Sorry for the delay in this post — I’ve been busy and a bit under the weather. More will be explained here . . .

All of Gina’s family was in town this past weekend and all of them had heard about this geocaching thing. I offered to take any or all of them on some caching trips. I had already picked some around Lake Zorinsky, since it’s close to our house and there are quite a few caches around there. Saturday was a beautiful day, and Gina’s two brothers and our brother-in-law volunteered to go out on a hunt. We found the two Sammy Chicken Legs caches on the southeast side of the park — both of them were easy to get to. We called ourselves “TheHaas and the Poss” on the logs and the website. Sunday was even nicer, and, again, the same brother-in-law and our sisters-in-law wanted to go. We called ourselves “TheHaas and the Outlaws”, since it was just the in-laws that wanted to go. This time, we went to the northwest side of the park, which I have never been before. The three caches were found were not so easy to get to — we had to do a lot of bushwacking to get there. But we were walking outside in our shortsleeves in January — what a feeling!

Alas, I didn’t think about my allergies while bushwaking on Sunday. On Monday, I had sore throat and just thought it was one of the colds going around. On Tuesday morning I woke up with a horrible sinus headache, called into work, and spent the rest of the morning in bed. So, even though it’s January, when walking in the weeds, I still need my allergy meds!

And then, just to get my geek on, I used the geo-map script to generate a map of the caches we found around Zorinsky. Yep, it’s a bit large. I used Tiger to generate the map, and it looks better than I thought it would. Of course, Tiger data and images are public domain so that’s about all I could use if I wanted to put it up on the web.