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06 September 2010 Written by  prodrive

[Logs em destaque] RavenMaster & Uindinha found St Mungo's

Found it RavenMaster & Uindinha found St Mungo's

Our 1000th cache… What can we say about this adventure so far?...
It all started in 2007 (in 2006 we registered and started reading about the hobby/game but we didn't try it) when we searched for Gulbenkian (GCKCJ9) and did not find it. Some minutes later, we tried another cache in the area and found our first one, with a very appropriate name, FTF!! FTF!! FTF!! (GCVYZR) owned by our current reviewer.

The rest of 2007 and 2008 passed very quickly, one cache here and there, very spontaneously.

2009 started very slowly but in May the addiction 'glued' to us. That was the month that we searched (and found) more caches so far. July was a scale breaker, with more caches on a month than on the past two years together. August wasn't bad, helped by our holidays in Ireland (where we found the first geocache hidden in Europe still active), we had a break in September but October was the craziest. Some geocaching events got in the way and we reached the personal best of 139 caches in a month (still to be beaten). That was one of the few months (December was the other) that we passed the 100 mark. November was average for our actual game style.

In 2010 we started by placing some goals, like doing the 1000 milestone by August.

January wasn't bad, February was very good (8 days, 66 caches), we can't complain about March, April was the high score of the year so far (77) and on May we slowed down to only 9 caches. In June we full charged to pick up the pace because the clock was ticking and August was on the corner. On July RavenMaster had a little problem on the foot, nevertheless, 7 caches where found.

In August we had a goal to reach! With our vacations scheduled to Scotland, 'why not!'. The race was on, we had to go to Scotland with enough breathe space to reach the milestone there. With a powertrail to finish and some well build roadbooks, we used more than ever the nearby caches functionality. Everywhere we went we searched for caches in the area. Even in the day of the trip we found five caches in Portugal plus another one shortly after landing, beating our old record of 'more kms on a day between caches' With 986 (987 counting the Scottish one) caches found, it was clear that the milestone was now easy to reach, even though we are not 'hardcore geocachers'.

Off course we looked at the map and wondered where it would be fun to do the 1000 cache. The only webcam cache in Scotland (easily reachable to us), that would also be our first on this kind? One of the Loch Ness caches, while we were searching for Nessie? One of the capital caches, where we will spend most of our time? No, faith brought us to Glasgow (faith and RavenMasters will to buy a Celtic T-Shirt on the stadium ) and to this cache.

We could forge the logs and pretend it was on another 'special' cache but why? This is special!!! First, it's placed on a must visit place for Uindinha, due to her professional interests. This was one of three places that we marked on the 'want to see in Glasgow' list. Second, it's not a very different or original container, but it's the one possible for the place and conditions. Third, what the heck, does it matter??! What really matters is that four years have passed and we 'finally' reached the 1000 milestone.

Some really good friendships were built thanks to Geocaching and that's what we are thankful for. The good times we spend in the hunt, the joy off finding another one, the laughs we had together (this could go on all night)… Thanks to everyone who shared this four years with us and we know there's much more to come.

PS: I believe this is by far our biggest log and the most touching one



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