Geocaching in Space, the Final Frontier

The most remote geocache (but not in the world..) is located on the International Space Station. Few will ever get to search for this cache, and since a DNF is not an accepted astronaut acronym, any cacher that makes this journey will be required to post a smiley! While we do not have a picture of the astronaut that boldly went where no geocacher has been before, we can imagine that their EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) might have looked like this :-)

Geocaching in Medieval Times

 

A customer recently sent us this story about their trip to France and this view from a geocache that takes us back to medieval times.

"Our recent holiday brought us through the Burgundy region of France. Spending a night in the town of Vezelay allowed us the chance to both enjoy the UNESCO World Heritage historical sites and Geocache at this interesting location. The medieval walled town of Vezelay had its beginnings in the 9th century. Visiting the Basilica on the top of the hill was awe inspiring knowing that we were standing at the same location that launched religious crusades in the 1100's and 1200's.

The next morning we headed out to Geocache. Walking in the shadows of the ancient northern wall of the town my thoughts drifted, imagining what it must have been like to have lived in the medieval times. As we neared the cache, the imposing turret that guarded the entrance to the town loomed into view. Ports in the stone turret through which guards could view attackers or fire weapons were constant reminders of how dangerous life was then.

Finding the cache, I placed a Geocaching TravelFleas™ tag in the container, leaving a piece of my personal history to stay in this beautiful town. As we walked back to our hotel, I thought I saw a Knights Templer on horseback in the distance, sword raised and flag cracking in the wind, ready to defend the religious artifacts at the Vezelay basilica. Shaking the vision from my head, I realized my life had been enriched by the experience beyond a simple geocache."

View from a Geocache in France

 

Everyone knows geocaching takes you to new and exciting places from around the corner in your hometown to exotic destinations abroad. The vistas that await the lucky geocacher can be anywhere from mundane to spectacular. “Katpusskitty” sent us this picture from her recent trip to France. She said the climb to reach the cache was rather challenging, but the view was breathtaking. She left behind a TravelFleas™ tag in the cache as a memento of her visit along with her own trackable “Flea on a Mission”. We would love to see your “View from a Geocache” featured on our website. Please email your story and pictures to admin@travelfleas.com

Hubble Space Telescope discovers Geocaching constellation

Geocaching astronomers are happy to announce the discovery of the TravelFleas™ constellation using the Hubble Space Telescope. For years they thought this astronomical wonder was a part of Canis Major (commonly known as the Dog Constellation), but now they realize this new constellation was simply going “Along for the Ride”.

Dive caching is Fun! Geocaching underwater for TravelFleas :-)

DiveCaching is a blast, just go “Along for the Ride” with a dogfish down to the #geocache and leave your #TravelFleas™ tag in the cache. Keep an eye on your bottom time and practice slow breathing, #TravelFleas™ dive tanks are a bit small ;-)

Geocaching TravelFleas™ discovered in Egyptian Tomb

We can tell from the inscription on this Egyptian tomb that a mummified TravelFleas™ tag lays inside. The Egyptian practice of taking their possessions with them to the afterlife indicates this TravelFleas™ tag went
Along for a different kind of Ride.

Geocaching TravelFleas discovered in cave painting, over 30,000 years old!

TravelFleas™ were once hunted by ancient man as depicted in this recently discovered cave drawing. Luckily modern man only hunts TravelFleas™ using a GPS or their smart phones, hoping to discover one in a geocache or going “Along for the Ride” on a trackable.

Geocaching Trackables TravelFleas sightings - Cajun55's trip to Alaska

“Hello TravelFleas,

We are back home. Alaska is one cold place to visit in December. I am planning to go back in the summer. I cached at -14 degrees Fahrenheit.

Most of the people had not heard of travel fleas. There were about 20 people at the flash mob (GN64F1) and I only had 12 travel fleas with the event tracking code.

Should’a ordered more. :) This was done in the dark. Temp was -19 Fahrenheit and very windy….don’t know the chill factor. Do know that exposed skin hurt!

A story you will appreciate. My husband dropped a TF in a cache without attaching it to a TB. Someone found it and contacted me. They offered to attach it to a TB they were releasing. It was a pleasant lagniappe. I thought it would just sit somewhere gathering dust. oh, sorry….lagniappe is a little something extra, like the ink pen you included with my order.

In Alaska I rode thru a mountain, the tunnel was 2.5 miles long. there are two times when 2.5 miles is longer than anywhere else: walking to the gas station in freezing rainy weather, gas can in hand and when you are driving through a tunnel when you don’t know how long it is and it has a sign that says ” If light begins flashing get to the closest Safe House as quickly as possible. They have been having earthquakes lately. They are on a fault line. Boy did that sunlight at the end of the tunnel look good. Then yikes….we have to go back thru that tunnel to get home. But wait…the tunnel is only one lane wide and the walls are bare rock. That tunnel has three waiting lines. one going in each direction and a train.

And mountains….Anchorage sits in a bowl of mountains with water on one side. My son took me up on a mountain at night and Anchorage spread out before me a lit up. Have you see Los Angeles in the movies at night? It was like that. 180 degrees of lights. I had no idea how big Anchorage is. I had only seen the mountains in the eastern US, Maryland, PA, etc. I was born and raised in south Louisiana where the overpass on I-10 was as high as you got unless you were on a bridge. So I gazed on the mountains mouth gaping OMG! huge is too small a word.

There was snow on the ground but the only snow that fell was the three flakes I saw on the way to the airport. They were however under a blizzard warning so After I left they likely got that snow I kept looking for. But I got home to some snow on the ground…still none falling

Moose…I hear they are to Alaska like deer are to Maryland….plentiful and pesky. Well they must have heard that a Cajun was coming to town. I saw one moose and that one was in captivity. You know the saying a Cajun will eat anything that moves and somethings that don’t? Well I guess the moose must have

Alaska is off my bucket list, but I will definitely be going back because it will always be in my heart.

Shirley aka Cajun55

TravelFleas editor note:

Thank you CAJUN55 for sharing your amazing experience with us. We love to hear your Geocaching stories. Now how cool was that……no pun intended. Please let us share in your Geocaching and TravelFleas™ experiences. To see your Geocaching “TravelFleas™ Sighting” featured on our website, email your story and pictures to admin@travelfleas.com

Happy Geocaching from the Team at TravelFleas.com