The Lolindraths are pleased to announce the Map It feature on our geocaching webpage. The search option here allows you to search for a keyword, Forge, for example.
The results are then returned for the caches with Forge in their name.
By then clicking on the Map It link the map of with the cache location centered is returned.
My wife and I had an awesome geocaching weekend! First we went and hung out with the SEPAG guys in Lorimer park and then went out with some newbies (newer than us, yes, they exist) and found a couple very cool caches.
Yesterday we found five. The noteworthy ones were the Kingdom of the Feral Cats where a cat lady setup row homes (old boxes covered with carpets and blankets) for a ton of feral cats. We saw a couple cats and two deer there, it was in behind a mall in Northeast Philadelphia. The other cool one we found was the old Philadelphia Fairgrounds which is now abandoned and overgrown. It would make a really great park but I guess whoever owns it won’t let it go. Either that or the city owns it and doesn’t have the money to do anything with it.
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The Next Geocaching Excursion
The next time we went geocaching we tried for a cool one in Playwicki Park. We had to climb up a steep embankment onto an abandoned railroad bed and walk to the coordinates.
The first thing we found was a small butter container under a rock with a note that said “Not here but you’re close!”. We were pretty sure the coordinates were off and that it was hidden in an old control box for the railroad but there were some pretty scary wires hanging out so we just skipped checking in there. We did check all around and under it (which would’ve been a good hiding spot).
Google Maps - Our Geocaches
My wife and I have been hard at work on a google map program with a php backend to track what caches we’ve found and which ones we’d like to find. You can check it out here: Our Geocaches. Clicking on a point brings up the coordinates for it, the name and a link to geocaching.com. Blue markers 
indicate geocaches we’ve found and purple markers 
are the ones we plan to find soon.
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My wife and I had planned a really nice trip to D.C. to see the sites and try out geocaching. We tried to find travel bug hotel pretty close to our house so we could take one down there and drop it off there. We searched for a good hour and a half, mostly running up and down muddy hills but we had no luck. We left a message on geocaching.com saying we thought it got muggled and a few other people agreed and the owner checked, it was muggled and the couple travel bugs there disappeared.
We were much more successful in Washington D.C. We found quite a few virtual caches and it also got us out of our hotel room and away from the normal sites to see some cool statues and other sites around the area. It was really fun but we still hadn’t found any real, physical, cache.
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