July 13-14, 2022 The highlight of geocaching in the Hatfield area was the company: Jane’s niece Cindy Jeffes joined us for the day from Hatboro, Pennsylvania. Hamilton, New Jersey Dave and Jane found some interesting geocaches after their visit to the New Jersey Capitol in nearby Trenton. J. Seward Johnson Read more…
July 11, 2022 Letterboxing began in 1854 and requires that the finder follow written instructions to discover a container that contains a logbook with a rubber stamp in it. The finder signs or stamps the log and can use the letterbox’s rubber stamp in a souvenir book. Letterbox hybrid geocaches Read more…
July 5-12, 2022 Josef’s Cache The oldest geocache in Maryland is located in Patapsco Valley State Park so Jane confidently set the truck’s GPS to the park. . .and went to a section of Patapsco Valley State Park that was about 20 miles from the section where the cache was Read more…
July 9, 2022 The Maryland State House was designed by Joseph Horatio Anderson and was built by local merchant Charles Wallace. Bronzes of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman are featured in the Chamber to highlight the expansion of rights in Maryland in the 19th century. Maryland’s house served as the Read more…
July 8, 2022 We spent a day in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where Jane’s father lived. For supper we met Jane’s nephew Andy Esbenshade and Andy’s wife Lisa at John Wright’s Restaurant in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania.
July 7 and 11, 2022 Our purpose in going in to the District was [you might guess] to claim some geocaches. We attended a geocaching meet and greet with about 10 other people, snapped a screen shot of us waving at a webcam, took a selfie at the oldest geocache Read more…
July 6, 2022 We drove to Delaware from College Park, Maryland with the objectives of seeing Delaware’s capitol and finding Delaware’s oldest geocache. The cache is located in Trap Pond State Park, about an hour south of the capital. On our way home we stopped by Bridgerton for a cache Read more…
July 1-5, 2022 Our base for visiting the Richmond area was Ashland, Virginia in a campground we discovered on our way to the Maritime Provinces in 2016. Americamps offers entertainment, clean showers, ice cream and waffles, and pleasant sites. Ashland was developed as a mineral springs resort in the 1840’s Read more…
July 2, 2022 The first session of the Virginia legislature took place in Jamestown in 1619. The legislature then met in various locations in Jamestown and Williamsburg until 1780 when the capital was moved to Richmond. Lawmakers began meeting in the new Capital in 1788. Thomas Jefferson was serving as Read more…
