I usually don’t post about my own geocaches, but this new one has a story that took awhile to track down. It began when I read that in 1908 Mabel Cramer had worn a bathing suit that shocked people near where I now live. She set the “smart set agog.”

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Before taking a holiday break until the new year, we said Ho Ho Ho at the North Pole and recalled the story of the Santa Within.

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Sometimes when I come across discoveries like this, I wonder when someone will pick up the geocache that was left in the bottom of the Pacific. I seem to recall that the cache was archived, but it still would get an interesting reaction.

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In the desert of California, near Slab City, Salvation Mountain has a message that God is Love. It has been called a national treasure.

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When there are no caches on a hike, we can look for mushrooms. Photos only.

A little early to avoid the holiday rush, this entry is about Simon Rodia’s Dream, to create something big. He had an archetypal calling to build the Watts Towers. Thoughts about a virtual geocache.

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In Portland, a geocache (Poetry in Motion) asked finders to write a poetic log. Somehow, I always take the bait. This one started off with finding a paper scrap that I used to write my name for another cache.

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My caching profile (geodarts) features Jökulsárlón, the glacier lagoon in Iceland. We returned to the area to visit an Ice Cave and the Diamond Beach where ice has washed to shore next to the lagoon

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The Mojave Phone Booth virtual geocache is about more than a booth that is no longer in the desert. It is about a booth that is no longer in the desert. There is a difference.

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The Iceland Noir writing festival was extraordinary both for the writers (including George R. R. Martin) and the country. But I caught the fly just in time for a hard flight gone. So my latest Caching diary focus out trip there when we stopped in Portland.

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While we came to Iceland for the Noir festival, the sights included geocaches and related places around Reykjavik. The Unknown Bureaucrat, Civil Disobedience, Sun Voyager

It had been years since we hiked the Pomo trail on the Sonoma coast. A good place to breathe deep and find a few caches. But mostly the breath, following it across ridges and taking in the area.

A hoosegow, in every sense of the word, at Clifton AZ. But before leaving town we were invited to see the old union hall with beautiful murals from the 1986 copper strike. Another geocaching diary.

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The Machado Postpiles: A Legend in the Sierra. More than a geocaching adventure, it reaches beyond time, and guards its own mystery.

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It’s almost Halloween. Things discovered while caching