Geocaching is basically a high-tech treasure hunt using a GPS. If you are interested in learning more about this activity then I would recommend  you look at the official geocaching.com web site.

Who is brdad? brdad stands for "Brian & Dad". It is a user name my now teenage son came up with over 10 years ago when I first got on the internet bandwagon. Actually, it was just a few local BBSs back then! We usually geocache together, but an my son gets older he'll be off doing teenage things more often so I'll be doing some on my own.

We started geocaching in June of 2002. We try to take our time and enjoy our hunts and do not have a lot of time so our find count rises slowly. I do however have a fair amount of geocaching-like experience however as I have made a hobby out of searching for old foundations and other structures listed on early 1900's maps using the map coordinates transferred into my GPS. I also have used my GPS to make rather extensive trail maps of my area.

While geocaching I tend to like to find personalized signature items, cache items that generally would have the makers user name on them, or at least an item the finder would somehow know where it came from. I collect these when I can, and you can see them on them on my Signature Items page.

I have created a slide show / screensaver CD as one signature item for myself. I think it is pretty good, if you would like to see one you'll have to find one in a cache somewhere. For more information, look at my Maine Sights CD page. And now I have a second sig item, Maine photo marbles! Coming soon to a cache near you!

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August 9, 2003: We made the Lewiston Sun Journal newspaper!
http://www.sunjournal.com/search/story.php?ID=23293
Alternate location here

Caches we have hidden:

#1	09/12/2002		A mile from a halfmile
#2	11/27/2002		Old 470
#3	12/19/2002		You Sank My Battleship!
#4	07/24/2003		EaglEyeStash
#5	10/12/2003		Halfmile

Caches we have hunted for in 2005: (Click here for all cache finds)

#464		01/22/2005		Winslow Winter Weekend Waypoint Warrior Wingding
#465		02/05/2005		Head Of Falls Cache
#466		02/05/2005		North Island visit
#467		02/05/2005		The Apple Farm
#13		02/05/2005		Oosoola Park Cache (Was there)
#468		02/05/2005		Skowhegan Watching Place
#469		02/05/2005		A Secret Fishing Hole??
#470		02/20/2005		Old Railbeds, Part 1 (NH)
#471		02/20/2005		I-93 NB, Welcome to NH TB Hotel (NH)
#472		03/06/2005		Kimee #1 (MA)
#473		03/06/2005		Not Crystal Clear (MA)
#474		04/09/2005		The Take A Break Cache
#475		04/09/2005		Slab City
#476		04/09/2005		Oosoola Park Cache
#477		04/09/2005		Arnold's Landing
#478		04/09/2005		Did Johnson Stop Here?
#479		04/09/2005		Wassooooookeag
#480		04/09/2005		Garland Pond Cache
#481		04/10/2005		Take the Shot
#482		04/10/2005		The Stand "With A View"
#483		04/10/2005		Cross Country Trail Cache
#484		04/10/2005		Alaska's Find
#485		04/10/2005		A Sporting Chance
#486		04/16/2005		The Straight & Narrow
#487		04/16/2005		Hooper Pond
#488		04/16/2005		SANDZONE
#489		04/16/2005		Greene Nature Trail Cache
#490		04/16/2005		Twin Brooks Treasure
#491		04/16/2005		A Prince's Cache
#492		04/16/2005		crazy cache
#493		04/16/2005		Falmouth - Harrogate Cache Exchange
#494		04/16/2005		Presumpscot River Cache
#495		04/16/2005		Onkgre
#496		04/23/2005		Heads it's Beer, Tails it's Wings!!
#497		04/29/2005		Bucksport...Who Knew?
#498		04/30/2005		F-101B Voodoo
#14		05/03/2005		Stacked on the Stillwater (Was there)
#499		05/05/2005		Stacked on the Stillwater
#500		05/13/2005		oak point beach
#501		05/13/2005		shore acres preserve cache
#502		05/18/2005		Brewer High School Adv. Math Pd.6, 2005
#503		05/18/2005		The Geissler
#504		05/20/2005		Treasure Pit
#505		05/20/2005		Bangor International Airport TB Hotel
#506		05/21/2005		The 1st Annual Penobscot River Clean-up
#507		05/24/2005		Not So Muddy Pond
#508		05/25/2005		Brewer by the Numbers
#509		05/27/2005		Abbeys Cache
#510		05/27/2005		Splash! Here Comes The Water
#511		05/27/2005		Lake, Sky, Mountain
#512		05/27/2005		Mountain Division Trail Cache
#513		05/27/2005		Grist Mill
#514		05/27/2005		Polar Baby
#515		05/28/2005		I295-Exit 31 Travel Bug Inn & Travelers Rest Stop
#516		05/28/2005		Barnes Leap Signature Cache
#517		05/28/2005		Follow Your Bliss
#518		05/28/2005		Graves Park
#519		05/28/2005		First to Go II
#520		05/28/2005		Monkey See, Monkey Do
#521		05/28/2005		On The Canal
#522		05/28/2005		Highland Lake
#523		05/28/2005		Stroudwater Cache
#524		05/28/2005		Monkezuma's Revenge
#525		05/28/2005		My-cousin-in-Portland
#526		05/29/2005		Where is your mother ?? 2
#527		05/29/2005		Daytripper
#528		05/29/2005		Wreck Cove
#529		05/29/2005		mad-muffins cache of the day
#530		05/29/2005		Leslie's 50th
#531		05/29/2005		Madawaska Bog Cache
#532		05/29/2005		Durham Bridge
#533		05/29/2005		Pleasant Pond
#534		05/30/2005		Carmel Rec Field
#535		06/04/2005		wight's pond cache
#536		06/04/2005		Castine Fort George
#537		06/10/2005		Alex’s Monster Multiple Nightmare (Nightmare #2)
#538		06/12/2005		Branns Mills
#539		06/12/2005		Branns Mills Island
#540		06/12/2005		Low's Bridge
#541		06/12/2005		Great Moose
#542		06/17/2005		Bog Road Cache
#543		06/17/2005		Survival of the Prepared II
#544		06/17/2005		Where's (Mt) Waldo?
#545		06/17/2005		Don't Quarry, Be Happy (500th Maine find!)
#546		06/18/2005		Turkey Buzzard
#547		06/18/2005		Savage Park
#548		06/18/2005		Cobby's Launch
#549		06/18/2005		Launch Lookout
#550		06/18/2005		Slipping into summer cache 2005
#551		06/18/2005		Tinks Treasure
#552		06/18/2005		Cobby's Cache
#553		06/18/2005		I'll be damned
#554		06/18/2005		Sheepscot Quick Stop
#555		06/25/2005		Langdons' Launch (NH)
#556		06/25/2005		"The Cacher in the Rye" (NH)
#557		06/25/2005		colby pond (NH)
#558		06/25/2005		Peace on Earth (NH)
#559		06/25/2005		Moose Hill Picnic Area (NH)
#560		06/25/2005		Another Londonderry Night Cache (NH)
#561		06/25/2005		Night Water (Revised) (NH)
#562		07/02/2005		Chipmunk Palace
#563		07/02/2005		Blue's Island
#564		07/04/2005		Stone Dam Cache
#565		07/04/2005		torrey pond
#566		07/04/2005		king row cache
#567		07/04/2005		crockett cove cache
#568		07/04/2005		holt mill pond preserve cache
#569		07/04/2005		mariner's park cache
#570		07/04/2005		tennis preserve cache
#571		07/06/2005		Blue Sky Golden Dreams
#572		07/06/2005		Maine's Resident Rock Star
#573		07/06/2005		Power to the People!
#574		07/07/2005		Kiwanis Park
#575		07/08/2005		Clifford Lake Cache
#576		07/08/2005		Squish, Squosh, Look at That, Oh My Gosh!
#577		070/8/2005		Nash's Lake Dam
#578		07/09/2005		Maguerrewoc Mountain Cache
#579		0709/2005		WCRR Trestle cache
#580		07/09/2005		Reversing Falls
#581		07/09/2005		Fort Cache
#582		07/10/2005		Bellamy's Treasure
#583		07/10/2005		Pumpkin Ridge Peak
#584		07/10/2005		Time And Tide Wait For No Geocacher.
#585		07/10/2005		Tic Tac Tour of Addison
#586		07/10/2005		Scout This Out
#587		07/10/2005		A Maine Man's Point
#588		07/15/2005		Island Hoppers
#589		07/15/2005		Out On a Ledge Cache
#590		07/16/2005		3rd Annual BBQ cache event
#591		07/22/2005		Knights Pond Cache
#592		07/22/2005		ISLAND CACHE
#593		07/23/2005		Fire Safety Cache
#15		07/24/2005		Lands End
#594		07/24/2005		Cedar Beach
#595		07/24/2005		Troubled Waters
#596		07/24/2005		Strawberry Creek Fairies
#597		07/24/2005		Camp Cache
#598		07/24/2005		Underwood Park
#599		07/24/2005		PineGrove
#600		07/24/2005		ParkFest

Travel Bugs we have placed:

Travel Bugs we have picked up:

Benchmarks we have looked for:

I may be contacted through geocaching.com, user name brdad.

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