Geocaching In Tennessee With The Family

And of course, whenever we travel somewhere, we just had to do a little geocaching there.

This cache is at a museum in Hohenwald. We were joined by quite a few relatives for this search.

We searched high and they searched low, and low proved to be the best position in which to find it!

It looks like we have some winners! They found it up inside the steel framing of the caboose.

Next, we drove over to Columbia and hunted for a couple of them in a park. Wow, we have a bunch of people out hunting for this one! Let's see if I can get this right; Hans, Luann, Karen, Sharon, Dena, Katrina, Colten, Caleb and Kayleen? If I misspelled a name or two, or three, please let me know so I can fix this...

I think Karen is trying to say; "Hey! Where are you going? It's over there!"

Colten was in a big rush to get to the cache-site and wasn't paying attention to how slippery the mud was, until he slid on has fanny through a mud puddle, that is. Uh, yeah buddy... you definitely have a big 'Butt-Trophy' back there now. Nice job...

He only let this slow him down for a moment, then he was back to the business of finding that geocache.

It looks like Karen was right. She found the container and it was an FTF (First Time Find) too.

On the way back down the trail, we paused to take some interesting pictures.

Yeah, I think this was worth it.

Unfortunately, Luann wrestled with Mr. Gravity and he won. Thankfully, she didn't get hurt, but she did get muddy. What a trooper! That's what a real geocacher is all about. You might get wet, you might get muddy, you might get a scratch or two, but after all that, you will be getting that #*&%$#% cache!!!

On the next one, Dena and Caleb found the container at the base of this tree. Nice, "Mother & Son in the Woods of Tennessee", picture.

As for the rest of the gang, they preferred to hang out on this hillock overlooking the rest of the geocaching team, coaching, offering advice or just plain-ole haranging us 'down-hillers'.

When I made a comment about Karen 'smacking fanny' at me while I was taking the previous picture, the girls decided to present me with their version of "Booty Call". Funny... Uh-huh, real funny, ladies...

Here is the third one we found in the park. Actually, we were wandering around about ten feet away from Karen, when she noticed a rock that didn't seem to belong with its surroundings, so she moved it. Well, her 'geo-senses' were running on overdrive, because she found the container.

This was the last one we found in the park because it really started raining hard. We found out later that the rain was accompanied by a tornado, which touched down about a couple of miles away from where we were. And we think that geocaching in Florida with alligators and other such critters is dangerous...

After Sharon and Dena took off in their car to go do something, the weather started clearing up, so we had to look for just one more cache before heading back to Hohenwald. This one was placed at a monument to 'Pop Greer', famous to the locals for his involvement in horse racing.

We didn't realize how much hiking we had done in the previous park, until Karen stopped & pointed out how tiring it was to hike up these steps.

Katrina made the find on this one and we quickly signed the logbook, took a geocoin and dropped off 3 travel bugs.

Ok, just one more look before we go.

This coffee house was a great place to get some foo-foo coffee and a nice snack while using their free wi-fi service. The people that run this place are very nice. We had such a great time there, that we asked the owners if we could place a geocache on the property. The owners (Bart & Renee) agreed to let us do so and even agreed to maintain the cache-site for us. Well, that makes cache #7 planted by Team GodinDraak.

They were having something like a yard sale when we stopped by (I think this picture was taken on visit number 2).

Hello Pepper! What a nice little kitty... We stopped by the coffee cafe 3 times before leaving for Florida. We really had a nice time visiting, and we seemed to have made friends with the owners. We can't wait to come back again for another visit.

Luann snapped this picture during our first visit to the coffee shop. What do you think?

So, this is a small slice to show our geocaching experiences while we were visiting up in Tennessee. We really had fun with all of our family members, using billion-dollar satellites to go looking for tupperware in the forest...

It was nice to get the group together, then out and about for something like this and we had a grand old time. Karen was the cut-up, as usual. Dena was willing to go charging into the environs for the next cache, the kids treated it like a treasure hunt (which it is, kinda...) and Sharon surprised us all by continuing on, even in the face of adversity (rain, mud, slippery slopes, bush-whacking, etc), way to go! Thanks for going hunting for caches with us, we really enjoyed it, and now we all have our own individual stories to tell about the experience.