that the Vikings went
through the Great Lakes andfollowed the rivers all the way
(54:07):
to this spot in the middle ofMinnesota and for some reason,
some of them visited there,stopped there and let's do our
mark.
Yeah, fascinating history or, Idon't know, could have been fake
news from the 800s.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
Either way, it's good to know.
It's good to know.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Yeah, but it was fascinating.
You know I love my museums, andjust learning about the fact
that the Vikings were hereprobably before any of us were
here, it was fascinating.
Alexandria, minnesota,beautiful little town.
Speaker 2 (54:38):
There you go.
Do you have any more, or can wemove on Because we've got one
last?
Speaker 1 (54:41):
let's move on let's move on.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
Let's move on.
Last and but definitely notleast, jamie, the motor rimba
man.
He's, uh, he's, he's repliedagain.
He's asking, and I thought Ithought we'll leave this one
because it's a good one, it's aquick one.
He says any crazy challenge,geocaches that you've done or
you haven't done but would liketo, that require traveling of
some sort.
Uh, for instance, he completedthe nine state challenge, gc4,
(55:07):
pzck, where you must visit ninedifferent states in 24 hours,
nine states in 24 hours and findat least one cache in each
state.
At the same time, josh, he didthe 24 hour challenge, which is
gc3dy2a, which requires at leastone cache every hour for 24
hours oh, I wonder how many napshe took.
(55:31):
I know, I know I mean, look,let's be honest, a lot of these
geocaching is different.
This is where geocaching isdifferent to munzee is because
it is more reliant upon, on asystem you know, um, you don't
have, whereas munzee, youliterally have to be in that
location at that time to cap itand that it's logged at that
time and location, whereas, uh,yeah, the geocaching is more on
(55:54):
a system, wise.
But have you done anything likethat, josh, in terms of, like,
traveling, uh, challenge cash?
Speaker 1 (55:59):
sorts.
So I'll just say I'm not a bigum challenge casher oh yeah, I'm
just not, because a lot, of, alot of them involve like numbers
and you know I'm not a bignumbers guy.
Speaker 2 (56:13):
Yeah, however, unless the numbers, unless the numbers
are favorite point numbers,then you're a big number.
Speaker 1 (56:17):
This is true, or souvenir or souvenir numbers,
souvenirs collected yes, that'simportant to me.
Um, we all have our things welove.
Anyway, I started geocaching in2008, so around 2009, there was
a uh, a challenge of 100 caches.
Now this isn't going to soundcraig, this is not going to
sound like very difficult, butin 2009 yeah, 2009.
(56:42):
This was very challenging 15 100geocaches yeah, 100 geocaches
in three states in 24 hours.
This is the challenge of that.
The first time I attempted it.
So I tried minnesota, wisconsin, iowa.
The first time we attemptedthis, we failed.
How could you?
Speaker 2 (56:57):
fail how?
Speaker 1 (56:59):
because we didn't, we ran out of time.
Oh, we found a lot of caches inthe Minnesota area.
We strapped bikes to the back,you got to remember.
I didn't even have any powertrails, so we were just finding
random parks that had like fivecaches each and then, once we
hit like 75 caches, we boltedfor Wisconsin, found like one or
(57:22):
two wisconsin, and then we hadto bolt to iowa.
So you know this challenge thatjamie is talking about nine
state challenge in 24 hours likethat.
That's way easier on the westcoast yeah, I'm sorry, the east
coast, east coast than it is inthe midwest.
So I I failed this challenge.
I failed this challenge and wedidn't get 100.
(57:43):
So I did it again, like acouple of years later, and we
completed it.
Speaker 2 (57:48):
Well, I mean on the East, josh, you could literally
do New Jersey, Delaware, westVirginia, that sort of.
You can do that in an hour.
You know you can do four inPennsylvania you can do
Pennsylvania, delaware and.
New Jersey, literally in fiveminutes, to be honest, with you,
right, right, right on thecorner of it.
So there you go, mine, josh,mine was back in Australia.
Mine is GC6VF7W.
(58:11):
I had to look it up.
It is now archived because theowners have moved, but it's
called the Australia All OverChallenge.
Now, when this first came out,it was basically find one cache
in every single state orterritory of australia and
there's eight and australia'sthe same size as the us, but
find one cache in every singlestate and territory in one
calendar year.
(58:31):
When it first came out, thereviewer didn't realize at the
time and people complainedwhatever some you know as they
do, uh, and apparently it wasn'tallowed to be a time constraint
on it, so they couldn't do itone year.
so they've changed it up andthey said um, like you know
every state and territory inaustralia.
But what they did, josh, forthose of us who want that
(58:53):
challenge, still that in onecalendar year challenge they
actually did like an honor rollon the cash page.
So if you did it and youqualified in that one calendar
year, you got got on that honorroll.
Josh, I am on that honor roll.
I'll just say, yes, now there's24 people on that honor roll in
five years.
So that's how quite difficultit is too.
So only 24 cashers in fiveyears.
(59:14):
That that was out or on thathonor roll.
That's got to be tough.
So there you go, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (59:20):
I have an idea for a challenge.
Cash you ready for it?
Yeah, so there's a virtualcache in Key West.
There's that big marker.
Speaker 2 (59:32):
Have you been down to Key West, the big marker, which
is the most southern?
I haven't been yet, but I'veseen several photos and videos.
Speaker 1 (59:35):
Yeah, so there's a marker that marks this most
southern spot of the contiguous,the contiguous, the 48 states?
Yeah, because I believe, Ibelieve hawaii is actually
farther south than that, um, anduh, obviously alaska is farther
north, um, and so there's amarker there.
It's been a virtual that's beenthere for a long time.
(59:56):
Well recently now, there is nowa virtual um that is marking
the most northern spot in thecontiguous 48 states.
And it's interesting, craig,because the markers look they're
twins.
The twin markers.
They look the same.
I think they're a littledifferent colors, but they look
the same.
Yeah, so somebody hit a virtualthere.
(01:00:18):
All right, this is a challengefor our listeners.
Wouldn't it be cool to have achallenge where you have to find
that most southern one and themost northern one and then
somebody puts a challenge cachethat is directly in between the
two of them, right?
in the middle, like the halfwaypoint between them.
Wouldn't that be a good ideafor a challenge?
Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Absolutely, and do it in 24 hours.
You have to do that in 24 hours.
Find in in 24 hours.
You have to do that in 24 hours.
Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
I'm both in 24 hours you could do it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
You probably have to fly oh yeah, you'd have to fly,
absolutely have to fly.
No, no, you couldn't do it witha time frame anymore now, so
you can't do things with timeframes like that, unfortunately,
anymore but yeah, I think thatwould be a uh interesting
challenge yes, but right in themiddle makes sense.
Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Yeah, any of you out there.
It might exist already, but anyof you out there, um, you can
steal the idea, make it happen.
Make it happen.
Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
You could only you could only make it happen if you
lived directly in the middle ofbetween the two.
That's the only time you couldactually do it.
Because you have to, becauseyou have to maintain the cash
josh you can't live too far awayfrom where you hide a cache.
Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Or find something that lives close to it.
Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Find a farmer of some sort.
Can we hide this ammo?
Can in your field, please, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
It's probably in the middle of, like the Appalachian
Mountains or something.
Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Exactly.
We're going to have to look.
We're going to look after thisepisode.
We'll give you that.
Meanwhile, josh, we're going toend it there.
That was our last question.
So that was good, did you enjoy?
Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
this Patreon?
Yeah, I enjoyed the beautifulsmell, the beautiful potpourri
of questions.
Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Potpourri, exactly Meanwhile, josh.
We are always looking forquestions.
We're looking for thought ideasin terms of shows etc.
How can people reach out to usif they've got an idea for a
show or a thought process oreven just a normal question?
Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Yeah, they can reach out to us at
treasuresovertownpodcasts atgmailcom.
You can reach out to us there,or you can follow us on Facebook
, instagram, x or YouTube, soyou can reach out to us in any
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Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
Exactly, or, josh, if they want to be like inside,
inside the loop, the innercircle, as scott burke's likes
to say, how can they become oneof our patrons as well?
Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
yes, um, this podcast is completely patron supported,
so we really appreciate all thesupport of our patrons.
So if you're interested injoining us, um, and maybe don't
know, maybe you get innerdetails about our future cruise.
Yeah, you might know about ourcruise.
You might be able to sign upfor our cruise before anybody
(01:02:51):
else.
I'm totally just making stuffup right now I don't know, but
that could be If you want tosupport us, and we also provide
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So you can consider followingus or supporting us at
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Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
So that's our show for today.
Please subscribe, rate andreview on your favorite
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Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
And again, josh, as always may your travels always
lead you to the most unexpectedand amazing hidden gems around
the world.
See you next time, everybody,stay warm, stay warm, bye.
She didn't get it in I know, Iknow you didn't even give me a
(01:03:43):
hint during the podcast youwatched planes, trains and
automobiles last night onthanksgiving, you shared it.
Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
You shared it, josh, with your, your fans, etc.
On instagram stories, Ireshared it on uh, on treasures
of our town.
Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
He didn't get it in, but guess what it is in, because
you're gonna put this segmentin the podcast.
Will you do that for us?
Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
I'll do that.
I'll not do it for.
I'll do it for you, josh, I'lldo it for you.
So if you're still listening tothis, then you're one of the
very few that listened to theepisode all the way through yeah
, and you know, you know I'mproud of my town, craig's proud
of his town, because you knowwhat?
Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
that's a rare thing these days.
It's a damn rare things thesedays thanks for listening, guys.
Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
You did bye.
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