Geocaching interview, and some weekend Waymarking.

A month or so ago I got in contact with the director of the Marion County Parks District after she had posted on the GC.com forums. Essentially she had heard about Geocaching and thought it might be an activity the Parks District would be interested in. I've spoken with her on a few occasions and also presented Geocaching to a few groups in the area. She passed my name on to Marion's local newspaper, The Marion Star. After exchanging a few emails and phone calls with a reporter there, I stopped in there to do an interview for an upcoming article on Geocaching. Basically we met at the paper's headquarters where we talked about Geocaching, and I showed her around the website while a photographer took a few pictures. The reporter mentioned that she had read an article about Geocaching in a magazine over the summer, and was interested in it, but didn't know where to start. She, and the photographer both seemed to be excited about it on a personal level, so maybe they'll start caching.

After a few minutes in the office we went out to find a nearby cache. I was hoping to take them to a more traditional cache in a more interesting area, but it was pretty snowy, so some may have been a little dicey to find. The one we finally settled on was within walking distance, which made it much easier. It was a micro in one of the towns newer downtown pocket parks. As I mentioned, I would have liked to have taken them to an ammo can or something, but this one was ok in the end.

I'm not sure when it'll make the paper, but when it does, maybe I can Waymark it under the News Article Locations. Unfortunately while I was there, I forgot to get coords and pics to mark the Marion Star under the Newspaper Headquarters.

Today started out very foggy, and while we both wanted to get outside we just couldn't until around noon when it finally cleared up. After grabbing some lunch we visited a few places around the Columbus area. I managed to Waymark a Freestanding Arch, which I still need to add a few pictures to. I just haven't gotten my film developed. I also snagged a couple of Ohio Historical Markers and a Worldwide Cemetery. One of the Ohio Historical Markers also falls into the Irish-American Historic Places category as well. I so managed to sneak a visit in for an Ohio Historial Marker.