A Few More FTF’s to Finally Keep Us Moving

It has been a long time since Erin and I have been out in the field collecting multiple caches in one outing. As a matter of fact, it will continue to be a long time because although I was able to snag two caches a few days ago, they were unfortunately without her. I had actually been at work at The Home Depot on Sunday and a fellow cacher came in to buy some stuff for their house. Naturally, we began talking about geocaching because that is what we do. After a little chit chat he hinted to me that he hid two caches on his way to the store and that I should keep my eye out for them to be published that night. He even went as far as telling me that they were going to be close to my home. I know that some people may not agree with this, but it was all harmless. Everyone had equal chances once they were published because all the hardcore cachers in my area all get text messages the moment a cache is ready to go. Immediately when I got home from work I filled my dad in on the information that I had received and we decided to wait it out and just see when the caches published. It had been getting pretty late and still no caches were popping up as new. Finally, at about nine at night I got two text messages regarding two new caches in the area. It was them! After a few minutes of deliberation with my father, we decided to give it a go and see if we could get first to finds on both of the caches. We did the one closer to our house first thinking that was our best shot and turns out it was. We found it and discovered a clean log inside of it. It was nice to get another FTF under our belt. Then it was time to head to the other one further from the house and just hope that one of the other cachers did not snag it up yet. I must say that I was not to confident with this one, but turns out we were indeed FTF again! Basically, in a nut shell, I still am itching to have an all day cache hunt with Erin the next time I see her, but the satisfaction of achieving two FTF’s in one night should at least hold me over a little while longer.