March 16, 2003
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Well, not sure if this is any kind of Arizona (or even national) record or 
anything, but it is a personal (team) record! Team Ropingthewind broke our 
record for most consecutive days with caches found. The prior record was 8 
days straight. Well, today I gave in and ended the current team record of 41 
consecutive days with caches found!!!

The streak started on February 3rd and after the 9th day, I was quite happy 
to have beaten the previous record. 9 days doesnt seem like a lot... but 
look at your cache list and see how many days straight you have gone with a 
cache FOUND (It would be interesting to hear of others totals on this 
unofficial stat). You will likely see some small streaks of several days, 
but there are always days here and there you dont go caching. I have been 
caching since early January 2002 and after a year and 3 months of caching, I 
cant find very many streaks of any more than 3 or 4 or 5 days straight 
within my team specific stats. There is always a day or two here and there 
where I didnt go caching (or didnt find a cache). Well, the record continued 
and, well... it was hard to want to stop! I always made sure I got a cache 
find each day! Some days I got 8 or 9 caches on bigger caching days and some 
days I just squeeked in one. A few days ago... I almost didnt get any and 
then around 10 or 11pm, a new cache popped up and I ran out to find it and 
found it! :) The streak continued!

However, today it just was not convenient.

Today March 16th... it was raining all day and our planned caching trip to 
Four Peaks and surrounding area was not to be (I stayed home and enjoyed the 
NASCAR race, so all was not lost.. what a finish!!!!!!). I dont really have 
but a few caches left in the valley to get and they are pretty much on the 
NW or North side of town. I didnt really want to drive all the way up to the 
other side of town for 1 cache, especially considering gas is around $2.00 a 
gallon now! I enjoy caching, but gas prices are getting way too high these 
days and I have been consolidating my caching trips with jobs/business trips 
and errands and such. I will only drive a greater distance if I can get a 
good number of caches (10 or more or so). Anyways, with that.. I end our 
team record of most consecutive days with caches FOUND at 41 days!!! During 
these 41 days, I found 111 caches. Within this record streak, we also broke 
another team record of most caches found in a month! Our previous personal 
team record was 69 caches. In February, we found 80 caches.

This record would have ended next weekend anyways as I will be in 
Albuquerque, NM for a competition and will not get any caches that Saturday 
(although we will likely get a couple caches on the way home as we drive 
thru the Show Low/Pinetop area). All in all, I am kinda glad to stop the 
streak. I have been planning on slowing down from caching until gas prices 
drop and only driving when I need to (I am a businessman (!) and I tend to 
watch where every dollar goes!). Although, I will still keep caching! (hey, 
it is a way of life! I am not addicted though!). :) :) :)

Scott
Team Ropingthewind

Team RTW's official web page
http://www.safwp.bravepages.com/geocaching.html






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