{"id":1411,"date":"2010-04-12T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:08:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:08:13","slug":"my-world-birthday-geocaching-and-a-contest-for-gps-adventure-tickets-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"My World &#8211; Birthday Geocaching and a Contest for GPS Adventure Tickets in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was my birthday.  Here is a clue to how old I am:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4511028412\/\" title=\"Birthday 002 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Birthday 002\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4511028412_6bdf0e456e-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(If you can decipher the clue you might win something. Go to the end of this post to see if you are interested.)<\/p>\n<p>So how did I celebrate? I went geocaching. My young bride Sweetie agreed to come along. Here we are at the start, you can tell she is eager to get started.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4510998202\/\" title=\"20100407_1 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100407_1\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4510998202_0d42f3c982-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a few hiccups involving uploading and downloading the coordinates where we had to go home to get everything fixed. I mean you can&#8217;t really enjoy the woods without the right technology, right?<\/p>\n<p>So we finally got started and found our first cache.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4510362937\/\" title=\"20100407_4 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100407_4\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4510362937_6a47c08dfe-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We went on a three mile hike in the woods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4510364279\/\" title=\"20100407_5 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100407_5\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4510364279_4de7e78d60-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The red buds were blooming everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4511020886\/\" title=\"20100407_16 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100407_16\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4511020886_f24d7ceeba-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4511023850\/\" title=\"20100407_18 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100407_18\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4511023850_576b405a9f-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you have to get down and dirty and reach up inside hollow trees and hope for the best.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4510371591\/\" title=\"20100407_10 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100407_10\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4510371591_8cffe15c0a-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and sometimes you have to make your way through the poison ivy and thorns<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4510373119\/\" title=\"20100407_11 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100407_11\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4510373119_4cd3a54d53-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and sometimes you have to deal with obstructions in your path<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4510367113\/\" title=\"20100407_7 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100407_7\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4510367113_5d58e66297-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some caches are very clever. Do you see it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4511015210\/\" title=\"20100407_12 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100407_12\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4511015210_a66d384405-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now do you see it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4510376059\/\" title=\"20100407_13 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100407_13\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4510376059_d9d97c3da6-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We, or at least I, had a great time. Sweetie is such a great wife.<\/p>\n<p>For other sights and sounds of our planet from all over check out <a href=\"http:\/\/showyourworld.blogspot.com\/\">That&#8217;s My World<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4510377589\/\" title=\"20100407_14 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20100407_14\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4510377589_dd91c6d858-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Now the Contest!!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">If you are interested in geocaching, GPS technology, and wonderful science museums and can make your way to Baltimore, Maryland I have four tickets to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdsci.org\/\">Maryland Science Center<\/a>. They are having an special exhibit titled: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdsci.org\/exhibits\/GPS.html\">GPS Adventures<\/a>. You have to hurry though. The tickets are good through August 12 but GPS Adventures last day is &nbsp;April 18.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4266156325_62129ab204.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4266156325_62129ab204-271x300.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I really, really, really want somebody to have these tickets. So if you would like to go to the Maryland Science Center and can decipher the clue as to how old I am then email me with your answer at yogiabb(at)yahoo(dot)com.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be very simple. When I get home from work Tuesday evening. We&#8217;ll take the entries, write them on a piece of paper, put them in a hat and SuperPizzaBoy will pull the winner out of the hat and I&#8217;ll be contacting you for your mailing address. You are going to have to trust me.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I ask is that if you get the tickets, please go and then make a blog post about it, and send me the link! I think that it would be a great My World post. I would love to go to that museum and exhibit, but its not happening for the Yogis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was my birthday. Here is a clue to how old I am: (If you can decipher the clue you might win something. Go to the end of this post to see if you are interested.) So how did I celebrate? I went geocaching. My young bride Sweetie agreed to come along. 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