The new disease?

One thing I have noticed is that you change your way of looking at things when you learn new things. For example, when I started with golf I did think about this as soon as I smelt the smell of grass. And when I drive around in a car I tend to look out for radio base stations. If you learn about clouds, skies and air preassure as a meterologist instead of looking out of the window and think "What a nice day we have" you will think "Cumulus Nimbulus, ah - that means rain tomorrow". And so on.

Bike in Boren next to the Svarthäll cache

So what about geoCaching? Of course this affect your thinking when you walk out in a forrest. Does not that tree looks like a good place for a T4 climbing cache?  That rock there has a nice cavity would make a good place for a hide. How can I use that information in a multi? What kind of mystery would that make? Etc...

Don't know if this "illness" has a name but I could call it "geocachitis" or something.  Judging by previous experience this disease will stay with me as long as I keep up geocaching, and probably years afterwards.

More events in Linköping?

Isn't it time for more events in Linköping?  There are all kinds of event all around Sweden now that spring has come, and I would like to have more, closer to home...  But do they need a lot of work before hand?  Not necessarily.

I think that it would be nice to have something like "En välförtjänt kopp kaffe" (GC2PKFX). At that event (which I considered visiting, but eventually did not) at a set time a number of caches are published. But you do not meet before this time but instead are expected to be spread out across town. A few hours later those interested meet up at a set place (for example a café) for some discussions and social interaction...  Sound like this could be a simple thing.  Number of caches could be any. In the Södertälje case it was 20.

So, I would consider doing something like this in Linköping. Is there any others that would be interested in participating?  If we were 4 cachers (or signums) we could make 5 caches each.  It could be simple rules (like 3 km or so from the event place), splitting the city in 4 parts.

7-8 May there are two events in Ödeshög ("En sten, en skog" GC2HZN6, "Ett berg" GC2NH0R), and 9 April one event in Norrköping ("Våren är här", GC2NR5V).  Also there are some events further away, for those of you that like to travel a bit.  What is a suitable date in the calendar?

What did I tell you? Wet feet!

In a previous blog entry I stated that wet feet is something you get a lot of during winter. But that was before Evil Beaver in Örebro...

Mean green things from outer space

In a secret celler under the Ground Speak HQ:

- Sir!
- Yes?
- Our agent, LetHvCryPer, reports spotting of an Urban Invasion in Sweden.
- What! When and where exactly?
- At 22:30 CET in central Linköping.
- Oh, yes. I can see why those brain eating bastards aim for that town with all those smart kids.
- Yes, sir!
- Are we sure that this is it? It's not one of those challenges again?
- No, sir! I believe this is the real shit. He have been tracking them down for months and finally he found their hiding place. He has also signed the report with that abbrev.
- What abbrev?
- TFTC, sir. That means it is a real finding.
- I see. Ok, let's send our best men from Area 51 to take care of this.
- Yes, sir!
- They sure need to get out now that Hollywood releases that movie about those teenage kid breaking into their secret storage.
- Yes, sir! I will see to that directly.
- Ok, carry on.