Treasures of our Town
Embark on an exhilarating voyage through the heart of America's captivating towns and cities with the enthralling travel podcast, "Treasures of our Town." Join your experienced hosts, Craig (Seemyshell) and Joshua (Geocaching Vlogger), as they unveil the hidden gems and extraordinary treasures that lie beyond the surface.
Delve into a world of cultural exploration as our hosts guide you through historical sites, natural splendours, and extraordinary local experiences. All their travels are guided by their love of outdoor games like Geocaching and Munzee. Whether you're a seasoned globetrotter or a curious beginner, our captivating city tours and off-the-beaten-path destinations will ignite your wanderlust and leave you inspired.
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Treasures of our Town
Patreon Q&A - A Potpourri Part 2
What happens when a mini-bank cache needs a car battery, and how does an Alaskan cruise tie into geocaching? These are just a couple of intriguing tales from our latest journey on Treasures of Our Town. Join us for a delightful conversation of our part 2 of the Potpourri series, where we answer your questions and share our travel dreams. We're buzzing with excitement about our upcoming adventure at the Texas Challenge Mega Event, a highlight in the geocaching world, and can't wait to bring you along through our stories and plans for the event.
Our exploration continues as we navigate the creative geocaching landscapes of West Virginia, marveling at the genius of West Virginia Tim's caches. From mini-banks to breathtaking views at Cache Across America, the journey is filled with adventure and surprise. We also take you on a non-geocaching tour, sharing our experiences with movie location pilgrimages and food and drink trails, all while intertwining these with our geocaching escapades. Ever thought of a geocaching-themed cruise? We brainstorm this exciting possibility and dream of sharing the adventure with you.
As we wrap up, we share the thrill of geocaching challenges that push our limits, highlighting cross-country quests and the camaraderie they inspire. Our heartfelt Thanksgiving tradition of watching "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" adds a personal touch to our episode, celebrating community pride and shared passions. Whether you're a geocaching enthusiast or love cinematic adventures, this episode promises a blend of excitement, nostalgia, and anticipation, inviting you to explore the treasures of our town and beyond.
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What the listeners at home don't realize is that Craig just made an edit right here because I had too much Dr Pepper and I had to pay.
Speaker 2:That's going to start the show. Okay.
Speaker 1:Do you love to travel?
Speaker 2:Do you love road trips?
Speaker 1:Do you love finding hidden treasures in towns all over the USA? Hi, I'm Joshua.
Speaker 2:And I'm Craig. Welcome to Treasures of Our Town. It's the podcast that explores unique and charming towns scattered throughout the United States.
Speaker 1:Guided by our love for location-based games like geocaching, join us as we venture into some of the country's most intriguing destinations, uncovering hidden gems and local secrets along the way.
Speaker 2:On today's episode. Josh, this is part two, part two of Potpourri, potpourri, whatever you want to say of all our patrons, all our patrons, Josh. They reached out to us again. They enjoyed it and we have to finish. Yes, we have to finish what we started with.
Speaker 1:Yes, you know, Potpourri is such a delicious smell and this is hopefully just a wonderful sweetness to your ears as you listen to our potpourri of questions from the patrons.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly right, exactly right. And before we get to that, though, josh, again, as always, delays and upgrades. Mate, do you want to start with that, or?
Speaker 1:You know, craig, yes, I will start. And you know, on this I will start. And you know, on this podcast we don't talk about the weather, but I'm going to. I'm going to because it's connected to my delay, uh, this evening as of the recording of this. We're down, we're now in december, right? Yes, and yeah here in the north we're in the teens Fahrenheit oh oh, oh.
Speaker 2:Is that what you meant by teens last night? Oh, I thought you meant, as in teenagers were invading your house.
Speaker 1:Well, that happened too. That actually happened too. My nephew and my niece were here, yeah, but that's not a delay.
Speaker 2:I always enjoy it when they visit.
Speaker 1:But no, we're in the teens.
Speaker 2:As far as temperature, it's getting cold here in minnesota, which has me itching already to get out of here yes, yes, yes, just get out of here head south head exactly, exactly, fly south in the winter, um, but meanwhile, josh, though as well see, a lot of people don't understand, but in australia we have, you know, there's four seasons every year. Well, that's divided up into in Australia, it's divided up into three months, you see. So the 1st of December is the 1st of summer in Australia.
Speaker 2:You see so we don't do the equinox thing like you guys do here. It kind of makes sense what you do here in regards to the equinox and how your systems are in place, whereas in Australia it's three months. Three months, the first of every month, the first of that month, the first of the month. So that's how it works.
Speaker 1:That makes a lot of sense. Which crazy is, it's not even winter here.
Speaker 2:No, I know, that's what I mean. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1:December 22nd, so it's not even winter, and I'm already wanting to get out of this state.
Speaker 2:And it's already summer in Australia, exactly right. So there you go. What's it going to be like for you in January, mate? It's going to be bad.
Speaker 1:We certainly have to escape, and I know you have some adventures ahead of you, I'm sure, and so do I, and that's actually part of my upgrade, so I'm going to roll right into my upgrade. Yeah, what's your upgrade? This is actually an upgrade slash announcement for both you and I. Yes, it is, it is official. We will be going to the texas challenge mega event slash block party event. Yeah, on the week weekend of march 15th and 16th. We'll actually be there between the 13th and the 16th, but, um, this is the oldest mega ever. Like. This is the oldest mega. Like this is the first mega.
Speaker 1:The first mega that ever was created was in texas, and so this is the big, like 25th anniversary celebration, the 23rd time they've done the texas challenge, and I'm excited because it's in a little town called Floresville. Floresville, texas. It is 45 minutes outside of San Antonio, which we have talked about on this podcast. I love visiting San Antonio, but Floresville is a nice town of 8,000 people. That's like, that's perfect. Like there are going to be so many hidden treasures there that we're going to uncover and discover, uncover, uncover Exactly many hidden treasures there that we're gonna uncover on earth and discover, uncover, uncover, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2:Meanwhile, if we're both going to be there, that means we're going to do like some sort of you know video, etc and maybe even a podcast or two, uh episode on too. So keep your eyes and ears out for that one. Um and josh, I've already got an idea for the actual. You know the edit of the video too. Oh, we might just you know. You know the tv show, I'll give it away. You know the tv show like storage wars, that sort of show yes, I know that show.
Speaker 1:What about? What about cash?
Speaker 2:wars where, because it's a challenge, you see you think about it, I can get. I can get, like you know, five or six different people who are doing the challenge individually, and if I can get some footage of them and if I can get some interviews with them as well, I can then do the edit. Josh, that's like storage wars but cache wars, and then you don't find out the actual total winner until the very end of the show. So that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1:I like that idea. We're going to have to get these five people. We're going to have to let them share their location on their phone so we can chase them down. So they'll be hunting for caches and we'll be hunting for them and I'll be this kind of like the host. Yes, yes, and I will. Uh, we'll feature floresville, the, the city, and we'll feature the event and yes, of course, we will do a podcast as well.
Speaker 2:But anyway, this is sort of my.
Speaker 1:I know you have other southern travels, uh, ahead of you, but but for me this is going to be probably my first chance to get out of Minnesota and I'm very excited about it, and so thank you. All the folks that are planning Texas Challenge, take a look at the webpage for Texas Challenge. I wish I had the. I don't have the GC number. We'll put it in the show notes, yeah, but they have a great week of events planned as they celebrate the big 23rd slash, 25th anniversary of geocaching.
Speaker 2:Exactly right, exactly right. Yeah, I'll be already down there. I'll be amongst it anyway, josh. So, yeah, I like the warmth, I like the warmth. So, meanwhile, my upgrade. I'll start with my upgrade first, and that is Thanksgiving. Happened between the last couple of episodes and you know what? It was my third one. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and why not let Thanksgiving be an upgrade for everyone out there? That's what I'll say. Spending time with family friends, eating some good food, cooking some good food. I'm the cook, josh, so I cook some good food, along with my mother-in-law as well, so helping her out in the kitchen. It was great times to had and um, and just even after, after you have that big lunch, watching like two or three people just literally doze off on the couch. That's great. You know your job's done. When that happens, you know that whole calmness. There's no stress. You know we need more of that in everyone's lives. I think so, yeah, so that was my upgrade, just thanks. Thanksgiving in general.
Speaker 1:Craig, so you don't have Thanksgiving, obviously in Australia. No, like what do you you know, you've experienced a lot of our holidays Like what do you think of Thanksgiving? Do you think it's like, yeah, this is a, this is a good holiday?
Speaker 2:I mean, I think it's, it's a it good holiday, for what a holiday is, and that is just to literally take time out. Stop, stop, think, be thankful and enjoy. You know what you actually have around you family and friends and food. You know what I mean. And because, let's be honest, josh, because there's some people out there who don't have any of that sort of stuff too. So, um, for those that don't, you know, try and work on some sort of way in order to make that occur, make some connections, you know, seek out some help and seek out some people. So, for me, thanksgiving is very much a deep, deep thought process of a holiday, as opposed to, like you know, halloween or Christmas or Easter, any of those other types. For me, thanksgiving is different again, and that's only what I've learned in the last three years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I really appreciate Thanksgiving because, as far as American holidays goes, it doesn't have as much pressure around it If you think about it. A lot of our other holidays there's a lot of pressure around it, and this is just about, yeah, like you said, enjoying a meal. I mean, gratitude is all a positive thing. Gratitude is very important in our lives. So, yeah, I am a big fan of Thanksgiving as well, very important in our lives. So, yeah, I am a big fan of Thanksgiving as well, and so it's really challenging for me to consider skipping it next year as I'm officially invited to Las Vegas by the Geocaching Podcast because they're going to do the ET Highway on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:So that's tough. It's tough to say to my family you know what? I'm gonna go hang out in the desert, uh, during thanksgiving and not be with you.
Speaker 2:But we'll see what happens that's the reason why I always say it's it's good to reflect and be thankful for family and friends, you see so you know, you can family and friends. That's the friends. Next year it could be the friends component as opposed to the family component that it was this year. So I'm only putting little twigs on the fire, josh. That's all.
Speaker 1:I'm doing, I hear it.
Speaker 2:Meanwhile, my delay, josh, is that I'm starting to strip down my car. When I say strip it down, I mean strip it of all the extra things that I've put in it, like for the camper van sort of style. Um, so I'm taking off the the roof mount stuff, I'm taking out the electricity, I'm taking out all that because I'm going to sell it next week to more of a dealer sort of thing. So it's a less of a price, but you know, um, it is what it is. You know, um, it is what it is. So it's easy way to get rid of it done and I'm not actually putting any hassle on anyone else if any other issues occur with it too. So I'd hate to sell it to someone, josh, and then then then buy it then then have all hassles too. So I'd rather just go through a dealer and let the dealer sort it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let them deal with it.
Speaker 2:Exactly yeah.
Speaker 1:And they, yeah, they know, they know what they're getting. And you know dealerships too. They have. You know, dealerships too. They have resources. Like most dealerships have a mechanic shop in there, so they can fix it for so much more than any individual would do Exactly. So that's a delay. But you know what? I think it's also kind of a little bit of an upgrade, because you're going to finally get that thing off your hands.
Speaker 2:Exactly right. Exactly right, and that's just before next week. I will fly out to Arizona to pick up the new van. The new van's already got a name and everything Josh, her name, it's a her. This one, her name's Tuesday. So there you go.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited for you. That's really amazing. Yes, yes, the journey begins.
Speaker 2:Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1:All right, josh, do you want to get a start on this? Do you want to discuss about what potpourri is again, or you want, yes, yes, potpourri again? We will. We will define it for you. The dictionary says potpourri is a mixture of dried petals and spices placed in a bowl or a small sack to perfume clothing or in a room. So today we hope to perfume your ears with the beautiful sounds of answering the questions from our patrons. We did this on the last episode and we're going to continue now. It's just a variety. It's a mishmash of questions travel related, and it bleeds into geocaching, which, of course, is also what this podcast is about, and we know that we, according to Good Pods, we are the number one geocaching podcast in the world.
Speaker 2:This year, exactly right. So thank you very much to Good Pods for their support. All right, josh, I'm going to get into the first one, and the first one for this episode is from Alison Burtman, and she goes straight into the geocaching. She wants to go straight into the caches.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:She says what about getting some talk about West Virginia, tim's geocaches and also Geo Woodstock for 2025. So yeah, geo Woodstock next year as well. Have you done any of the gadget caches themselves? And also, what about West Virginia's oldest, because you have to do that via atvs to get there, the alternative that sounds that sounds like a lot of fun actually.
Speaker 1:So the questions around west virginia tim. So if you're not a geocacher which there's probably a few of them out there west virginia tim is a very prolific geocache hider. He's hidden many geocaches in Martinsville, west Virginia, and there's some of the best geocaches out there Certainly one of the best series of geocaches out there, because they are gadget caches, which, if you don't know what a gadget cache, it's a cache that is easy to find, but there's a little trick to get into it. There's a little puzzle, a little field puzzle, to get into it. There's a little puzzle, a little field puzzle, to get into it, and so there are several in the West Virginia area. And because Geo Woodstock this May is happening in West Virginia, allison is asking is this worth it? Should we take some time to find West Virginia's Tim's geocaches?
Speaker 2:Because they are about an hour and a half away from the actual geo woodstock itself as well. So I mean you can either a go there, you know, before or after geo woodstock itself. I always say I'm an advocate for geo woodstock in terms of the actual day, the saturday, which geo would rule out anything, don't go anywhere. Go to the geo woodstock and that's it. You know, stay on site. You know, listen to our podcast. It's going to be recorded live on air et cetera, stuff like that too.
Speaker 2:So you know there's plenty to do on site and I suggest people always stay on site as much as they can for Geo Woodstock itself. But the days leading up to it, josh, you can get like a taste, a flavor taste of geocaching et cetera as you go through West Virginia and do West Virginia teams caches. I always do this anyway, normally, and so do you. I learned from you actually, and that is sort by favorite points, josh, put a minimum. Put a minimum on your list of, say, literally, if you're in West Virginia, 100 favorite points is a minimum and you will still get a good chunk of caches. Just saying, because some of these gadgets, josh, they take a long time to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah they take a long time to do when you take a bit, they take a bit, yeah, yeah, have you done a few of these at all?
Speaker 1:yeah, I've done a handful of west virginia tim's caches. I haven't done all of them. I actually just looked at the. There's actually a geo tour. There's actually an official geo tour that is connected with all, uh, several of west virginia tim's caches.
Speaker 1:But the one of the things about west virginia tim's caches, but the one of the things about west virginia tim's caches, is that they're really well done, they're they're well maintained and they're sturdy and they're well built. I have never, uh, done a west virginia tim cache and thought, boy, this one is really, you know, going downhill. He does such a great job, great job making them constructed so well. Yes, and what I really love about them is that you, as you do several of them, you kind of get into the mind of Tim, yes, and as you do them, they almost kind of get easier, because Tim is very much thinks outside the box and so, but there's, he has a style, and you're like, okay, I am now in the mind of west virginia, tim, and that is a really fun and beautiful, beautiful place to be.
Speaker 1:Um, so, yes, I, I enjoyed them. Um, they're the variety, like there's no cash, that is the same, while, while they have like a similar, like you know, as far as like style of how they are created like sturdy and they're all like a similar. Like you know, as far as like style of how they are created like sturdy and they're all like a little bit different, which is really really a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:Have you done them? Yes, yeah, I've done quite a few of them as well. I did them when I first came over here for a whole day myself and great caches Danny and Danny took me out and we did a whole heap of West Virginia Timms caches that they loved and and we did a whole heap of West Virginia Tim's caches that they loved and so it was good for me because they were on site with me so if I did actually need a hand or a hint in a direction that they could show me, so I never got frustrated with them, you see. So some of them can be a little bit daunting. You have to read a lot, you have to sort of get in there.
Speaker 2:But in saying that as well, I find where he's placed them, a lot of the people, like in terms of the so-called muggles, know already about them. They know about geocaching and some of them are around businesses. Then businesses have actually allowed to have it out there and they're proud to actually have the geocache in their parking lot or whatever and they take care of that cache as well. So I mean, I think one of my fun fine ones was it was a really nice constructed, uh like like letterbox sort of style um birdhouse, and it was in the exact shape and color and everything as the bank in which it was. In the parking lot of the bank, it had the bank's handwriting on the front. It had the stickers of the bank around it as well, so it was decorated as the bank. So it's like a mini bank.
Speaker 2:But what you had to do for this one, josh, is you had, you had these two little prongs that come out the side and you had to attach your battery to your car to these and if you attach them the correct way, the aerial comes up from the chimney area and out pops the little um, the little log book you see from the top, and then you swap them over and it goes back down. So just simple. Things like that sometimes are fantastic. So yeah, I've.
Speaker 1:I've done that one as well. I actually have a video of that one. That's fantastic and you're right, there's like a. I remember there's another one and they're all birdhouses, usually because he just feels like that's a great way to disguise a geocache. And one was like at a state farm insurance place and again he painted the birdhouse to look like a state farm.
Speaker 2:Like a good neighbor, exactly, exactly. But while you're there as well, and you're doing those caches, don't forget with Geo Woodstock, there's the cache across America. One, josh, right around the corner from Geo Woodstock as well. Oh, really, in Borgentown. Yes, have you done that one at all? I?
Speaker 1:have not. No, but I haven't done that one.
Speaker 2:It is a beautiful I've got a video of that one, Josh.
Speaker 1:Yes, I have a video of that one. We'll put them in the show notes.
Speaker 2:Finally, I can say it. I can actually say I've got a video rather than just you. Yeah, no, the West Virginia Cash Across America is an absolutely stunning walk. It is a bit of a walk, get some length there to it, but where you end up, you don't just end up with this humongous like a larger-than-life ammo can Like it is a big ammo can sort of size but you end up on this outcropping and overlooking this beautiful canyon Because they say West Virginia it's the mountains and the valleys. And, yeah, you end up on top of this mountain overlooking this beautiful valley, and it's just absolutely stunning. So don't forget the cash across America, west Virginia, while you're there, and just absolutely stunning. So don't forget the cash across america, west virginia, while you're there. And then they talk about, as well as I spoke about, the oldest in west virginia and that one there is in regards to the atv rides.
Speaker 2:Now, I do believe the people who are running geo woodstock are organizing, josh, they're organizing for those people who want to do it to be able to hire these all-terrain vehicles from a particular location and a place, and even if you can't drive one, you can be driven by one there as well, or team up with other people. So go on and check their website. Again, links in the description. But geowoodstockxxicom is their website. Make sure you go and check out their website and all the details are on their website. And don't forget as well, make sure you click your will attend because this is going to be a huge, huge event. Not many more people need to be on the log now, josh to either.
Speaker 1:Before it goes to the big g word the big giga the second ever giga event, possibly in america, and that's where we met for the first time. Remember that moment. It was beautiful.
Speaker 2:It was a beautiful moment not for that many people around us. Everyone around us was looking with strange eyes, but apart from that, that's okay they were a little weirded out, um, but yeah, um, alley, alley.
Speaker 1:So I I think you you've got something to look forward to if you want to get that oldest one. Um, to me it's a little intimidating to like. I've never actually driven an ATV, so it would be nice to go with somebody, depending on your experience, because people can, like, flip these things over, and they're not always but it'd be nice to be able to go with somebody that knows something about ATV instead of just doing this on your own.
Speaker 2:I find that this could just, josh, this could just be a smaller version of you, me and Tim when we did the geocac in Arizona recently as well. We were in that Jeep and we were like almost rock. What do you call it? Rock climbing or rock hopping in that Jeep?
Speaker 1:Yes, rock scrambling, whatever they call it yeah, something, whatever the term is for jeeping through rocks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, know I don't know the term, but yeah, that's what I feel like it could be, but on a smaller version, smaller scale. So maybe tim could be our driver ally, ally.
Speaker 1:We might need to do that with you, um, I have another thing just. I just have note about the west virginia tim, of course, geocaches. I did take a look at the West Virginia Tim geocaches. I did take a look at the GeoTour page on geocachingcom and the original GeoTour had 66 caches Currently. Right now a lot of them are disabled or archived, which I just have some curiosity around that. I don't know if they're listed. Maybe you know the answer to this question to you or um craig. If they're listed, um, on the geo tour page and some are disabled and you don't necessarily, if you find all the ones that are currently active, do you still get the souvenir?
Speaker 2:oh, that's, I don't know. I don't. I don't know that either. I haven't got an answer for you for that. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:So anyway, my tip for that? Either I haven't got an answer for you for that one, either, yeah, I don't know. So anyway, my tip for you, ali, is, yeah, take a look at the GeoTour if that's important to you to complete it. But I would also just search Tim's name and just look at Tim's caches West Virginia Tim's caches because there are probably a lot of good ones that he has hidden that aren't on the Geo Tour, and then I would sort them by favorite points.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, absolutely, absolutely. All right, we're going to move on now, josh, to our next one. Now, after our last episode, this person reached back out to us, josh, and he said we're talking about Juan Michael Tula. He said I like how Craig tried to pronounce my name in the latest episode. Josh, I know you love pop culture, so maybe you can tell him about the actor I was named after. Do you know that the actor that you were named after? No, that he was named after one, michael Tula. What actor? One Michael Tula? One Michael Vincent, sorry, who played Stringfellow?
Speaker 2:Hawk in the show Airwolf oh in Airwolf.
Speaker 1:Airwolf. He was named after, yeah, an actor from airwolf there you go.
Speaker 2:So how do I pronounce his name? I pronounce it wrong. I attempted to I don't know.
Speaker 1:Actually I still don't know j-a n yeah jan Jan.
Speaker 2:Jan Michael Tula? Maybe Jan Michael Tula.
Speaker 1:We're going to mess up again. He's going to send us another email.
Speaker 2:He really will. That's good, that's good, though. More encouragement, more reaching out, it's good, it's good. So there you go, anyway, jan, juan, jan, jan. He asked what are your favorite city, country or state featured scavenger hunt or trails or crawls. Now he says caveat, doesn't have to be related to ground speak, freeze, tag games or any location-based games. For example, he did the uh lunches and lagers tour in in the space coast, which is the home of the obviously dale and barb from space coast geocaching store. Um, but yeah, he did that one. So do you have any josh that you've done as a tour that's not actually related to geocaching or any you know mobile game base?
Speaker 1:yeah, he, he gave us a follow-up on the email about this, so he called on a couple that I was about to say. So, yeah, the last episode I talked about the thomas dambo stuff. Those are.
Speaker 1:Those are considered, you know, trails or they're considered tours in different cities, like yeah, so I thought the thomas dambo trolls would be a good example of this another one I thought of that is now retired, but sometimes state uh tourism agencies, they create their own sort of tours to explore their state.
Speaker 1:Yes, and so several years ago I did this like three different times. There were in our state. There was this tour called checkpoint minnesota, where they had these signs that were next to these checkpoint signs, next to significant things in minnesota, and what you did is you took a picture of yourself at the place, so it was kind of like a virtual. You uploaded it to the website, and every photo of yourself that you uploaded to the website you got points, and then you could redeem these points um, in like essentially a store, and I got like nice columbia boots, I got jackets, I've got that, I got backpacks. So these companies sponsored this, and so the more of these checkpoints you found, the more um points you got, and thus I got some really nice prizes. That's so, um, it's no more, unfortunately, but I think a lot of states or cities have these incentives for visiting different things in their towns yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:And if you need to know more, if you go to a town or a city or whatever more towns than cities uh, if you go to their visitor center, they normally have a visitor center. If you go to the visitor center, they'll either A they'll tell you if they've got, like some sort of tour of sorts or B they'll just give you the best places to eat and to drink and to see things, so places you wouldn't ordinarily go. So there you go. Myself, josh, I always enjoy anything to do with food or drink, like beer, etc. So I love a brewery tour. I really love brewery tours.
Speaker 2:Now I've been to several brewery tours. One was in flagstaff, arizona, um, like this year we've got brewery tours here as well, in in new jersey. But I do love again through app and I know it's a phone app and we shouldn't be talking about phone apps, because that's what he asked but Untappd has a brewery tour, sometimes in Untappd as well. That come out randomly too. So keep your eye out for that sort of stuff. But yeah, I love a brewery tour, josh, I really do.
Speaker 1:And he mentioned looking for ones that don't relate to geocaching or Munzee. However, a lot of these tours cross. So a lot of these tours and I have a perfect example of that that it's a tour without geocaching, without anything, or without Adventure Labs, but also you can complete the tour outside of that. So the one in flagstaff, for example, you like, I think it's connected to actually a website, so it was an adventure lab, but it was also something that they just set up themselves. So another example of that is the famous butler county donut trail, of course, which used to be an official GeoTour, but I looked at their website. It is still a tour that they do, and even when it was a geocaching tour, if you completed all the donut shops, you got a t-shirt. So they have kept that going, so it's no longer a GeoTour, but they have also kept the fact that if you visit all those donut places, you get a t-shirt.
Speaker 2:Well, that's another crossover that we did in that case.
Speaker 2:Well, josh, with the pizza tour that we did, yes, because again you don't have to be a geocacher to do the pizza tour and get a T-shirt. If you were a geocacher, you got a T-shirt and you got a coin, a geocoin. So you get two for one deal. So that's another one. That's the same sort of yeah, they cross over. And because they cross over so nicely too, let's be honest, they do, they do, they really do. So there you go. Thank you, juan michael, jan michael, but anyway, josh, we're going to move on now to a good friend of uh, of both of ours, to andy zook. Yes, you know, andy andy, I know andy andy.
Speaker 2:He says I like movie location episodes. I like movie locations first. He says, any episodes that you've done about visiting the real Punxsutawney, pennsylvania. Check out how they've embraced not just the movie but all about Groundhog Day. So he wants us to talk about movie locations, josh too.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, it wasn't really a question. He asked us a question. Yeah, it was like. Yeah, actually he was like how about visiting Pennsylvania?
Speaker 1:and I'm like yeah, I want to do it. So, yes, I, I would really love to visit the real Pexatawney, pennsylvania and experience the real Groundhog Day. Yeah, I would love to do that. And here's the thing about Andy. Andy is in the entertainment industry, so I I. That just gave me a great idea. We love talking. Let's do a whole episode. We love talking about movie locations or television show locations, and he has probably been a part of productions where he's actually been to some of these places, so I think we should have Andy on the show at some point.
Speaker 2:There you go, andy. You heard it here first, maybe before we even reach out to you that we can have you on the show come early 2025. Absolutely, we're going to get him on the show. Well, I mean, we did have Dave Barsky from dirty jobs. Have, um, dave barsky from dirty jobs? Oh, he was on the show too, josh, and he again, same thing we. He spoke to us in regards to his favorite locations of filming locations and why they were good locations outside of geocaching, which is great, which is really really cool. Um, mate, I would love to go to the rural punxsutawney pennsylvania as well. We've got a again another good friend of both of ours, josh as well, dan truck and miller the. He lives in Watsontown and he's a patron as well, and Watsontown is about two hours drive east, so if I was to see him again then, yeah, I could easily just go two hours east and see this Punxsutawney Pennsylvania as well.
Speaker 1:It's probably difficult to get a hotel anywhere near there during Groundhog Day, so we might have to sleep on Dan's farm two hours away and get up at like three in the morning and head over there.
Speaker 2:It wouldn't be hard to do because obviously the rooster you know cock-a-doodle-doo at 5 am.
Speaker 2:So, if you sleep through your alarm, then you'll be waking up early anyway. It also reminded me, josh, as well, of my recent trip when I was in the UK. I know it's outside the us, but I love the tv show ted lasso. Ted lasso it's on apple tv. It is a fantastic and it's a really a wholesome tv show.
Speaker 2:This one, josh, if you haven't seen it, um, yeah, absolutely, it's a must watch for me. And a quick rundown is that it's an. It's an american guy and he goes over to the UK to coach a soccer team in which he's got no idea about what soccer is about. And the woman who owns the soccer team, she wants to run the soccer team into the ground because it's her ex-husband's team, and so that's why she hires him. Push comes to shove. He does a really good job, surprisingly, and it's a really good, feel good sort of TV show.
Speaker 2:The whole show, josh, the entire show was filmed in one little area, one place called richmond in the uk, like a little richmond town, and so I did a tour with a tour guide around richmond and mate. It was fantastic. This tour guide knew everything, which she calls herself a ted head because it's ted lasser. So she's a ted head. Um, she knew every particular location, which episode was filmed at which location and which which scene. Even you know we. Oh, do you remember when they went down in the sewers here? And, yeah, this is, it's how they faked. They faked a sewer drain as well, because they didn't have sewer drains like that in the uk? They faked a sewer drain as well. So things like that as well. For me personally, it's not about the cashing, it's not about the munzee, it's more about getting outside and enjoying learning about how things are made on TV, on the big screen too. So, yeah, I really enjoyed that one. Ted Lasso, you haven't seen it. You've got to see that one.
Speaker 1:Josh, oh, I've seen the first season, but then my Apple need to get. I need to get back into it because I really do enjoy.
Speaker 2:I did enjoy that show you did the 60 day free trial exactly fair enough. What are some of your fun ones, josh?
Speaker 1:yeah, so, uh, most of the the locations that I've been to I've already talked about on the show, but I'm gonna I'm gonna list a few that I haven't been to that I would like to visit. So, uh, the back of the future shooting locations. I have visited doc's, uh, doc's house. I visited the the lone pine twin pine mall. So there's, those are two locations I had visited. However, there's lots of other places around there that I haven't visited. I haven't visited marty's house. I haven't visited um biff's biff's house, there are. There's also a, uh, I believe, a school where you can walk in, where they film the enchantment under the sea dance. So these are all. These are all in hollywood, and I would just, I would love to take a full tour of all the back the future sites. And then the other one is, uh, the karate kid which, um, you know, you and I visited that mural in, I think, encino, california that's right but I would love to visit the apartment.
Speaker 1:I would love to. There's lots of other places I'd like to visit. Uh, with the karate kid um brownsville, oregon. Have you seen the movie? Stand by me with um.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, yeah. With river With um. Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:With River Phoenix and uh yes, the guy Wesley Crusher. I can't remember his name.
Speaker 2:Was that found in Brownsville?
Speaker 1:Yes, Brownsville Oregon. But Brownsville Oregon is the spot of the train scene where they. They're on that, that train trestle, and they're worried about crossing it, and then the train comes and they're running, running, running. I think there's a geocache here there, because I watched a geocaching video where at that, there was, of course, a geocache in that spot. So I'd love to visit that.
Speaker 1:Um, I think you visited this, I think you visited this spot in forest gump yes, I did this beautiful place out in the middle of nowhere in utah, where he's running across the country and then he stops and he says the famous line I think I'll go home now. I'm a little bit tired.
Speaker 2:That's the one Mate. I'm telling you. That spot is absolutely stunning. It is in Utah and it is a straight line going down. You see the monoliths in the background. There is a lot of parking area off to the side, on each side of the road. There is people all over the road all the time. So if you're just driving for those, there's no one local that drives past.
Speaker 2:But still, you know people, just literally. You know what people like, josh, they don't care about some other people, so they just want to get the shot, and so they just want to get the shot, and so they'll stand in the middle of the road and they don't move for the cars. Even I'm like come on, people, just get your shot and go. But you know, some people are doing dances, some people are doing trying to do the run-up, and then they do the stop and they try and recreate, reenact the entire scene. And uh, of course, yeah, but all I did was I got a quick photo, josh, and then I did a top and bottom photo. So I did the. The top of the photo was the actual from the film and then the bottom was the photo that I took. So there you go.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, it's a beautiful place, the Forrest Gump one and Utah in general, just a beautiful state Again, a little five-star.
Speaker 2:There's not much around there, there's no actual caches, physical, but there's a five-star adventure lab there as well. Oh, there is A five-point adventure lab. Yeah, adventure life. Yeah, did you do?
Speaker 1:it? Did you do it? Yes, I did. Yeah. Were they forest gump themed? Yes, it was. Yeah, yeah, it was good it was. I need to go. Okay, I'm jealous um on the same um tom hanks train. Let me stay on that. Um. Have you seen the movie castaway please?
Speaker 2:yes, I've cast away.
Speaker 1:Okay, of course so at the end of castle wet cast away, he's at the, he's in the middle of the country at a fort, like there's an intersection in the middle of the road in the country. Yeah, he's, and a woman comes by, or a post post woman or something, yeah, and uh, he sees her, like he meets her, whatever right there, and then she heads down the road and it's kind of like he has it's like a fork in the road where he has to decide like where am I going with the rest of my life or whatever. And it's just this, in the middle of nowhere, two country roads that cross. It could be anywhere, yeah, but this is actual place in north texas that you can visit and it's kind of like the the crossroads um end of Castaway location.
Speaker 2:There you go. I think that'd be a cool one to visit.
Speaker 1:One more, oh sorry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to say it happens all the time, josh. In most 90% of these times there is a cache, a physical cache location there, or a pin or something there to prove to people like this is the spot you know and it reminds people like that's exactly where to go, and it reminds people that's exactly where to go and again, that's another reason why we love this game.
Speaker 1:One more, craig. One more Because you broke the rules. You broke the rules, you went to the UK.
Speaker 2:Where are you going?
Speaker 1:This is about the USA, but I'm going to break the rules too. I would love to go to Salzburg, austria, because that is one of the main areas that they recorded the movie the Sound of Music. Yes, and Craig, I've been closer there twice now. You know what I talked about. I took that sleep train. I pretty much took that sleep train. I slept right by it practically. No, I know it was a night so you wouldn't be able to sleep. Yeah, I know I would have had to stop and then get back on the train. Yeah, but in so, the sound of music is an incredible. It's classic movie, musical, julie anders. And here's the thing that's funny about it, because I know some people that have taken the sound of music tour. Um, in austria. It's mostly, uh, loved by americans yeah, of course, of course yeah, the austrians.
Speaker 1:They don't care about about sound of music for the most part, and so, um, there's actual bus tours where you hop on a bus and you know up on the screen they're showing clips of the movie, and then you get out of the bus and you go visit that spot and in between the different movie locations it's a sing-along. People are singing along in the bus together, the sound of music songs. This is something I want to do. I think that would just be beautiful exactly.
Speaker 2:You would need to take your time too, just because I know you being you. You enjoy filming yourself reenacting. Oh yes, you would have to be dancing, you would have to be singing, you'd have to be the hills would definitely be, alive. If you were there, I'll give you the hot tea.
Speaker 1:Oh, I just thought of another one and and this is my this is probably my best video on a movie location. Is I actually reenacted all of ferris bueller's day?
Speaker 2:off. Yes, you did yes the whole thing.
Speaker 1:And here's a fun fact I went to all the locations, uh, uh, filming locations of the movie. You know ferris bueller in the movie he does all these things in one day. Well, yeah, I found out that you cannot, you cannot possibly do all these things in one day. It took myself and tammy three days three days to complete ferris bueller's day off. Wow, but um craig, please put that video in the show notes. I just watched it last night because one of the locations was the house from planes, trains and automobiles, which I always watch um during thanksgiving time and uh, it's, it was edited not by me.
Speaker 1:You'll, you'll notice, you're like, wow, the edit's really good here. It was edited by somebody else and it wasn't even you, craig it was somebody else. This is before bc, before craig, so yes, exactly, um, but yes and it's so cool because that movie, ferris bueller's day off is basically one of the characters of the movie is the city of chicago. You get a good sense that there's a sears tower, now the willis tower, there's the museums, there's wrigley field um, it's, it's really. I really enjoyed doing all of those locations perfect.
Speaker 2:Perfect, we'll do, mate, we'll do. Emily reached out to us as well, um, and she spoke about the uh, the apps, etc. Now, we spoke about this last week, in last week's or last episode, I should say, and but she also uses now get this. She uses a thing, an app called Spot Hero, and it's great for reserving parking in large areas. She used it, josh, she used it in DC to make parking a breeze. So there you go, you've got Spot Hero. Check out Spot Hero. She also uses Auto Slash and that saved her money for car rentals or hire cars.
Speaker 1:Nice, there you go. So our patrons are now answering questions for other patrons. I love our community that we're creating here.
Speaker 2:Exactly exactly, all right, mate. Moving on, andy Zook and Mel Stowe both of these patrons as well reached out and had another question in regards to cruise ships. Have we been on any cruise ships? Now? Andy took a European cruise and visited eight, six countries, finding caches at every single stop. What are your experiences? Maybe reach out to Denise Canavan? We have to speak to Denise Canavan, who runs Caching Cruise Trips at geocachingadventuresllccom, so we might have to speak to her and see if we get her on the show one time too. Josh, yeah, that'd be great Cruising, josh, have you done it?
Speaker 1:I have not I want to, though I really really want to. My wife took her first cruise last year and now she's taking another one this year because she enjoyed it so much last year and now she's taking another one this year because she enjoyed it so much and she was. She was skeptical about about cruising, but she really, really enjoyed it, just because it's like super stress-free, right. Yeah, they just they give you everything you need. You can just relax and then, and then you know it's, it's a. I think I I've never taken a cruise, but I I what I've heard is like there's this like sense of when you're on the ship, everything's taken care of you Very relaxing, food, there's lots of stuff to do, but then the adventure can begin on the excursions, with geocaching, of course. Like Andy, six countries that's so cool. He got six souvenirs for that. Exactly this is something I want to do, craig, I know that you have done it.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I've only done it twice. I've done it once years and years ago, 20-plus years ago in Australia, before my geocaching time, and yeah, that was a really nice cruise. That was a very similar. It's like the cruise you see from Florida cruises it was hot weather, from Florida cruises, you know, it was hot weather, it was nice seas, we did some hop off on islands, you know, and we did some snorkeling, et cetera, around some islands. So it was one of those type of cruises. But I've also done the Alaska cruise as well.
Speaker 2:An Alaskan cruise, yes. Now, this Alaskan cruise is absolutely incredible. First and foremost, though, you get into a dome roof train from Anchorage all the way up to Denali. So the dome roof train, josh, you can actually see outside and you can see the non-existent wildlife. We didn't see any bears, we didn't see any moose, we didn't see anything at all all traveling up through Alaska, but anyway, you get up to Denali, and we stayed in Denali overnight as well and then you get the bus back down to Whittier, and then it was 10 nights cruising from Whittier to Vancouver, and that stops in places called Skagway, junee and Ketchikan as well. Those places, the way you stop land tours incredible, absolutely.
Speaker 2:I did a photography tour at one stop. I did like a food walking food tour at another stop, where I made this beautiful salmon roe stuff, like oh it's delicious, and then one of the other ones as well. I think this was one. Back in ketchikan they have the axe man show, josh, now, after seeing you throw an axe, because they asked they asked for volunteers from the audience to join in in axe throwing too. You would be ideal, you would win that hands down, the little axe show that they do, but they do a full axe show as well, and they teach you about back in the day, when there used to literally be a lot more logging people and a lot of axe men around, and how they used to log. And then they play the different logging games et cetera as well, and you sit on one side, you go for Team Red or team blue or blah blah. So it's a lot of fun, a lot of fun. So alaskan cruises. So there you go yeah, was that?
Speaker 1:that wasn't a geocaching cruise, that was just like a regular cruise for you regular cruise.
Speaker 2:Yeah, regular cruise, although, although, although, yes, some places there, when you go through, like glacier bay, because you, you actually go up to glacier bay and as you go up the bay itself, in into this sort of like a dead-end area, it's literally just all water.
Speaker 2:There's not one, but two glaciers, josh, one coming down one side, one coming down the other side. The boat stops because it can't go any further, and then the boat 360, around and around and around, really, really slow, so you can literally just stay on your own deck and you'll see one glacier, then you'll see the next glacier and it just goes around like a 360 degree view. So you can just sit there in the boat where you are. You don't have to go from one side of the boat to the other, um, and it just shows you around and, of course, there's not one but two earth caches there, see. So so, yeah, there is, there is earth caches along all the glaciers and stuff as well. So it wasn't a geocaching trip, but did I get geocaches while I was on the trip? Yes, I did.
Speaker 1:I've heard that on these Alaskan cruises that people can essentially do earth caches from a hot tub.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, you can.
Speaker 1:Be on a deck in a hot tub passing glaciers.
Speaker 2:Literally from one extreme to another. You're doing a glacier earth cache from the hot tub of a pool. So yeah, it's really really nice. So you know this.
Speaker 1:This brings up a very interesting question that I have for the patrons or anybody that's listening to this. Yeah, this is something that I want to do. It's on my bucket list. My wife is taking cruises with her friends. I want to take a cruise with my friend see my shell. So I'm wondering. I think maybe we should contact denise canavan. I think so and I would you be interested, listeners, in a treasures of our town sponsored trip where you would go with us on a geocaching trip? Because, um, I've heard of Denise before. She literally plans these. You're joining a cruise ship with other cruisers. Obviously, you're not going to fill a whole boat full of geocachers.
Speaker 2:No, no, no.
Speaker 1:But she plans it, and she plans it around the places, the excursions that geocachers would want to visit, and so I'm just curious, we should, maybe, craig, look into this. Uh, and because I, I would, I would love just to take a cruise, just you and I doing this, but but maybe, maybe we could bring some listeners along with us, a dozen, ten if that's something that you would be interested in, if you'd be interested in hanging out with us.
Speaker 1:You'd be hanging out with us for I don't know a week or so, and you know what would be really fun if we did something like that. We could, we could actually do a live show as a part of the cruise on the cruise ship and we could have. You know, even if it's just like five I mean, I'm dreaming small okay five people other than us, seven, I think. I think maybe 12 would be great, because it's like the 12 disciples, that's a good number. But, craig, do you think this would be something that could happen?
Speaker 2:100%, 100%, absolutely can happen. I mean, if you think about it, if our good friend Scott Burks over at the Geocaching Podcast can organize a turkey trip during Thanksgiving, going across the ET Highway, then we can organize this. Josh, Surely, surely.
Speaker 1:It'll be a little bit more expensive, probably than the ET Highway, but there are probably other geocachers like us that have wanted to do it, and I just think doing it with other people. And here's the cool thing. I'm sure there'll be parts where we will meet all together and socialize, but then there's a lot of parts of cruises that you can just do things on your own too, so you wouldn't necessarily be stuck with us the whole time. No, no, no, although we're pretty fun to travel with I mean, after all, we have a travel podcast.
Speaker 2:This is true, this is true. And if you don't believe us, you can just ask our good friend Tim as well. Minnesota Boy, he'll be able to vouch for us. So there you go, so.
Speaker 1:Craig, I'm thinking something. I have been to Alaska so I don't know if I want to do that again, I'm thinking something tropical, I'm thinking something warm, I'm thinking maybe Bahamas type, you know, one of those where you can hit several islands. Yes, yes, yes and um, you know, I'm from minnesota, I want to get somewhere warm, so exactly, I'd be open to other things.
Speaker 2:So we, we're going to talk, we're going to talk to denise, we'll talk, we're going to talk to keep keep you all posted and obviously you're going to get her on the show as well after we've organized things too, so that's absolutely that's a hundred percent tick.
Speaker 2:So from there. Meanwhile, just we've got also the happy ho dag christopher, yes, um he. Now this is geocaching. Back to geocaching. He said what is your favorite or most memorable place you've discovered because of geocaching? So that was a good. I think this is a good question. It raises the point because we always say you know, one of our favorite things about geocaching is the places it takes you, the locations. He's asking you what's your favorite? So there you go you what's your favorite.
Speaker 1:So there you go. Well, that's interesting because, um, I really tried to think about this question from two angles. Number one I mean I've discovered a lot of places through geocaching, yeah, but I'm wondering, I was, I answered this like an area that I wouldn't have gone and I almost discovered like by accident yeah because something geo-related was there.
Speaker 1:So I know the happy hoedag. He's from Wisconsin. So Waukesha, Wisconsin. I was just doing some caches right before the West Bend Cache Bash and I was in Waukesha because there were some highly favorited caches there and I had some time to kill and I noticed there was an adventure lab. And I discovered it was an adventure lab about Les Paul. Do you know who Les Paul is?
Speaker 2:Les Paul no.
Speaker 1:He is the inventor of Les Paul, the famous Les Paul guitars. Oh, okay, it's a very famous guitar. Well, waukesha, I found out, is actually his hometown. So it was a five stages. It took me through this lovely little town of Waukesha, um, and of just kind of through his life. I I would have no idea about this town and there was like a festival happening when I was there. It was like it was a big party and um, it was just, yeah, surprising, um, and I would not have discovered this little town and I wouldn't discover that this was like the less paul, the home of less paul, the famous less paul guitars. So that was one that came to mind that I've never, and also I'm trying to focus on things I haven't really talked about on this podcast yes, how about you?
Speaker 2:uh, me personally. It's one location that is thermopolis, in wyoming, a little town in wyoming, in the middle of literally the middle of wyoming, um is a place called. Now, I was there because of geocaching and I was there because a good friend of ours as well, smilemakers Dave at the time he lived in Thermopolis and so I was meeting up with him and also, obviously, geocaching at the time too. So that's the reason why geocaching brought me to Thermopolis. I wouldn't have gone there otherwise. Now, this place for me me personally it's all about that home, that small little hometown feel, but at the same time you've got the open space of wyoming. You see, there's there's not that many people there josh like in terms of the actual town numbers themselves. Now also, I love hot spring. You know me. I love a good bath. You know me in my absolute. I love a good soak. I could soak josh for two or three hours in a bath Easily.
Speaker 1:Turn into a prune.
Speaker 2:Speaking of which, I'll be doing that after we record. But anyway, getting back on track, and that is the hot. There's Hot Springs State Park is there, whereby you can literally have your dip in and out and everything else as well. But I've also now I've got an earth cache there too, josh. Nice, because I've got an earth cache there too, josh, because I loved it that much, you see. So I've now got an earth cache there. The earth cache talks about the minerals that form through these spouts of the underground tunnels. There's the Wind River Canyon there, josh. Now the Wind River Canyon literally was a canyon that was developed from Wind End River, so erosion was a canyon that was developed from Wind End River, so erosion.
Speaker 2:When I first got there, it was going on dusk and Smile Makers was there. I was there with him and another guy as well, and he said look at your app, craig. And I looked around and went oh, there's an FTF up here. He goes yes, there is. He placed it there, you see, just for us. But, josh, it was a four-and-a-half terrain, just for us. But, josh, it was a four-and-a-half terrain. We had to scale halfway up the actual embedded cliff face with no ropes or anything at all at dusk in order to get the ammo can. So, again, that was one of those things, josh, that will always in my mind, stick with me throughout my entire life. Hopefully, you know what I mean. It's one of those experiences that you have in life whereby you just I remember that that was a good time, that was a great time. So, yeah, that's mine, josh's the demopolis in Wyoming. Do you have any more?
Speaker 1:Yeah. Another one that came to mind was in Minnesota. We have a city called Alexandria, minnesota, and I knew about the town, alexandria, but I had not really spent much time there. And there's a you know how I love the big things right there's a big statue of the world's largest Viking, big Oli. So I was like I gotta visit Big Oli because it's a virtual, so I visit Big Oli. And then I realized that there's a museum next to Big Oli and the museum is about this years ago, like the 1900s, some farmer unearthed this old relic and this old relic had Viking writings on it in the middle of Minnesota Vikings, okay. And they were like these were vikings writings.
Speaker 1:And and they were like, oh my gosh, vikings visited minnesota before, even, yeah, before anything like well, like we're talking, I think like like eight, the eight hundreds or something like that, before any part of the british yeah, yeah, and the the theory is now it's contested because they think it might be a hoax.
Speaker 1:Oh right, it's still contested. Yeah, um, because they've carbon dated it and all it goes all back and forth anyway. But it showed this museum was all about that. That fame, this thing that a guy found in a field in the middle of minnesota and they the, is that the Vikings went through the Great Lakes and followed the rivers all the way to this spot in the middle of Minnesota and for some reason, some of them visited there, stopped there and let's do our mark.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fascinating history or, I don't know, could have been fake news from the 800s.
Speaker 2:Either way, it's good to know. It's good to know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it was fascinating. You know I love my museums, and just learning about the fact that the Vikings were here probably before any of us were here, it was fascinating. Alexandria, minnesota, beautiful little town.
Speaker 2:There you go. Do you have any more, or can we move on Because we've got one last?
Speaker 1:let's move on let's move on.
Speaker 2:Let's move on. Last and but definitely not least, jamie, the motor rimba man. He's, uh, he's, he's replied again. He's asking, and I thought I thought we'll leave this one because it's a good one, it's a quick one. He says any crazy challenge, geocaches that you've done or you haven't done but would like to, that require traveling of some sort. Uh, for instance, he completed the nine state challenge, gc4, pzck, where you must visit nine different states in 24 hours, nine states in 24 hours and find at least one cache in each state. At the same time, josh, he did the 24 hour challenge, which is gc3dy2a, which requires at least one cache every hour for 24 hours oh, I wonder how many naps he took.
Speaker 2:I know, I know I mean, look, let's be honest, a lot of these geocaching is different. This is where geocaching is different to munzee is because it is more reliant upon, on a system you know, um, you don't have, whereas munzee, you literally have to be in that location at that time to cap it and that it's logged at that time and location, whereas, uh, yeah, the geocaching is more on a system, wise. But have you done anything like that, josh, in terms of, like, traveling, uh, challenge cash?
Speaker 1:sorts. So I'll just say I'm not a big um challenge casher oh yeah, I'm just not, because a lot, of, a lot of them involve like numbers and you know I'm not a big numbers guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, however, unless the numbers, unless the numbers are favorite point numbers, then you're a big number.
Speaker 1:This is true, or souvenir or souvenir numbers, souvenirs collected yes, that's important to me. Um, we all have our things we love. Anyway, I started geocaching in 2008, so around 2009, there was a uh, a challenge of 100 caches. Now this isn't going to sound craig, this is not going to sound like very difficult, but in 2009 yeah, 2009.
Speaker 1:This was very challenging 15 100 geocaches yeah, 100 geocaches in three states in 24 hours. This is the challenge of that. The first time I attempted it. So I tried minnesota, wisconsin, iowa. The first time we attempted this, we failed. How could you?
Speaker 2:fail how?
Speaker 1:because we didn't, we ran out of time. Oh, we found a lot of caches in the Minnesota area. We strapped bikes to the back, you got to remember. I didn't even have any power trails, so we were just finding random parks that had like five caches each and then, once we hit like 75 caches, we bolted for Wisconsin, found like one or two wisconsin, and then we had to bolt to iowa. So you know this challenge that jamie is talking about nine state challenge in 24 hours like that. That's way easier on the west coast yeah, I'm sorry, the east coast, east coast than it is in the midwest. So I I failed this challenge. I failed this challenge and we didn't get 100. So I did it again, like a couple of years later, and we completed it.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean on the East, josh, you could literally do New Jersey, Delaware, west Virginia, that sort of. You can do that in an hour. You know you can do four in Pennsylvania you can do Pennsylvania, delaware and.
Speaker 2:New Jersey, literally in five minutes, to be honest, with you, right, right, right on the corner of it. So there you go, mine, josh, mine was back in Australia. Mine is GC6VF7W. I had to look it up. It is now archived because the owners have moved, but it's called the Australia All Over Challenge. Now, when this first came out, it was basically find one cache in every single state or territory of australia and there's eight and australia's the same size as the us, but find one cache in every single state and territory in one calendar year. When it first came out, the reviewer didn't realize at the time and people complained whatever some you know as they do, uh, and apparently it wasn't allowed to be a time constraint on it, so they couldn't do it one year.
Speaker 2:so they've changed it up and they said um, like you know every state and territory in australia. But what they did, josh, for those of us who want that challenge, still that in one calendar year challenge they actually did like an honor roll on the cash page. So if you did it and you qualified in that one calendar year, you got got on that honor roll. Josh, I am on that honor roll. I'll just say, yes, now there's 24 people on that honor roll in five years. So that's how quite difficult it is too. So only 24 cashers in five years. That that was out or on that honor roll. That's got to be tough. So there you go, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I have an idea for a challenge. Cash you ready for it? Yeah, so there's a virtual cache in Key West. There's that big marker.
Speaker 2:Have you been down to Key West, the big marker, which is the most southern? I haven't been yet, but I've seen several photos and videos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so there's a marker that marks this most southern spot of the contiguous, the contiguous, the 48 states? Yeah, because I believe, I believe hawaii is actually farther south than that, um, and uh, obviously alaska is farther north, um, and so there's a marker there. It's been a virtual that's been there for a long time. Well recently now, there is now a virtual um that is marking the most northern spot in the contiguous 48 states. And it's interesting, craig, because the markers look they're twins. The twin markers. They look the same. I think they're a little different colors, but they look the same. Yeah, so somebody hit a virtual there. All right, this is a challenge for our listeners. Wouldn't it be cool to have a challenge where you have to find that most southern one and the most northern one and then somebody puts a challenge cache that is directly in between the two of them, right?
Speaker 1:in the middle, like the halfway point between them. Wouldn't that be a good idea for a challenge?
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and do it in 24 hours. You have to do that in 24 hours. Find in in 24 hours. You have to do that in 24 hours.
Speaker 1:I'm both in 24 hours you could do it.
Speaker 2:You probably have to fly oh yeah, you'd have to fly, absolutely have to fly. No, no, you couldn't do it with a time frame anymore now, so you can't do things with time frames like that, unfortunately, anymore but yeah, I think that would be a uh interesting challenge yes, but right in the middle makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, any of you out there. It might exist already, but any of you out there, um, you can steal the idea, make it happen. Make it happen.
Speaker 2:You could only you could only make it happen if you lived directly in the middle of between the two. That's the only time you could actually do it. Because you have to, because you have to maintain the cash josh you can't live too far away from where you hide a cache.
Speaker 1:Or find something that lives close to it.
Speaker 2:Find a farmer of some sort. Can we hide this ammo? Can in your field, please, sir.
Speaker 1:It's probably in the middle of, like the Appalachian Mountains or something.
Speaker 2:Exactly. We're going to have to look. We're going to look after this episode. We'll give you that. Meanwhile, josh, we're going to end it there. That was our last question. So that was good, did you enjoy?
Speaker 1:this Patreon? Yeah, I enjoyed the beautiful smell, the beautiful potpourri of questions.
Speaker 2:Potpourri, exactly Meanwhile, josh. We are always looking for questions. We're looking for thought ideas in terms of shows etc. How can people reach out to us if they've got an idea for a show or a thought process or even just a normal question?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they can reach out to us at treasuresovertownpodcasts at gmailcom. You can reach out to us there, or you can follow us on Facebook, instagram, x or YouTube, so you can reach out to us in any of those locations.
Speaker 2:Exactly, or, josh, if they want to be like inside, inside the loop, the inner circle, as scott burke's likes to say, how can they become one of our patrons as well?
Speaker 1:yes, um, this podcast is completely patron supported, so we really appreciate all the support of our patrons. So if you're interested in joining us, um, and maybe don't know, maybe you get inner details about our future cruise. Yeah, you might know about our cruise. You might be able to sign up for our cruise before anybody else. I'm totally just making stuff up right now I don't know, but that could be If you want to support us, and we also provide like hidden nuggets, hidden treasures that are only for our patrons. So you can consider following us or supporting us at patreoncom. Backslash treasures of our town.
Speaker 2:So that's our show for today. Please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcasting app.
Speaker 1:And again, josh, as always may your travels always lead you to the most unexpected and amazing hidden gems around the world. See you next time, everybody, stay warm, stay warm, bye. She didn't get it in I know, I know you didn't even give me a hint during the podcast you watched planes, trains and automobiles last night on thanksgiving, you shared it.
Speaker 2:You shared it, josh, with your, your fans, etc. On instagram stories, I reshared it on uh, on treasures of our town.
Speaker 1:He didn't get it in, but guess what it is in, because you're gonna put this segment in the podcast. Will you do that for us?
Speaker 2:I'll do that. I'll not do it for. I'll do it for you, josh, I'll do it for you. So if you're still listening to this, then you're one of the very few that listened to the episode all the way through yeah, and you know, you know I'm proud of my town, craig's proud of his town, because you know what?
Speaker 1:that's a rare thing these days. It's a damn rare things these days thanks for listening, guys.
Speaker 2:You did bye.
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