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Goodbye 2019 Hello 2020

January 1, 2020Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged 2019, 2020, back in the game, blogging, Cache, caches, caching, East Yorkshire, family, Family day out, Family fun, fun, Geocache, Geocachers, Geocaching, Geocaching HQ, GilmourFamily, Jennifer Gilmour, life, New Year, New Year’s Day, New Year’s Eve, Riley, Robyn, sophie, souvenirs, The Gilmours, walk, walking, YorkshireLeave a comment

When we found out there were souvenirs to be claimed on the last day of 2019 and the first day of 2020; we couldn’t avoid the urge.

Souvenirs in the Geocaching world are like digital badges on your profile and throughout your Geocaching adventures, sometimes there will be a challenge set to achieve them and sometimes it will because you found a cache in a different country.

To claim the individual souvenirs we had to find one cache on each day and I am glad to say that we DIT IT! We actually did it in 2018 as well but in 2017 we only managed to claim one as we were away.

New Year’s Eve and we managed to find a Geocache very local to us, we like to keep a few for emergency caching. Thankfully we can find micro’s nice and easy now. Our last cache of 2019 was Priory Road Cache and Dash (GC676GF).

Our caching year totals so far:

2017- 191

2018- 134

2019- 102

Despite the decline in finds we absolutely love Geocaching and 2020 we are going to aim to increase our finds. Things are a little different as we are now a family that works from home full time. We are looking forward to 2020.

2020 arrived and Rob is going to remind us all of this moment, the first find of the new year. A quick magnetic find and not that far from us, we were near Riplingham. 100 yards (GC6RKAD).

We didn’t stop there, we went on to find three more and had a lovely fresh New Years Day walk. We would have done more but it was a bitter cold despite the sun shining bright on us.

You can see they were all excited to be back out caching again but it can get competitive. Your dog will like this one (GC6RK9R).

Two new badges and an exciting caching year ahead planned.

The Gilmours

Streak week starts tomorrow

August 24, 2019Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged adventures, Badge, blog, blogging, challenge, digital badge, Durham, Geocache, Geocachers, Geocaching, Geocaching challenge, Geocaching HQ, holiday, profile, streak week, The Gilmours1 Comment

Did you hear?

It’s streak week starting tomorrow (25th August), can you find a cache every day for 7 days? You can find more of course but this is about not breaking your streak.

Of course we are joining in with the challenge as we haven’t had a long streak for a while and our longest was 8 days back in 2017.

If only the last two days counted because we found 6 caches today and 4 yesterday. Rob is off work and this means we can go farther afield with our caching.

Will you be joining in?

Our plans are to do some local caches that we have been meaning to do through the first part of the week and the second part we are traveling up to Durham to see a friend and stay the night… of course we will be Geocaching whilst we are there and on the way back as a long route back.

We can’t wait to share our adventures with you.

What do you get if you complete streak week? A digital badge on your profile and we want it.

Find out more about Streak week on the Geocaching website here.

Geocaching Appreciation Week 2019 – #IHeartGCHQ

January 27, 2019Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged Cache, caches, daughter, East Yorkshire, family, family cachers, fun, Geocache, Geocachers, Geocaching, Geocaching Appreciation Week, Geocaching HQ, GilmourFamily, healthy, hobby, Jennifer Gilmour, kids, life, love, Riley, Robyn, sophie, The Gilmours, therapy, trail, travel, walking, weekend, youtube2 Comments

This blog was prompted by The Geocaching Vlogger, his video on declaration of an appreciation week for Geocaching HQ. We wanted to join in somehow and so the least we can do is write a blog post. In fact it’s the first one of 2019, we need to get back in on it. The Gilmour’s have done plenty of New Year Caching after all.

I’m going to try and not be so sentimental but I think it’s unavoidable. Here’s my message to Geocaching HQ…

Thank you doesn’t cut it for us because Geocaching has brought a lot to our lives. We have been caching for almost 2 years, in fact as soon as we discovered it we went out to cache. At first we enjoyed it, we couldn’t believe this was across the world and around us and then after time went by we realised what a difference it’s made to us. The time we went out caching was a way of escaping the reality of our lives at times, a way to get healthy and a way to spent time working as a team in our family unit. I used to laugh at those shirts that said ‘Geocaching is my therapy’ and then I came to realise that we could even relate to this. Escapism from my reality was important and still is at times, still recovering from an abusive relationship from some years ago. I do love nature and used to go walking a lot but it became difficult as it ended up thinking over situations etc all the time. Geocaching gives you a focus. Not many people know about my connection with Geocaching like this, so it’s quite personal. Thank you again HQ.

Our three children growing up with caching, this photo was from a couple of weeks ago.

This was a first family photo on our first Geocaching trail back in 2017.

Find out more about the Geocaching Appreciation week from Joshua himself…

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Jen and the rest of the Gilmour’s