Our Arizona Trip Update

Well, a lot has gone on since the last time I wrote about the trip Erin and I are planning on taking over the summer. For one, school has really caught up to me and is starting to what feels like defeat me. Second, I have yet to find a job for when I graduate and that was a stipulation that I put upon myself in order to take this trip. However, I am trying to stay positive about the whole thing and my hope is that we still are able to go. For the past couple of weeks I have just been itching to begin planning the caches we should go after on our journey. However, I have held back because then I am afraid I will get my hopes up too much in that slight chance that we are unable to go. On the flipside, I should have been working on the boatloads of projects that I have coming due in the next couple of weeks and I have been unsuccessful at those as well. Regardless, it does not hurt to have some ideas for our trip still running around in my head. For instance, the very few times I have been caching since my first post about the trip I have been saving up every trackable item we have retrieved. If and when we take our trip we will then place them in the numerous states we visit along the way to Arizona and on the way back. I realize that a few of these we will have held onto for about two months, but I try to look on the bright side of that. A lot of cachers, like me, enjoy seeing their trackable move a great distance in between holders. I look at it like we are doing the right thing in holding these items until we can move them a legitimate distance from its previous home. I have also been in the process of running queries for the different areas in which we are going to want to cache. These are small steps for such a big trip, but like I said, I do not want to get too excited just yet. As of right now it is fingers crossed that we get to go.