National Park Geocoins - I'm intrigued

Yesterday, after a stressful day at work (these standardized testing days - with crazy schedules and long hours of silent assessment brings out the worst in kids and teachers by the end of the day)- we shook it off by grabbing a picnic basket, bottle of wine, and our geocache box of supplies and heading for the hills....  I had been looking over the local choices and ran across a geocoin that was recently placed in a nearby canyon cache- a National Park geocoin!  Because some of my favoritest places are NPs, I have been considering ways to create geocoins of the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone.... this was one I wanted to see!  So off we headed to find the cache and pick up the coin!

 

Along the side of a twisty highway, in the dusky glow of twilight, we climbed among rocks, then picked our way down to the river to enjoy the sounds of the blurbling water

 

 

to claim this little beauty:

 

 

 

 

finding another "volcano" site may be a challenge- but I'll find a connection to move it along.

 

In the meantime, I looked up the company that made this coin and am excited to see that they have a series of NP coins- most are no longer available for purchase, however.  I bought a Zion NP geocoin- the newest in the collection.  What fun!  Hopefully I will have better luck getting one sent on its way to an adventure (my first travel bug is stuck with the first person who picked it up!  That is another story . . .)

 

Perhaps I'll send the volcano geocoin up to Washington - to mingle with Mt St Helens!

 

Have gotten in 6 caches in the past two days. . . . tomorrow I will tie or pass up my mindsay geocaching buddy and mentor iliketiedye . . . . seems like only yesterday I was lamenting the frustration of not being able to find even one of two I tried to find on my first trip out!  It was her encouragement and sense of humor that kept me going- and got me hooked!  (Shared the volcano coin and story in classes today, so I'm passing the bug along! ).  Thanks Julie- I think of you every time I'm out there walking around in circles talking to myself!