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MOGA’11

Published on April 1, 2011 in Uncategorized. 2 Comments

This past weekend, I attended my first Mega-Event when the family and I headed down to the MOGA’11 at Rend Lake, IL. I don’t think I could have asked for a more fun and interesting weekend.

We arrived Friday night just in time to kick off the big bash with the BYO…Buccaneer’s Booty Bash Before the Big Bash. For this event, Matthew dressed in his pirate gear and entered a costume contest… He won 1st place. We all had lots of fun mixing and mingling with all the other pirates and cachers. Then Saturday, despite the rain, sleet and snow, we went caching.  A little inclement weather only added to challenge… However, I wouldn’t be lying if I said that I would have been happier if it was sunny and a little less wet. At the end of the day we reached a new personal best caching as a family with 33 finds, plus 10 kids caches… The kid caches don’t earn us any smilies, but Matthew enjoyed finding them all the same. On Sunday, we extended our cache-cation to include a side trip to St. Louis to take in the sights and visit with some friends and of course find a few caches. As far as the numbers go… when our trip was all said and done we found 43 caches, added a new state and 5 new Illinois counties.

I’m already looking forward to MOGA 2012. In fact, the family and I are already booked.

The Times They Are a-Changin’

Published on March 23, 2011 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

Over the last couple of years, I grew a bit tired of blogs. I often just didn’t have the time and energy to really want to post anything. I know some came here to read about my “adventures”, and I am sorry that I had nothing new or exciting to entertain or inform you with. But, maybe I just needed that time to reevaluate my blog.

So, it’s time to change things up. For starters, I’ve wiped the slate clean, so to speak. I deleted the old blog completely and installed a fresh new blog. And for those of you who haven’t been paying close attention… I changed the name from pierson.homeip.net to just spierson82.net. I haven’t been maintaining pierson.homeip.net for a while, so it was just easier to go with my hosted domain anyways. Also, if you haven’t been to this blog in a while, you’ll likely notice that the site looks a bit different. I’ve changed up the layout a bit and more than likely will continue to tinker with it. But those are not the only planned changes.

I am going to try and narrow my focus a bit. Before my post were all over the place… about this, about that. While I’ll still probably post about anything that catches my fancy. I’m going to try to keep the theme of Geocaching more prevalent. Why? Because I like geocaching. Don’t hold me to any of this, it’s just something I’m going to try. Not to mention, I’m still not sure I have the time and energy to really to post anything. So, I might try doing more micro-blogging instead. Who knows?

So, I hope you like some of the changes. Feel free to leave comments or questions.

Hello world!

Published on February 6, 2006 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

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