From Two Old Crows to Two OBW(?)s

In mid 2004 the decrepit crow read an article about Geocaching and went on-line to investigate. We had a big, cluncky Street Pilot in our vehicle he decided he could go Geocaching using it and created his account as mgbdon. He would hop in the van and disappear for hours, then come back and report on what he found. The delicate crow decided to tag along and see what it was all about. After a while we both got tired of lugging the Street Pilot over the rivers and through the woods. One day the older crow fell down a rock embankment, smashing the screen against the rocks. Bad, and good. Now we had an excuse to make a quick trip to purchase a hand-held GPSr and get back to the woods. We continued caching for months, but decided if there were two of us we should change our screen name to reflect that fact and buy a second GPSr (well, I think the delicate crow decided that). Thus we became the Two Old Crows.

Every now and then we would meet up with other Geocachers at a cache site, as when we met TheHobos who later introduced us to AbbysGrammy, Nashville Joe and Bulli the Wonder Dog. One thing led to another and before you know it we were meeting up more often. On one of these occasions Sharon told us about an idea she had for forming a group so the older but wiser Geocachers would have a reason to meet and greet and stay in touch. The no rules, no dues, no meetings, no responsibilities aspects made it sound very enticing, especially for oldies like us that don't like to do much, so we signed on.

One day an e-mail came from Sharon saying Hobo & His Dream were RVing in the area, so lets get together for the premier, non-organizational, no-meeting, no-minutes, no roll call, first annual (maybe) gathering of the OBW(?)s. Wow, we couldn't pass that up. This first unofficial non-event was held at Spankies eatery in Cookeville and attended by AbbysGrammy, Nashville Joe, TheHobos, Hobo & His Dream and Two Old Crows. Bulli attended from the Geovanni. Now, we fully believe that Bulli's dog years qualify him to officially join the group, but it seems that a lot of our non-meetings are in eateries that won't welcome him. In fact, we remember an impromptu non-meeting at Cracker Barrel in Crossville, another at Steak & Shake in Cookeville--wait a minute--is this why we're all gaining weight?

We are posting 2 photos since invariably someone is hiding behind some else or has their eyes closed or is looking the other way, and we didn't want you to miss seeing everyone who attended the auspicious premier non-meeting event.

Cheers to Sharon for the imagination and enthusiasm she has put into forming this fun group and enlisting new members. You've come a long way, baby, from that first non-meeting of 8 of us. Thanks also to Joe and Bulli whose support for Sharon allows her to go off in 10 different directions at once without getting lost.

Hope to meet the over 100 members there will be by the time GeoWoodstock VII convenes.

Happy caching, everyone.

Don & Andrea

96 and Counting

Our numbers have grown to 96 now and we should be able to hit 100 by the time of GeoWoodstock 7 on May 23 in Bell Buckle, TN. Hope alot of you will be able to make this mega event. We'll try for the largest meeting of OBW(?)'s ever in history (doubt if it will be worthy of the Guiness World Record but we can still have fun). Put it on your calendars and try to be there.

More members

We add another couple to our group:
Kayce&Fox from Melbourne, FL

Still looking for more folks to post their stories on here along with pictures. If you want us to do it, please e-mail your info to us and we'll post for you.

Hope those of you in cold areas are keeping warm.

Sharon(aka abbysgrammy)

Shall we all go along with them?

Posting an e-mail here that I recently received:

Hi Friends and Family - We are doing away with our Pocketmail email account andwill be only using our Earthlink account hmeland@earthlink.net . Pleasechange our address in your address book. Most of you already have thisaddress. We are spending with Winter on our lot in Arizona and traveling fromthere on short trips. Just spent a couple weeks in the desert at QuartzsiteAZ. Will be leaving here early March for a 20 day trip to Peru to visit theAmazon rain forest, Cuzco, Machu Picchu, then Ecuador and the GalapagosIslands.Love and Hugs, Harry & Carole Melander

Sharon

Hello from the Sunshine State

I happened to run into Sharon and Joe one day in Tennessee a few years back and they told me about this 'Club' that I might enjoy.....OBW(?).....being affiliated with. Sharon said there would be absolutely NO rules and NO officers and NO directors and NO meetings and NO committees and NO dues! I figured she was running a fever but Joe said that they had been giving this 'Club' some thought and that if I was interested, they would like me to join. I liked the sound of the NO rules and NO dues and decided to sign up for a membership card. Naturally, there were NO membership cards at the time because there were NO members.

I'm thinking, "This is my kind of club"! Well, it turns out I've met many of the OBW(?) "members" and they're about the friendliest bunch of folks around. Granted, they're OLD but they're lots of fun to spend time with. My wife is not old enough to join the group yet but since there are NO rules, I let her come to a few of the dinners if she pays. I'll be collecting Social Security in a few months so maybe I'll be able to afford to take her out to dinner soon.

Our geo-nick is Cache & Keri and our names are Mike and Joan. We live in Melbourne, Florida and enjoy living in the warm weather along the Space Coast.

BTW, I finally got my Older But Wiser(?) card and it says I'm a Charter Member.....pretty cool!

Back Home Again

We're back home after spending a few days in Houston and the gulf coast area. It was so pretty down there, blue skies and shirt-sleeved weather. When we headed north today it became overcast and drizzly and now it is around freezing. We'll spend the next few weeks enjoying our time at home before we head back down to TX for another hip surgery on March 23(I'll even have the joy of spending my birthday in the hospital-28th). That's all for now.

New Members

NashvilleJoe and I are in Houston on our way home to TN (yes, that's quite a long round-about way to go) and attended 2 geocaching events. We had the privilege of enlisting 3 new members to this illustrious group:
TwoDogKnight
bentlandem
All 3 are from the Houston area. Will post pictures soon.
Also enlisted GreyWolf( a few weeks ago) who lives in Idaho and will get a picture of him soon.

Come on all you OBW(?)'s-post your pictures on here and tell us how you got into geocaching and where you are and what you are doing now.

Sharon (abbysgrammy)