Dan Q

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Dan Q found GC3KQK8 RRR11 Pillow talk!

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My partner Ruth is, by installments, attempting to walk the entire Thames Path. Today, I’m on transport support so I’ve driven ahead of her to Culham Lock and the dog and I are walking back to meet her Abingdon Lock before we both come back down this way.

I mostly expect to target geocaches on my return journey, when I’ll also have a geokid with me, but this one basically leapt out at me as soon as I spotted the titular hiding place in an otherwise empty GZ! So I swiped, signed, and returned it while the geopup checked out the local smells. TFTC!

Dan Q wrote note for GC9EXX4 Friar’s Farm – Bisected Byway

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Checked up on this cache while the dog and I were nearby. It’s in fine condition and ready to find. The latch for the container is beginning to rust, but the whole thing is perfectly serviceable. Go find it!

A French Bulldog at the end of a red lead, near a kissing gate in a hedgrerow.
The dog helped check up on the cache.
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Dan Q found GC2F23P A Road Anarchy – A40 Eastbound to Oxford

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No logs here since… 2023!? Mindboggling.

The geopup and I were out running some errands this damp afternoon and figured we’d take a walk near here. Spotting the cache on our radar we took a short diversion to find this cache, which despite not having a visitor yet this year nor for the entirety of last year is in perfect condition. A quick and easy find as cars whooshed past us, then a muddy meander back past the drainage works and on our way.

SL. TFTC, and a pity-FP awarded simply for being a well-maintained but under-appreciated cache.

Dan with his dog on a muddy footpath.

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Dan Q found GCA1K70 Oak Protection

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After claiming the FTF on the new cache to the North East, the geohound and I continued our walk with a wander through thy woods, eventually finding ourselves near this gate. I’d nearly attempted this cache during a previous visit to these woods but IIRC was dragged right past it by impatient dogs, children, or both. 😂

Today, though, it was a QEF for the doggo and I. Fun container and a good size too, FP awarded. TFTC!

Dan Q found GCB2FZ4 Family Fun #2

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FTF! It’s been a while since I’ve typed that!

Woke this morning slightly hungover and figured a nice walk with the geopup might help me feel better. And what an opportunity: a brand new cache only a short way from home!

Jumped in the car and zipped up to Church Hanborough, parking near the cemetery/allotments because the church bells were ringing and all the parking spots nearer to the centre of thy village were occupied by churchgoers. Walked up the paths to the GZ and had sight of the cache’s shiny container before we were even there. Retrieval was quick and easy, but we had to wait a while before we could return it to it’s hiding place because a large group of dog walkers (one of whom was holding court on how he was confident that Donald Trump would soon “dismantle the Deep State” 🙄) were passing.

Dan, wearing a grey jacket at the edge of a wet and wintry forest, waves to the camera with a hand that also holds a dog lead, the other end of which is connected to a French Bulldog wearing a teal jumper.

Soon signed vs returned and on our way. TFTC!

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Dan Q wrote note for GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing

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Checked in on this cache while on a dog walk to ensure the Storm Éowyn hadn’t trashed it. Good news: it’s fine! I need to update the cache description to reflect that the speed limit here is now 20mph, though!

Dan Q did not find GC3PJYY Paradise

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Found the location and the hint object, but a thorough search did not reveal the cache. I think it might be missing, and the previous log (erroneously tagged as if it were found but clearly indicating in the text that it was not, and therefore possibly in need of deletion?) implies the same.

(I initially assumed the cache must be here because if its recent “found” log – this is why its important to log DNFs! 🙄)

Dan, wearing his sunglasses on top of his bandana, looking hot and grumpy, crouches by a tree stump with coconut husks atop it.

Anyway, thanks to CO and keeper for this cache. Without it, we wouldn’t have come up to this beautiful spot in the first place.

 

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Dan Q did not find GC8KR7D Motorway Mayhem (another one)

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The geohound and I braved an explore of this litter-filled GZ but couldn’t spot a cache among the copious detritus before the whiny little thing started fighting to get back to the warm of the car and to the rest of her “pack”. Maybe next time we pass by this way.

A French Bulldog in a teal jumper stands near a diverted traffic sign, half-buried in leaf litter.

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Dan Q did not find GC8TK41 05 – Willow’s Wanders – Eshington Bridge

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An extended search over two visits today by the eldest child and I couldn’t reveal this one. Very frustrating, given that it’s clearly there somewhere (CO performed maintenance just yesterday!). We’re staying in a cabin a little way downstream, so we might find another opportunity to search again tomorrow, weather-permitting. 🤞

Dan Q found GC80592 Coffee, Cache and Dash

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QEF while stopped for a confort break on a long journey North from Oxford. The dog wanted to go with the others into the services, but had to stay outdoors with me and hunt for the cache. Solid hint!

Dan, wearing a high-vis jacker, sits at a bench outside a motorway service station building. His dog, a small French Bulldog, pulls at her lead towards the entrance.
Silly dog, you’re not allowed inside!
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Dan Q found GC8XWKX Shamrock #20

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My mum and I have been visiting Ireland on a geohashing & geocaching expedition. We’d spotted this shamrock shape but it wasn’t in our operating zone so we didn’t get a chance to hunt any of them, until today’s journey up to Knock airport saw us take a comfort break nearby, and we figured we’d come find this cache, at least.

Dan smiles as he opens a zip-lock bag containing a geocaching logbook, alongside a diamond-shaped Irish 'crossroads' road sign.
I’m at a crossroads. Literally, not figuratively.

Found this well-maintained cache with no difficulty at all: I thoroughly approve of a cache that is hidden just barely enough to not be muggled, but not so much as to inconvenience a geocacher who’s sometimes in a hurry! Nice work, FP awarded. TFTC.

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