We've Been (and Are) Honored!

I returned to the office this morning (following a couple days working from home) to a package from MiGO. Drie and I were honored at their Winter Social with the "MiGO Silver Geocoin Award." The award package contained a couple of silver MiGO Geocoins and a certificate which read:

"The Board of Directors of the Michigan Geocaching Organization Would like to honor
Darryl and Drie – DarrylW4 and Firefly03
With the silver coin award for 2013.
Congratulations, and Thank You.

Today we would like to honor two podcasters. These cachers are not just known in Michigan, but all around the world as the hosts of, or involved in, several podcasts – Cache-A-Maniacs, Cachers of the Round Table, Geocaching Podcast, and GeoGearHeads. The original Cache-A-Maniacs series was launched in 2007. After 260 episodes, the show was retired in 2011 with having 'a candid, uncut, and irregular interview' with 250 members of the Geocaching community. Cachers of the Round Table featured 36 episodes running from 2007 through July 2011. Their new venture, GeoGearHeads, has produced 58 episodes to this date. The Platinum Level Earth Cache Masters are also known for hosting first class events such as Cachercon 2010 and the Coffee, Coins, and Sigs events. Speaking of coins – they have over 1000 geocoins adventuring throughout the wild. All this and they still made time to find over 5100 caches. The Board of Directors is honored to award Darryl and Drie (DarrylW4 and Firefly03) the Silver Coin Award for furthering the sport of geocaching, acting as goodwill ambassadors through their podcasts, geocaching blogs, and events."

Thank you to the MiGO Board. We are honored to have even been considered for such an award for our geocaching efforts! We also look forward to activating the Silver GeocoinThese special silver geocoins are numbered but not trackable but we will be adding it to our collection of coins special to us which we carry to events for discovery. Catch us at one of those events for a look through those coins and an opportunity to discover those which are trackable.

Unactivated Gifts for the Cache Owner

One of the finders (netinator) on our "Michigan's DeLORME Challenge" (GC1EBKT) cache posted the following in their log:

...Thanks to Firefly03 for all the help in the planning and the completion. We left one of our unactivated Geocoins in the final cache for you if you would like it, if not, the next person can take it as a "Thank You" to this great State.

Well of course she wanted the coin! That's like asking a fish if it would like some water. We made our way over this evening to check on the cache and grab the coin. This coin, like many of the others gifted to us, will be activated and dropping into our special collection of discovery only coins (stop us at any of the major events and we're likely to have it with us if you'd like to see or discover them).

This is such a nice way to show appreciation to our fellow cachers -- both hiders and finders. Many times we've gone out and dropped unactivated coins for the next finder or the cache owner. During the holidays we've wrapped some and dropped them into any cache which would take them in hopes they'd brighten the day for the next person to find the cache. Especially when we find a remarkable hide we like to leave a couple with the hope that the cache owner will be able to get out to claim one. We do it to express our appreciation of the fellow players and we really enjoy both placing them and reading the notes from those who have found them. This is the first left for us though and we really enjoyed the gift, but especially the thought. This one will hold a special place in our collect and of course it's a geocoin and Drie loves getting her hands on as many of them as she can.

Please drop us a comment if you've either found or placed one of these geocoin gifts and tell us the story. We really love reading them!

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