Driving and Geocaching Route 66 with Rich Havlik: September 2020

Hello Everyone,

Just got home a few days ago from my latest road trip. I ended up putting 6110 miles on the Man Van.

Today, just sharing where I went and a lot of pictures to go with it.

So I started out in Minneapolis/St. Paul area and my first targeted stop was the Mingo geocache in Kansas.

After that, it was off to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to get a couple of old geocaches to help me complete my Jasmer Challenge.

the Tarryall geocache in Colorado which was placed in July of 2000

If you are unfamiliar with the Jasmer Challenge...It's finding geocaches that have been placed in every month since geocaching started which is May of 2000. There is a grid on the Project GC website that helps geocachers keep track of where they are at. Below is mine before I left for the road trip and as of September 18th, 2020.

As of August 28th, 2020

As of September 18th, 2020

As you can see, I am only 2 month away from completing the challenge, September of 2000 and August of 2020.

After Colorado Springs, I trekked to Duchesne, Utah, where my daughter, Hailey, and her boyfriend, Jordan, live. Before I picked them up, I did get a couple of geocaches that helped out my grid and to hit a milestone of finding 2000 geocaches. GO ME!!

The Xmas Tree Cache, placed in March of 2001

Finding 2000 Geocaches near Nine Mile Canyon in Utah

I picked up Hailey and Jordan and we did a couple of geocaches on our way to Rachel, Nevada...aka Area 51.

We explored around Area 51 after we stopped at the front and back gate of Area 51.

A painted boulder on the ET Highway

Hailey and Jordan at the Black Mailbox near Area 51

Hailey and I at the beginning of the ET Highway

I brought them home after a couple of nights there and headed out to Phoenix, Arizona to get a couple of geocaches to help out me finishing my challenge. I only had time to get one of the two targeted caches....that's why there is an empty space for September of 2000.

the Senda de Tonto geocache which was placed in December of 2000

I drove to Roswell, New Mexico, to check out the Alien hype there.

Then finally I headed North to Santa Rosa, New Mexico, which is on Route 66. I headed Eastbound on 66 until I ran out of time and got as far as Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.