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.
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Treasures of our Town
The US Oldest Geocaches and the Local Treasures Near Them.
In this episode of Treasures of Our Town, hosts Joshua and Craig explore the unique and charming towns across the USA, focusing on the oldest active geocaches. They share their experiences from the recent BamaRama mega event, discuss the significance of geocaching, and highlight the hidden gems surrounding these historical caches. The conversation is filled with personal anecdotes, travel tips, and insights into the geocaching community. In this conversation, Joshua and Craig explore various geocaching locations across the United States, sharing personal experiences and insights about the unique challenges and rewards of each site. They discuss the beauty of Oregon's wilderness, the historical significance of caches in Illinois, and the vibrant culture of Chicago. The conversation also delves into spooky adventures in New York and the unique charm of Kansas City, culminating in a thrilling tale of swimming in a snowy pond during a geocaching trip. In this episode, Joshua and Craig discuss their experiences with hiking, geocaching, and exploring unique roadside attractions across the United States. They share stories about high-altitude hikes, local museums, and the thrill of finding hidden caches. The conversation also delves into local legends like the Mogollon Monster, the quirky UFO Watchtower, and the impressive Bishop's Castle. Listeners are encouraged to explore these hidden gems and enjoy the beauty of nature and adventure.
ShowNotes
I was just going to say, before you move on, that kind of sounds like my nude cash video that's recently published on my channel as well. I was more thinking of the six-inch biceps, but then you kept on going on about. The hair was the main thing. It was pretty hairy.
Speaker 2:Do you love to travel, do you?
Speaker 1:love to travel. Do you love road trips?
Speaker 2:Do you love finding hidden treasures in towns all over the USA? Hi, I'm Joshua.
Speaker 1:And I'm Craig. Welcome to Treasures of Our Town.
Speaker 2:It's the podcast that explores the unique and charming towns scattered throughout the United States, 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 1:On today's episode, I've been so busy, so so busy down here in Alabama that Josh yes, the man, the Joshua, the geocaching vlogger he's done all the research for me today as well, and we're going to talk all about the USA's oldest active geocachers. But also, josh, you picked up all the surrounding things, like the tourist attractions around them as well.
Speaker 2:Yes, if people are going to go to the oldest geocaches in the United States, they can't just go to the geocache. There's tons of other things that they could do. They can make a whole trip visiting one of these geocaches and we are a travel podcast after all one of these geocaches, so, and we are a travel podcast after all. So I thought this would be. This is very much a geocaching guided travel podcast show today.
Speaker 1:This is going to be a heavy geocache show as well. So you know, those of you out there who are inclined to geocaching, then you know, I think you'll still like it, because of what's around the area too, josh. So I like that. I like that for sure. But as always, josh, as always, I can't, I can't, I can't. Just wait, I got to get right into it. Delays and upgrades. Delays and upgrades. Josh, who's going to go first and with what?
Speaker 1:Well, you got to go first, because you have been in the thick of it for 10 days, man. I I'm telling you now. I thought about it today when you said to me. I was actually so, as we record this very, very rare, but we're recording this very, very late. It is sunday night, like we're talking, like josh, it's it's seven hours before the show goes live on the podcast itself that we're actually recording. It's seven hours. I'm not gonna get any sleep tonight, josh, for the edit anyway. But yeah, I've been thinking about it all day today at BamaRama, the big mega event, and I don't really have a delay per se. All I'll say is this that I am buggered, slash, tired for you Americans after a big 10 days of geo parties 10 days and all those events.
Speaker 2:like I've been to Bama Rama, they know how to party down there. So I am sure you are quite, quite buggered.
Speaker 1:So that's your delay, that you're just exhausted. I'm just exhausted. Yeah, that's my delay. It's a hard delay to have let's be honest.
Speaker 2:Yes, well, my delay is that I have serious, serious fomo of the amorama, as I am here in the Minnesota tundra. It is current seven degrees here and boy, boy, I really, really missed. I missed it as I was watching all your stuff on social media. I saw parades, I saw our friend Brandon Giles do the do the great balls of fire. This time he actually started his piano on fire which we missed last time.
Speaker 2:We did. Yes, I missed a lot, so that's got to be your upgrade. Craig, tell us a little bit about BamaRama 100% Okay.
Speaker 1:Just a small twinkling on BamaRama, josh, and that is this it is 10 days of lead-up events, not including the BamaRama, the big mega itself, lead-up events, not including the BamaRama, the big mega itself. Lead-up events is 10 days. They start off with one event on the first day and then two events every day after that. So not one event each day, no, no, two events every single day In total, josh. I'm talking two CETOs, I'm talking two community celebration events and then 10 events before the big block party and, of course, then there's an event tomorrow saying goodbye. So, yes, that's the way it is up here, down here in bamarama, yeah, yep, yep, but but I will say it was fantastic. The people here are brilliant. Uh, it's really really nice. Um, I'm gonna let something leak right here right now, just just for our people, our listeners 2026, bama Rama 2026,. It's going to involve, see, my Shell. That's right, myself will be on the committee for 2026, bama Rama 2026. I'm on the committee. I got myself on the committee, nice, I've got some ideas, and the committee were happy to have me on too. So I've been hanging out with the committee part of the committee all week long, or 10 days long too. The two Laura's had three, three bonfire, official bonfire events at their property, a couple of unofficial ones as well. I will say that too, man, these guys down here here, they do know how to party, but but but I will say, I will say again, outside of geocaching, because this is not just about geocaching, but outside of geocaching, our friend brandon giles, at two weeks ago, josh, he reached out to you and I see he sent us an email. He then followed up with a Facebook messenger message as well, saying guys, thank you so much. I've just listened to the episodes from last year and how your kind words and your experiences from an audience member really what do you say like it pleasures him. So then, you know that sort of stuff and if you're ever, if you're ever back in this area, let me know. I didn't, I didn't let him know. I thought, no, no, I'll look at where he's playing.
Speaker 1:So this time when I managed to get to him, it was a Friday night. He was playing in a very subtle lounge bar. Josh, it wasn't the floor, obama, it was not the floribama, so the electricity was not there. As much, as much and as much. But you know what, he as much, but you know what? Because you know what he's like. He creates his own, he creates his own buzz.
Speaker 1:And yes, josh, I waited, I waited with bated breath someone. He turned around and said any request? And some guy said great balls of fire. And I went, oh, I said here we go. I was with a couple of friends I I said here we go, here we go, josh.
Speaker 1:He stripped the top off and I thought he's going to do it. He's going to do it, he's going to do it. So I got my phone ready. He put the lighter fluid on top. He stands up as well, starts playing, starts singing great balls of fire, keyboard lights up with the lighter fluid and then slowly, slowly, dies down as he keeps playing away and bashing at those keys, you know. So I spoke to him at his interval and I reached out and I said you know, craig, you know from Treasures of Our Town and you know, thank you so much for your message. You know, thank you for listening. And he's like no, no, thank you so much for actually talking about him as well. Now I asked him. I said I finally saw you with the light-up keyboard. He said Floribama don't allow it. But apparently he played at Floribama last week and he did it and got in trouble, so he went.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just going to do it. That's what Jerry Lee Lewis would do.
Speaker 1:Exactly exactly he went. No, I'm just gonna do that's what jerry lee lewis would do, exactly exactly so, uh, yeah, if you don't know who brendan joel is, no, yeah, yeah, if you don't know who brendan joel is, I'll put a link absolutely in our show notes to him and all his social media stuff as well. So that's anyway, josh. That's my big, big, big upgrades for this last two weeks, and I am tired Wow.
Speaker 2:I did see a photo of a giant life-size Monopoly board. Oh yes, Is that true.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes. So what happened is, as part of BamaRama for this year, the theme was board games, and so every single event we went to, we had to sign the board game board for that event, whether it be trap or Scrabble. We actually played human Scrabbles as well, whereby we all had a letter each and we had to make up words and the biggest word, because they have these things called Bama Bucks, and so you win these Bama Bucks which you can then turn in for prizes back at the big event. So, all week long, get bamabucks, bamabucks, bamabucks and uh. So yeah, it was all um board game themed, and so this what they did, josh, incredible they made an actual human-sized uh monopoly board made out of uh portable bird um birdhouses, and each birdhouse was its own gadget cache Inside.
Speaker 1:Each of those bird houses was a number. Once you got in was a number. Once you get that number, you then have five-stage adventure labs one, two, three, four, five-stage adventure labs for each side itself, and then you have another one for overall for the adventure labs. A little bit of math, a little bit of math to work it all out, but it is possible. I'm saying it took probably about 45 minutes to an hour to actually complete it properly, if you were with a group of people completing it properly, 45 minutes to an hour, but in that timeframe you got five full. Well, it was four, five stage. No, actually, no, sorry, I was wrong Four 10 stage adventure labs, plus an extra bonus to 10 stage 50 adventure labs in that hour. So yes, yes, yes, oh, that's so awesome.
Speaker 2:Incredible. And it sounds so creative too. That's super creative. I love that, Josh.
Speaker 1:they even had a jail. They even had a jail in the corner, like go to jail, go directly to jail, and you had to get in the jail. You had to actually get into the side of the jail to unlock the code for the jail too, which is really awesome.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, that's so fun. So, Craig, do you know the theme for next year's? Have they announced?
Speaker 1:that? Yes, they have announced it. Of course, as always, they announced it at the end of it, and I was part of the theme announcement this time, josh, because I was proudly displaying my Australian flag, my country flag, and the reason for it is because I ran around the audience as he said what it was and it is the Olympics, so it is Olympic-themed for next year. It is in February next year as well, which is in actually the same timeframe as the Winter Olympics, so they're having it at the same time as the Winter Olympics. They're also including again the big Mardi Gras parade that you saw on my social media. We walked alongside the floats as they're dancing alongside the floats, so they're chucking the beads out, chucking the toys. I've never seen anything like this, josh. We don't have that in Australia. Not at all's insane, insane that's so cool.
Speaker 2:I saw you with captain math running, captain math running by all the all the floats man, that guy can move for his age I'm telling you now I I think I even said it too.
Speaker 1:I said, like you know, this is a math teacher, but he's a fit math teacher because he had me trying to keep up with him running. Um, if you haven't seen, is a math teacher, but he's a fit math teacher because he had me trying to keep up with him running. If you haven't seen that it's on, I believe. It's a worldwide geocaching Facebook page and he's one of the Facebook page creators slash, you know admins, and so he's allowed to go live with that, and so he went live with that with me, asked me as well. I'm going to say as well Josh, josh. A big, huge shout out to captain math. At this event, he really turned on the stars. There was even a captain math um gadget cache created for him and it's his full face painted like captain math. It looks exactly like him, and he was so proud to get ftf on it too. So, yeah, yeah, they love captain they love him.
Speaker 2:Denny, that kind of reminds me of that gadget cache with the bad scientists with the marbles that we saw last year. Remember that one? Yes, yes, yeah, very similar to that. Bad scientists on it.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yes, exactly, exactly. Anyway, that's enough of my upgrade, because I'm telling you now it's a lot, it's a lot. All I'll say is you have not been to BamaRama Mega events, then you need to get to 2026. It's going to be huge. I'm part of the team so I can tell you now it is going to be huge. I might be able to link a few things here and there coming up. You really, really can, if you're a snowbird or retired, if you can get here for the start of the, the lead-up events. It's a fun time, josh, an absolutely fun time.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, yeah well, I'm not going to make a mistake and not go next year, so I'm going to make a make it a priority. They are so, they are so creative and they're just such a fun group of people down there. So, yeah, yep yep, okay, should we get into our topic?
Speaker 1:well, well, did you? Did you give me your upgrade? You didn't give me your upgrade. You're too busy, oh sure what's yours.
Speaker 2:My upgrade is so not as cool as yours, so it's just it's your upgrade.
Speaker 1:It's not not mine, it's yours mate. It's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 2:Okay I did get outside this weekend, believe it or not, it's. It was like it's frigid, but I got out and I spent some time with our friend minnesota boy, minnesota boy, minnesota bray, his brother gravity bear and, yes, our friend courtney, at mecca mn. And we went to a Munzee event together, oh nice. We went to a brewery together.
Speaker 2:Wow see that's fun. I re-qualified for the Jasmer cache and they helped me get a tree climb cache, but I didn't even have to climb. My video is in the show notes. You can see it by my upgrade of what I did this weekend. Not quite as cool as Bamorama, but still I was able to get outside and get some fresh air, so that's good.
Speaker 1:And it's cool in other ways, in terms of temperature rather than coolness, as in quality Very cool. Speaking of cool, Josh, apparently these oldest caches that we're going to talk about today are pretty cool as well. Tell us a little bit about how you researched and what you did to get them all.
Speaker 2:Well, I just thought that we would highlight some of these premier caches. If you're not a geocacher, one of the goals of geocachers are to try to find these old, old geocaches, especially since geocaching is 25 years old. All the geocaches that we're mentioning on the show today are 25 years old. They have been there for 25 years. At the very birth of geocaching which means at the very birth of geocaching it was mostly out in the woods sort of sport. So the interesting thing about these geocaches, these 10 active old geocaches, is that they're pretty much Craig in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2:There is not much else around them at all. But it got me thinking okay, they're in the middle of nowhere, but there's got to be some hidden gems around these places. So I did some research around the 30 mile, 30 miles ish driving area of each of these and I couldn't actually I had to expand it almost in two hours and in some cases because some of these were literally in the middle of nowhere. But I thought it'd be fun to talk about these old caches and talk about some of the things around them to travel to Yep, yep, perfect, perfect.
Speaker 1:And so some of these things and we're talking some, as you said before, josh well, they're old caches, 25 years old. Now again, if you're not a geocacher, we're going to actually talk about what they call GC codes, and a GC code is a geocaching code. The smaller the code, predominantly, the older it is. So these codes themselves are pretty much predominantly four digits long, including the letters GC. So they're really, really old. We're going to start with number one, josh. We're going to straight in. Before we do, how many have you found out of these 10, I should say.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's a fun fact. I have found half of them. I have found five of the 10, which I was actually impressed with. I was like, okay, I found five of the 10. How many have you found?
Speaker 1:Four, four of the 10, josh, four of these 10 of the oldest in the USA. I was pretty excited about that. I was actually a little bit shocked. I was a little bit shocked because I'm not one of those to look out for. I don't have them on my to-find list, not like my Cash Across America series and that sort of thing too. They're on my to-find list, but not as much as the oldest. But yes, I was a bit surprised. All right, we'll start with number one. Number one should be no surprise to most geocaching-apertured people as well, and that is called Mingo GC30. Colby, candice, josh, you and I have both found this one. What's the experience like?
Speaker 2:What would you say that people can expect if they try and find Mingo GC30? Well, not only have we both found this, but we have found this together, craig. Yes, we have gone to this together, which makes it even more special. And actually I've been to this geocache actually twice the first time, the first time I went to this geocache, I was with my young, young family and all of a sudden a guy walks up to my door and he's completely naked and my kids are just laughing their heads off as this guy is just like, wants to get a picture with the geocache naked.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was. Oh, boy, I didn't know how to feel about that with my kids, my kids there oh yeah, yeah, no not so family friendly, you know.
Speaker 2:Let's be honest no, and this isn't. You know, there's caches that people are encouraged to find naked. This is not one of those. No, no, no. Anyway. So Mingo, gc 30, it's in the middle of nowhere. And when I say the middle of nowhere, it's in the middle of nowhere, kansas, right off the highway, and it is literally just on the side of a farmer's field, next to a fence post, and it is literally inside the ground. It's like underground, it's like a, I think currently it's just like a big giant pvc pipe, but yes, it's the world's oldest, it is. It is geocaching holy ground. So you have to visit mingo. Yeah, what about your?
Speaker 1:experience well when we're talking about world's oldest structure.
Speaker 2:It is geocaching holy ground, so you have to visit Mingo.
Speaker 1:What about your experience? Well, when we're talking about world's oldest geocaching, we're talking about the world's oldest physical geocaching, the one you can actually find that has a physical container. We're not talking about virtuals and the like as well. So that's what we're talking about. My experience, josh, I've had done this twice as well, the second time with you at that time at Mingo Madness, but I had to get Josh. I had to In 2018, when I come across the good old US of A and did my big road trip for Cincinnati. This was big, big bucket list tick for me. So I'll tell you now. I was a little bit underwhelmed by just pulling off the highway, pulling around a little dirt road, getting out and just seeing it there in the corner went is this it? I drove, I went across the entire world and this was my number one to find and I was like, ah, that's all it is check, check, I found it exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the town, the town of mingo. The town of Mingo is like all that's really there is like a church and maybe a couple houses. I mean, it's a very, very small, small town. Do you remember when we visited the church at Mingo Madness, they were so excited that all these geocachers were coming to little tiny Mingo, that all these geocachers were coming to little tiny Mingo, I think.
Speaker 1:If I remember correctly, they got told by the organizers that they were going to come and they were going to be there, and so they had like a little lemonade stand and some drinks and some snacks out the front as well cookies, but also the local geocaching community there with Mingo Madness when they hosted that they also did all those. Remember those really cool looking caches where we had the outhouse, the actual toilet hanging in the tree, and then there was the corner store hanging in another tree and stuff like that too. So really cool looking geocaches Not really gadgety, there were some, but not all of them, but some of them were just brilliant looking though yeah, I enjoyed those. Not all of them, but some of them are just brilliant looking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I enjoyed those. Yeah, there is a really nice, almost travel bug hotel. It's like a general store that is actually in town. It's like a wood old school general store that they made into a geocache. I remember that cache. But there are other things nearby. There is the Southwind Antique Mall, so all you antiquers and vintage lovers, it's close to mingo, I don't know. I don't know what city is and you'd have to look that up. Um, the prairie museum of art and history features an enormous barn I think we saw oh my gosh, we saw that we remember in town, in colby k Kansas.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, in Colby, kansas it was like the world's largest barn, or at least Kansas' largest barn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2:And there was a barn gadget cache. There was a barn gadget cache right next to it, so that was pretty cool. Yep, yep, that was cool, but I visited this on the way to Bingo in Goodland, kansas. It's the world's largest easel. It's just a giant reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh's sunflower painting on an 80-foot easel. Have you visited?
Speaker 1:that. Yes, I have, mate. Yes, I have, absolutely. You can't miss that. Our listeners know, josh, it's exactly what tickles our fancy and it tickles them as well, and that is anything that's world's largest. We're talking about roadside attractions, for instance. I'm not going to spoil anything, but we've got roadside attractions coming up next month too. And, josh, just to let everyone know, if you're a patron, listen up, patrons, listen up, because we're going to do something special for patrons for our March Madness. But anyway, moving back to it, all the links for some. You got some videos, josh, in the show notes as well. What are they for?
Speaker 2:Yeah, all the videos are the videos of you and I visiting the whole area. I have there's four videos in there. There are four videos of visiting Mingo, so take a look.
Speaker 1:That's awesome? Yep, absolutely. And, of course, mingo is one of the ones that we've both visited as well. Moving on to number two, josh, we have Geocache. That's all it is. It's actually called Geocache and it is GC12. It's near, what is it?
Speaker 2:Escatada, escatada, escatada, escatada, escatada, escatada.
Speaker 1:Oregon In Oregon, it's in Oregon. Have you found this one, josh? Do you recall?
Speaker 2:Yes, I found this one. I found this one on a coach bus with 37 Germans. So I hiked up to this thing with 30 37 germans. I took a in 2018. I took a bus trip to find all the old geocaches with a bunch of germans, with, uh, daniel flieger's company cache horizon, so that's that's who I found gc12 and I remember one thing. I remember pulling up, I don't know because did you find this one craig?
Speaker 1:Yes, I did, yes, I did, and I remember this one quite vividly as well, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so when you pull up, there's like a sign and the sign just like. I don't remember what the sign said, but it was just filled with bullet holes. It was just like bullet practice and you're just kind of like okay it is, josh, you think about.
Speaker 1:It is actually hidden quite deep in the, in the oregon wilderness itself. Um, you know, you do have to do that that drive up to get there. It's but it's beautiful drive. It is a stunning like anything really in oregon anywhere, those drives where there's lots of tree foliage and overhanging, they're stunning drives. And then, though, because it's oregon as well, it's kind of a. I was coming to say it's like a. It's a wet state, just like the moist state you know, like it gets a lot of rain, a lot of rain for itself, so it can be a bit of a muddy hike. It was a bit of a muddy hike for me to get up, uh, but again, josh, once you get up there, as as like like most old caches, they take you to beautiful locations and and is it true for you whereby, as soon as it opened up, you're like oh, you're in the wilderness, you're, you're on top of the world. Basically the feeling, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I remember this hike being pretty long, I think. Yes, I think it was well. First it was, I know it was a hike up so we were going up most of the time. I remember that and I would. I think I remember it being like two miles one way, so it was like an over four mile hike round trip. Do you remember it being that long?
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, absolutely. Cause I was by myself doing this one, and so I was umming and ahhing at first, cause I didn't know how long it'd take me to do. And this is when I was on a time crunch as well, because it was my first time over to the US and I was doing the whole big across the US trip. So, yeah, it was. It was quite long, but I thought to myself you know what? I'll probably never come back to the US again, so I might as well get it.
Speaker 2:I mean, it is the second oldest geocache in the world. You gotta visit it, you gotta go, you gotta go. I had to. This is actually also very close to the original stash plaque. It is in the same area as that, so you can get this one, you can get the original stash plaque. And then I think there's another really old one, like a top 20 old one, I think it's gc, I think it's gc 16, I'm not sure, um, but that's also in the area as well.
Speaker 2:So this is, this is the birthplace, really, craig, of geocaching. So and again, this is again geocaching holy ground. But, craig, there are other things around there. As always, josh, as always, yeah, always hidden gems. There is the Phillips Foster Farm, which is a hands-on pioneer life exhibit. You can go like into pioneer times. You could probably pretend you're on the Oregon Trail. After all, it's in Oregon. Yeah, you're going to love this. Craig Fearless Brewing Company Great craft beer and a cozy setting. Oregon. Yeah, you're going to love this. Craig Fearless Brewing Company Great craft beer in a cozy setting Num num, num, num, num num num.
Speaker 1:And we both know as well I was going to say, Josh, we both know as well our good friend, Minnesota boy, Minnesota boy, Minnesota boy, and your good friend as well, Mecca MN, that you were out with during the week. They both have a new podcast as well, which we mentioned as well. So, yeah, take a look at that, the Brewery Adventure. Anyway, keep moving on Apart from the brewing company.
Speaker 2:what's next? In Elsie, oregon, which is also nearby, there is a logging museum which has just giant saws and historic logging trucks. So if you ever wanted to learn about logging and see some giant saws, that's where you go the Logging Museum.
Speaker 1:Now our listeners out there, especially patrons as well. I was going to say before you move on, before you move on the Logging Museum, obviously that's got to do with the lumberjacks of the like and of old school and old days. Now, if anyone's out there listening to us patrons especially if you meet Joshua the Jig Cashing Vlogger at any event, and he invites you to go axe throwing with him like a logger, josh, he pulls out his inner logging background and, wearing his plate, like the red and black checkered shirts as well, and all of a sudden, josh, you throw those axes like a man that's built for logging and a lumberjack. So, joshua the jacuzzi lumberjacker.
Speaker 2:I am surprisingly good at throwing axes.
Speaker 1:I didn't know this was a talent, that.
Speaker 2:I had until we did it in Owensboro Kentucky. Yeah, All right, Craig, here's the best thing I found.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:What's the best thing you found? The best thing I found near this area was in Oregon City, which is just north of the Cache. It's a place called Tree Climbing Planet. What Tree Climbing Planet? Yeah, what do you do with tree climbing? It's a farm dedicated to teaching people the professional, professional art of tree climbing. It's a tree climbing farm. Is it art to it?
Speaker 1:Is it art to it? Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a tree climbing to it. There's an art to it, yeah, I guess. So, yeah, there's, it's an art, they there's. There's all these courses and professional tree climbing like courses that you learn and and must be a lot of trees to climb. It's a 150 acre farm and it's a safe place. I'm sure they have all the equipment. It's a safe place. I'm sure they have all the equipment. It's a safe place to practice tree climbing, which, hey, for geocachers, that is a very, very good skill to have.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely, except if, in Joshua's case, whereby he goes out with friends that you know, climb the tree for him so he can just sign the log and fill his next jasmine.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah.
Speaker 1:If you'll see the video this week.
Speaker 2:the original plan on my video this week was I brought Courtney because she's a rock climber, so I was like, okay, Courtney's going to climb up the tree. But then Gravity Bear showed up and he brought a super long pole and that's how we got it down.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, pole instead of the climb, that's right. Tree climbing showed up and he brought a super long pole and that's how we got it down. Yeah, oh okay, but hole instead of the climb, that's all right, all right. Moving on to yeah, number three. Number three is its name is beverly and it's gc28 gc28 near beverly in illinois. Have you done this one, john? Oh, I haven't, I haven't, I haven't, so I can't talk about this one. I can't talk about this one. What?
Speaker 2:was your experience with it? This one is very near our friend Scott Burks, who you are a co-host with on the Geocaching Podcast. This is a suburb of Chicago, basically, and it is in a kind of a you know, it's a forest preserve in suburban Illinois. So this one is remote for like the Chicagoland area, but it's not as remote as the first two. But it is the third oldest geocache in a park that has lots of geocaches in it. So if you go there you won't get just beverly, but there's lots of other great caches in there in there as well, and I haven't. When I visited, I visited with the reester bunny. I just happened to be in town. I can't remember why we were in town, but I I went into the park the wrong way. So you know how. Like you know how, like Waze or like Google Maps gives you the driving directions to geocaches, but it often gives you the direction of the closest point where the road is.
Speaker 2:So it didn't take me, it didn't take me to the park entrance. It took me to like, so I had to like we had to like climb a fence and like bushwhack through to beeline it to Beverly, bushwhack through to beeline it to beverly, um, and as we were doing it, like it was getting dark and like it was one of those moments where I felt a little nervous, like, oh my gosh, I should have marked the car because I I don't know if I'm gonna be able to find the car, um, but we did.
Speaker 2:And, yeah, we got the third oldest geocache, which is beverly you know that's.
Speaker 1:That's really cool, that's really cool. But uh, also josh as well, if you're not. If you're not a geocache, which is Beverly in a forest preserve, that's really cool. But also Josh as well. If you're not a geocacher, then you don't understand this term. But it's quite easy to understand if you think about it. And that is as geocaching people, as soon as we find the cache, you always find the easiest way out. You always find the geotrail out. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:So what's?
Speaker 1:around this sort of area, Josh.
Speaker 2:Well, one of the places that's around it is Chicago. Yes of course have you spent much time in Chicago, Craig.
Speaker 1:Zero Josh, zero, zero time in Chicago, really Interesting I have not been to been to chicago.
Speaker 2:It's a great city, that's one you gotta get to eventually, yeah, um, but chicago has so much, so much to offer. But I'm going to tell you a couple things that are some off the beaten path. Uh things, niles illinois. Niles illinois is the home of a half-size replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Speaker 1:It's half the size.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that sounds like a cool roadside attraction to me. It might be a roadside attraction March Madness, who knows. But yeah, niles, illinois, a little town, has a half-size Leaning Tower of Pisa, which sounds pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2:There's also some museums. There's some museums and there's, of course, a craft brewery. There's a craft brewery called the Horse Thief Hollow. Not only beer, but Southern-inspired dishes. You know, we love those Southern-inspired dishes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've had a few mate down here in in alabama just saying, just saying so, nice job, nice job. Moving on to number four, josh, we have the spot. The spot is gc, code gc39. It's near nyack in new york and I think that's new york state. Tell us, josh, have you done this one?
Speaker 2:No, sadly I've not. You know, this is one of those areas that we got to get up there because we've talked about a lot of like I think it's in Northern New York. We've talked about going there for various different things featured on this podcast and the spot the spot is one of them. It is, um, it is a moderate hike, according to many of the logs that we have read. Um, it's one of the oldest, uh, it's in the one of the oldest. It is the oldest in the eastern united states, but there's a well-established geocaching trail so there must be a very good geo trail to this geocache. There's nearby, the Hudson River is nearby, and so there's some really beautiful, beautiful spots along the way. So it sounds, craig, like a beautiful hike.
Speaker 1:It really does, and I've read some of the logs as well, Josh, and some of them talk about different wildlife, like deer, sightings and things like that too, which is I'll tell you now, Josh. For me, even a squirrel sometimes is just like oh squirrel. It's one of those things where you know you're in nature. Anything nearby, Josh, Anything nearby.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I found something kind of freaky Craig, kind of spooky, scary the Clausland Mountain Tunnels, these freaky tunnels that you walk down them. There's got to be a geocache in these tunnels. They're super long tunnels and so these tunnels were created for World War I for people to do target like shooting. They shot like rifles into into these tunnels. That's what they were created for. But now they're just these abandoned tunnels that have like graffiti and there's like a lot of lore around these tunnels like creepy, like satanic stuff. That probably didn't ever happen. But people go down in these tunnels and again, if we looked more into it, I bet you these are perfect spots for geocaches because these tunnels are like higher than you know a human so you can walk through them. But yeah, look it up, clausland Mountain Tunnels they look, really creepy freaky kind of a lost place.
Speaker 2:You know, when you go to Europe, Europe has a lot of lost places like this, so the fact that we have kind of these, this is kind of a lost place. It just sounded super interesting so that was one of the cool things near the spot.
Speaker 1:And what else did you learn as well? What other stuff was there?
Speaker 2:again lots of museums, and one of the museums is the letchworth village of ruins. This is in feels new york, greg, it's also creepy an eerie abandoned psychiatric hospital. So can you imagine going through an abandoned psychiatric hospital? It's a ruins. Oh my gosh, that sounds, sounds terrifying.
Speaker 1:Sounds terrifying well, I've seen a couple of videos online move on.
Speaker 2:I think we should move on to number five okay, we'll move on.
Speaker 1:We'll move on to number five. Absolutely, josh. Number five is missouri's. First. It's it's called watts mill and it's gc37, located in kansas city, missouri. Uh, have you, josh, done this one?
Speaker 2:I can't believe you haven't been to kansas city many times and I haven't done it. And have you craig? All right you need to start talking about it oh, I don't recall, josh, exactly.
Speaker 1:I looked and I even looked at my log, but it was very quite it's. It's one of those things, josh, where it's quite a little bit of a generic log, like it didn't stand out too much, um, but while I was there I did read other logs as well and, uh, some of the other logs stated that it was a because it was, it was a quick, you know, grab and go. So I think it was a because it was, it was a quick grab and go. So I think it was located in a historic mill site tucked away along a greenway in Kansas City, and there's a lot of urban area around it itself as well, but it seems like the urban area has sort of got larger as time goes on, you know, around the actual.
Speaker 1:So really, josh, it is just a park and grab, you know it's. It's not like there's big hikes. So I feel that's the reason why it's not really memorable. You know, for me as well, it's just one of those things like, oh, this is the oldest. Uh, you know, this is missouri's first, I'll have to grab it. Oh, look at that, it's just there, it is park and grab. So, yeah, yeah, so that is my experience with it.
Speaker 2:That makes this very unique, because most of these are like significant hikes out in the middle of nowhere. So the fact that this is basically a parking grab in Kansas City, missouri, makes this very unique for being the fifth oldest active geocache in the United States.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:There are some other cool things.
Speaker 1:I was going to say sorry just quickly. In your reviews as well, what other things you were just about to mention are on there. I'm getting ahead of you, but I'm getting ahead of you. What else is there to mention?
Speaker 2:to mention so again and again, the. In my research it was mentioned the national museum of toys and miniatures. So there's a toy museum which I love. I love some good vintage toys, so that would be really cool to see. See a bunch of, like old classic toys. I think that would be cool. So that is in Kansas City. Of course there's another brewing company nearby, the Boulevard Brewing Company, craft Brews. But this one, okay, are you ready for the weird one? Yeah, lila's Hair Museum In Independence Missouri. So it's a museum entirely. It's a museum entirely dedicated to hair art and jewelry made of human hair.
Speaker 1:Wow, wow. I'm going to look that up after we finish the podcast. I'm going to have to look that up because that there should be. Remember it's only the other week, josh, we did that really freaky sort of places to be and places to see that could have been on that list as well. Josh, just saying.
Speaker 2:It sounds interesting. I'm really curious, I'm sure I'm sure so in our, in our shower, okay this might be tmi okay in our shower I. I have some really great hair art done by my wife because she has long brown hair and she it falls. You know, parts of it fall out and then she makes little like art on the side of the walls for me to enjoy, so I know a little bit about hair art I'm sorry, just that really came out of left field, it really.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, all right, tammy, well done, keep it going. Uh, we're moving on to number six. Josh is camel's prairie, stash, gc25. It's near priest lake in idaho. I have not done this one, josh, have you?
Speaker 2:I have not either. But boy oh boy, the pictures are beautiful because this is Idaho and this is remote in an area that is just gorgeous. I mean, idaho is just a gorgeous state. It is a very remote place. You're driving on dirt roads to get there, but it is a fairly short trek to the actual geocache. But they said the terrain can be rough depending on the season, um, but in the summer there's lots of mosquitoes, but in the winter, deep snow, so you might not be able to get to it in the winter. However, yeah, but yeah, it's.
Speaker 2:It's supposed to be a really beautiful, beautiful spot and, uh, priest lake is just a huge lake. If you look on the map, you'll see it. It's, it's a gigantic lake, but there are some cool things nearby. This was the coolest thing I saw. Of course, this is all pretty much you know out there. So there is a place called lion head natural water slide, and I boy do. I love a fun natural water slide, but this is exactly what you think just a giant rock.
Speaker 2:I put a video in the show notes of kids, families, just sliding down this gigantic rock. Um, it's basically, yeah, big, big, giant water slide. So that that was really cool in this sort of remote area and Craig and Craig nearby, I believe, just to the North possibly, is um, is Spokane Washington, spokane Washington, the home of look out Lisa from cash advance, yes, and, and actually I think there's also a lot of movies that were filmed in spokane. But spokane washington has the world's largest radio flyer wagon. It's a giant climbable red wagon in the park. So, um, we're the world's largest wagon, right there, not too far from from camels prairie, stash number six, six, very, very cool.
Speaker 1:Okay. So, moving on to number seven, then we have Potter's Pond. This one is very well known amongst the geocaching community, gc3b, and the reason for it? Firstly, it's near Fairview, utah. Now, the reason this is very unique is because, josh, it's one of those old ones that there's not many of these actually left that are listed in that month of the year. So if those people want to get a cache in every single month of every single year, this is one of those rare ones where I think there's like two or three in the entire world in that particular month, in that particular year.
Speaker 2:Yes, there are four caches that are still active.
Speaker 2:There are four caches that are still active, that were hidden in the month of august of 2000. So, um, and I'll tell them. I know what they are, I have them memorized. Are you ready? It's this one, potter's pond. And then, uh, the next one is in Georgia, which is, I'm forgetting. It's by a lake, it's near a lake. All the geocachers are just shouting at their radios right now. And then there's one in Michigan that you have to take a boat to. I'm forgetting the name of that one.
Speaker 1:And then there's one in Sweden as well. So those are the four. This is one of them. So you have memories of the locations more so than the actual names or GC codes of them. So you're halfway there. I'll give you halfway, Josh. I'll give you halfway. So have you done this one, Josh? Have you done Potter's Pond?
Speaker 2:Yes, I have have you.
Speaker 1:No, yes, yes, I have, have you. No, yes, I have again. This is one of the ones. Oh, you have. Yeah, okay, yeah, I have. I had to get this one again. You know, in 2018, on my big trip across, you know, I had to feel in, this is the one I could actually drive past and get this one. Um, all the others were too far out of my way in order to obtain, so this one here is exactly right. That's what I needed to get, because I was never going to come back in the us again, again, again. You know, to my mind, so unbeknownst to me, here I am living and breathing across america now, but anyway, um, what was your experience with this one, josh?
Speaker 2:I think it's probably the same as mine so this one was wild because it was on that road trip with the 37 Germans in a coach bus. Now, craig, you know how winding and narrow those roads are to get up to this thing. It's kind of in the mountains, I can't believe. This bus driver took a coach bus all the way up there to the parking area and as we were going up there it was snowing. It was snowing too. No, it was wild. It was wild. There was snow coming down. As I found this and you'll get the videos in the show notes I actually swim. I get down to my skivvies and I swim at Potter's Pond. I swim and, craig, it's snowing, it's snowing and I was the hero for all the Germans because there was an island cache that was not Potter's Pond that they wanted, and I said, okay, I want all these Germans to like me, so I'll get down to my skivvies and I'll go over in the snow, in the cold water, and there's a video to prove that I did it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sounds good. Sounds good. Josh just asked me this as well. They knew it was actually cold water once you were walking out from the swim. Is that the reason no?
Speaker 2:I'm joking, it was obviously cold.
Speaker 1:I do know. I do know how treacherous those roads are because I did it in that van. Remember, I hired that van itself from Escape Rental Vans Almost the same size as my van now and yeah, I had that one going up there too and I was like I was ameningaring. I was thinking, should I, Should I? I was halfway up thinking, oh, should I just turn around? I'm like, oh no, I'm halfway there. Now I can get to this this and I'm happy I did it as well, to be honest.
Speaker 2:So it was really cool so this hike is not super long, but if you remember correctly, it is almost straight up. Yes, incline yeah the incline of the trail is like straight up the mountain. Um, so I was. I was breathing pretty hard and it was. It was high altitude. So this one, this one, was a tough one, but it was, it was totally worth it. It's such a beautiful area exactly.
Speaker 1:Well, there's some thin air up there. When you get up that sort of altitude too, the air thins out slightly as well. So but anyway, josh, what is in around the area in your research that you found?
Speaker 2:so if you're there in the summer, there's an old-fashioned drive-in movie theater nearby, in a little town nearby, so that's kind of cool and I don't have the name of it, but I'm sure if you search it's called the Bison Drive-In Theater. Again, there's more museums. There's a prehistoric museum, so a museum filled with dinosaur fossils. Now, this is an area where there's lots of, you know, near Montana. Up in that area there's lots of dinosaur fossils that were found here. So it's basically just like a big dinosaur bones museum. But I think the coolest thing. Now, this is two-hour drive from Potter's Pond. Now this is, you know, potter's Pond is in the middle of nowhere thing. Now, this is two hour drive from potter's pond. Now, this is, you know, potter's pond at the middle of nowhere. So you know, there's. You got to go some distance and you have to like drive around the the topography right, but it's a two hour drive and this is worth it. It's called devil's kitchen, which is on the nebo loop scenic byway and it's it's utah's own miniature.
Speaker 2:This is now in utah this is utah's miniature bryce canyon with these bright red rock formations. If you look it up you'll just be like, oh my gosh, bryce canyon. That's very popular, this like red rocked area canyon. But this is like a mini version of it. It's called the devil's kitchen. So everybody says that's that's you gotta. You gotta go there, you gotta go there.
Speaker 1:And, josh, you did say that he's actually in utah um and you gotta go there. And, josh, you did say that he's actually in utah um, and you've written it too, which is pretty cool. It's about two hours drive from potter's pond, that particular one yep, so that's really good all right, moving on moving on josh to yep.
Speaker 1:Moving on to number eight, the again. This, the name of this is another one geocache. That's all it is. That's the name. That's the official name, and it's GC57,. Gc57, near Payson, arizona. Josh, have you done this one?
Speaker 2:I have done this one.
Speaker 1:Have you? No, I have not. No Again. It was out of the world when my big trip across, though.
Speaker 2:This one is Arizona's oldest and it is boy. It is out in the desert. I looked this up, I did this one in April I believe, and it was like not in April, craig it was like 95 degrees, it was really hot and I was freaked. I was freaked out because I was just you drive, basically you can drive kind of like a. You know, I rented a pickup truck. When I do rentals I very rarely rent, but I rented a pickup truck because I could drive as close as I could, because there's no trail. Craig, you're just walking out into the desert, no trail, and there's little bushes everywhere and all you're thinking the whole time is is is there a rattlesnake underneath these bushes? That I was freaked, freaked out the whole time. It was wild, so that I was probably more scared at this geocache than any geocache I've ever been to, just because I was afraid of rattlesnakes and Josh, all I'll say is lucky, you haven't been to Australia yet, so just saying oh boy Right.
Speaker 1:And what else did you find with Josh?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so there's the Payson. So Payson Arizona is a town. There's a candle factory there. You can make candles. That's kind of interesting. That's cool, that's neat. But the big thing, this is the fun thing that I found. I'm going to murder the name of this because Mogollon, mogollon.
Speaker 1:Mogollon, mogollon, mogollon.
Speaker 2:Mogollon, mogollon, mogollon mogollon, mogollon mogollon, mogollon, mogollon, mogollon.
Speaker 2:So the mogollon, the mogollon ridge, is there. It's apparently like a ridge right and they have. They think that, uh, some boy scouts in the 1940s saw the mogollon monster, which is arizona, arizona's version of bigfoot. Oh, and they said that many sightings have happened near the mogolan rim, near payson. So yeah, some boy scouts in 1940s took a trip and they saw this monster. They said this is the quote the was huge. Its eyes were deep set and hard to see. Of course he was hard to see, but they seemed expressionless. His face seemed pretty much devoid of hair, but there seemed to be hair along the side of his face. His chest, shoulders and arms were massive, especially in the upper arms, easily upwards to six inches in diameter, perhaps much, much more. I could see he was pretty hairy, but didn't observe really how thick the body hair was.
Speaker 1:Well, josh, just saying that kind of sounds I was just saying before you move on. That kind of sounds like my nude cash video that's recently published on my channel as well. I was more, I was more thinking of the six inch biceps, but then you kept on going on about the uh, the. The hair was, the uh was the main thing, was pretty hairy so and thick, thick body hair.
Speaker 2:Yeah this, this just sounds like a really hairy man. This just sounds like a hairy man that's all it's like out I think they just encountered a hairy man out in the out in the wilderness, I'm pretty sure that's all it's like I think they just encountered a hairy man out in the out in the wilderness. I'm pretty sure that's all it was, but there's a lot of yeah. But if you want to see arizona's, you know bigfoot go to pace in arizona there you go but make sure you find the geocache exactly.
Speaker 1:Well, speaking of hair and gorilla like material, that's where number nine, josh, look at that for a segue. Number nine is gorilla stash. It is GC1B and it's near Mountain Home, arkansas. Josh, have you found this one?
Speaker 2:Greg, is this the first one that we both have not found?
Speaker 1:I think this is the first one, we both have not found? Yeah, we both have not found. So we looked at some logs, Josh, to actually see what it's like. What did you see?
Speaker 2:It's in again. This is this is out in the middle of nowheresville, but it's um near the ozarks, which is, I've heard, a beautiful area.
Speaker 2:I haven't spent a lot of time in the ozarks. But, um, they said, once you get there you can. It's a, it's you got to expect some elevation. It's a short bushwhack to locate the hiding spot. Um, it's tricky search among the natural camouflage, but uh, but it's worth it. They, they say it's worth it. So, um, again, haven't experienced it, so it's hard for me to give a lot of detail, but I do know something cool.
Speaker 2:I do know something cool around it and that is um about an hour south again, mountain home arkansas is. It's a small town. You go uh hour south, the mystery cave at planchard spring cavern. Oh craig, I love a good cavern and in this cavern they have what is called the wall of wonder and I put a youtube video in the show notes. It is gorgeous. It is just like this gigantic wall that is in front of you of just beautiful, like cave formations. Um, it was. It's quite a, it's quite a sight to see. So that seems like that was the coolest thing. Nearby mountain home Arkansas.
Speaker 1:Very, very cool. All right, Josh. Moving on to number 10, because of the timeframe as well. Last one, but definitely not least, but it is the top 10. It is a tie, Is it? Tie Y'all, tie Y'all.
Speaker 2:Terry, is it Tar-Yol, tar-yol, tar-yol?
Speaker 1:Tar-Yol, tar-yol, tar-yol, gc18,. It's in near Lake George in Colorado. Josh, have you found this one?
Speaker 2:Oh, I skipped it because there was Geo Woodstock in Denver and a lot of people went out there, but I just didn't have time for it. But this is out, just outside. I think it's about, uh, I think, two hours though outside of Denver, colorado, but it's, it's come on, it's Colorado, it is. It is just beautiful out there. So you, as you drive, you're going from Denver, you're just going to see mountains upon mountains. It's just beautiful. Um, you can take, uh, take a. I believe you can take a, like a Jeep, almost right up to the geocache, but it takes a while to get up there. But get this. It's a home Depot bucket. That's what it's famous for. It's those you know those orange Home Depot buckets.
Speaker 2:That's what it is.
Speaker 1:So it's huge.
Speaker 2:It's a huge geocache. That's cool, yeah, in a beautiful area. I've seen pictures of this. It's a great spot in the middle of nowheresville, that's really cool and what's around it, josh, some of the coolest stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, some of the coolest stuff, okay. So this is, you know, know, if you're near there, I think pike's peak is about hours away from there, which is just a beautiful you know. You drive up pike's peak, you gotta do that, yeah, um, but if you go two hours south, okay, there's some weird stuff here, two weird things, and you guys gotta check out this video. It's in the show notes the ufo watch tower, what in hoopers, colorado, okay. So this is a place. Oh, you gotta watch the youtube video.
Speaker 2:It's a lady named judy, a lady named judy. It's in the middle of like, so there's mountains all around, but this is just like a big flat area, and so judy built. There's no natural I'm sorry, there's no artificial light out there, so she can see the sky quite well, yes, and she saw herself. She said she's seen 26 UFO sightings in this location, wow. So she built, she built a 10 foot platform. It's just a platform that you walk up to view, to, to take a look at the um, at the ufos, wow, and this whole place, craig, this whole place is just, it's one of those roadside attractions. People just leave all kinds of random stuff around, um, you know, just toys and pez container.
Speaker 2:I mean you gotta watch this video. It's so funny. But in this video it's so funny. This woman, judy, takes the guy who's interviewing her. She goes do you want to watch this video? It's so funny. But in this video it's so funny. This woman, judy, takes the guy who's interviewing her. She goes do you want to see the magic bush? He's like sure, sure. So she walks to this random bush and she goes.
Speaker 2:Put your hand in there, hands tingling, he's like uh, uh, yeah, she goes. You know why that is she goes. That's why because this place is the vortex. It's a vortex to a parallel universe, and that's why that's why all the aliens gravitate around there, because it's a vortex. That's, oh, my gosh, this.
Speaker 1:This is one of those places where the treasure is got to be judy herself yes, absolutely, and so and so that bush I'm thinking Josh as well that bush isn't the vortex, that bush is just a little bit poisonous, that's all that is. It gives you the tingling sensation on your hand, like a stinging nettle, exactly.
Speaker 2:It's really funny. That's gold. But get this, craig, get this. There's a cache, of course there's a cache. Of course there's a cache there. Oh, yes, it's called Alien Cache GC3MFQJ. So that'll get you right there, to Judy's UFO watchtower in Hooper, colorado. Wow, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. And then, craig, there's another the Bishop's Castle in Rye, colorado. You got to watch this video. Oh my gosh, it's a one man built castle in the mountains, completely built. It's huge, craig, and it's complete. The spire the top of the castle is a fire breathing dragon. Oh, wow, that was built. Get this built out of hospital warmer trays. You know, when you go to the hospital and you go to the dining room, he found a bunch of dining room hospital things and that's what he made the dragon out of.
Speaker 1:Wow, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:And the dragon breeze fire.
Speaker 1:The dragon breeze fire.
Speaker 2:I got a video in the show notes. It's wild, it's wild, it's wild. So that's close by, I think about an hour away from the UFO watchtower. So Colorado, beautiful place, see the mountains, but also see all this, see all the other extra bits.
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly. Well, that's really cool. So there we have it, josh the top 10 of the oldest geocaches located here in the good old US of A Awesome, awesome to see. Thank you so much for doing the research, mate. I do appreciate it.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, I will say, down here in Bamarama, josh, I did have one of our brand new, not just listeners but patrons, that's right. He came up and said to me, craig, craig, craig, I'm a brand new patron, and there was actually there's been two of them, to be honest with you, but one reached out to us online. The other one, the other one was exactly the same, josh, I was sitting there. You remember the Alberta Museum, remember the museum, the one with the cookie clock at the front, and you know Venture Labs galore throughout. You know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1:I just walked outside and I just finished adventure lab inside. I walked outside and there, lo and behold, I've got some new emails and I just flicked up in one and it was new patron. I went oh, that's a new patron, that looks really cool. And lo and behold again, guess who? Walks directly up to me? And and I looked at and went you're a new patron. Thank you so much for your patrons like your patronage.
Speaker 1:And then she's like how did you know? I just got the. I just readied them email as we speak. So, um, yeah, we've got a couple new patrons josh as well but this, this one, this one reached out to us separately and he said hey guys, I wanted to drop you a line. After meeting craig at the pirates cove event at bamarama on friday, I introduced myself and mentioned I was one of the new patrons since your last show. I also wanted to mention to Josh to check his logs on Groundhog Day Adventure Lab, because, josh, he was so excited he did, he did it on Groundhog Day, so he did your Adventure Labs on Groundhog Day itself.
Speaker 1:He said keep up the great content. My favorite podcast Look me up if you're ever passing through the Chicagoland area. I think his geocaching name was Brava E that's his surname. That's his last name. That's his last name. That's his surname. Same thing, Is it Canis Minor? I think it's Canis Minor.
Speaker 2:Canis Minor. Yes, his name's Clyde Bravery.
Speaker 1:That's it, bravery, that's it. I actually said it correct as well when he was there, but because he asked me and I said it correctly at the time too, so that's awesome. So, yes, thank you, clyde, for your patronage and thank you for coming up and reaching out to us as well. That's pretty cool, josh. We did say in regards to an upcoming episode, a very, very, very special episode to our hearts, and that is the March Madness. So keep an eye out for that If you want to be a part of that patronage, josh as well. How can people join up?
Speaker 2:You can join us at patreoncom backslash treasures of our town. We really appreciate your support. By supporting us, you're helping us create better content. Keep it free for everyone.
Speaker 2:And, as Craig said, roadside Attraction March Madness is coming up in a couple episodes, and so our patrons. I'm just going to let the cat out of the bag Ready. Here's the deal the patrons are going to get to select five entries into the Roadside Attraction March Madness. We're going to have to select five entries into the Roadside Attraction March Madness. We're going to have a nomination process and then we'll have a little bit of a poll and they're going to get to enter some things that they want to have in there. And if you don't know what Roadside Attraction March Madness is, we have a tournament-style sort of contest where we put Roadside attraction against roadside attraction to name the best roadside traction in america and last year's number one, the defending champion, which I don't think they're going to defend because we're not gonna. We're not gonna have any. You know repeats, but it was the world's largest ball of paint that was last year.
Speaker 1:Now, that was a great one josh, I will say I will, and I'll keep it anonymous. But a patron of ours as well has spoken to me at length in regards to that down here in Bamarama, and they believe that the world's largest ball of paint was not a. It doesn't list as a, it's more of a destination rather than a roadside attraction, but that's their opinion and that's the reason why we've enlisted the patrons as well, to have their support and their input too. So one more thing, though, before we close out, and that is that Josh apparently Clyde Brevier said we need some merch, we need a shirt or a jacket or something.
Speaker 1:And, josh, what does the shirt have to say on it?
Speaker 2:It has to say. Of course they're proud of their town. That's a rare thing these days. That's a damn rare thing these days.
Speaker 1:Thanks.
Speaker 2:Greg.
Speaker 1:Exactly, that's exactly right. Did you like me leading you into that? You didn't even know, you totally forgot, and I led you straight down that path. But that's actually true as well, that Clyde did mention that, that he wants a shirt with that on, and he wants a shirt with the, the first part on the front and then the one on the rear being the ending of it as well. So there you go, um, josh. Other than that, how else can people contact us if they want to?
Speaker 2:feel free to reach out to us at treasures of our town podcast at gmailcom, or you can follow us on Facebook, instagram, x and YouTube so that's it for our show today. Please, please, subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast and, as always, josh your travels always lead you to the most unexpected and amazing hidden gems around the world. See you next time.
Speaker 1:Bye everybody, bye, bye.
