July 25, 2022 We thought Littleton, Massachusetts would be a good base for capitols and caches in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. New Hampshire’s oldest cache is near Nashua in the Mine Falls State Park, named for the lead Read more…
July 21, 2022 The author Samuel Clemens used the pen name Mark Twain. He, his wife Livy, and three daughters moved to Hartford, Connecticut to be close to the writer’s publisher.
July 20, 2022 We were meeting Jane’s niece Liz Reeves in Ludlow, Massachusetts for supper so we headed up from our base in Hartford, Connecticut to see what geocaches might be nearby. Another cache was called “Take-a-Look” and took us Read more…
July 19, 2022 Imagine if you will, a Chamber on the third floor of the Connecticut Capitol known as the Senate Chambers. It rests inside the gold dome of the Capitol. One of Seth Thomas’s first electric clocks is in Read more…
July 14-15, 2022 Boundary Monument It’s hard to resist a cache that marks a point where three states come together, in this case New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. On the way to the Tri-State Monument we passed the highest Read more…
July 14, 2022 The New Jersey State House is under renovation and we were unable to see many features. [Spoiler alert: There are no photos of the rotunda.] The original portion of New Jersey’s State House was constructed in 1792. Read more…
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 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 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 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 Read more…