Co-starring Jade_Dragon as the Pink Ninja

Well.

It appears that the Nitwits have been bloggified.

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jade_Dragon. I like pirates, ninjas (only the pink ones), the green M & M's , chicken-friend rice, panties, old ugly vans that smell like ass, black sharpies, most animals, good quality toliet paper, anything with glitter on it, stale coffee, Mr. Spock, canned air, Sean Connery, socks, Psyferre's nipples, and, uh....

Oh, yeah. Geocaching. =)

I suppose my Geocaching experiances start in about 2003 with the "Rainy Cache". It was a great first cache that I went on with Trudger, Lac'Nala, Agent Squawk, and two other cacher-friends of Trudgers. Psyferre was absent that day due to working late and buying me an engagement ring (of which I didn't know of at the time). It was a fairly uneventful cache, save for the part where I got to know Lac'Nala by catching her by the butt and shoving her up a muddy hill we were both sliding down. And where were the guys you ask? Helping us? Not a chance, They were snapping pictures. =D

Since then the Nitwits have been through a lot together - being lost in the woods for ten hours, getting stranded and spending then night in a veeery tiny car near an old abandoned school, multiple car break-downs, etc. It gets interesting around here.

So sit back and be prepared to be Nitwit-ified. Or at least mildly entertained. Or confused. We'll take confused, too.

Until next week - same Nitwit time, same Nitwit place!

~Jade~

Psyferre... Sounding off !

Yo ! Welcome to the Nitwits Blog! I suppose we'll post our zanier hijinks here, and somehow I'll try to restrain myself from talking about my nipples, which are fantastic by the way.

Dangit.

So my geocaching adventures began long ago... sometime in 2003. My first cache was in Ashland, KY's Central Park and it has long since been archived. I don't remember much about it and never logged it, so I'll have to tell you about my 2nd caching experience.

We almost died.

Okay, so we didn't almost die... not really... but it was a heck of a day. Trudger and Lac'Nala called us up and wanted to go caching at Beech Fork state park. Beeing somewhat new to the whole thing I imagined that it would be something like the stroll in the park that the first cache had been. Wrong! This cache was a 17 mile hike in and 18 mile hike out! (editor's note: numbers inflated by 15 miles to heighten dramatic effect.)

So we hiked in with no problems. It was a really nice day, I think we got a late start and went into the woods around noon. We hiked about for a while and within a couple hours we found the cache.

"Should we go back to the trail?"
"Nah, looks like we can pick it back up a little further along just over this ridge!"
"Sweet! Less walking!"

If you're ever out caching and hear an exchange like this one, I recommend you find a sharp stick and poke yourself in the eye. You might wake up! We eventually found a trail... it wasn't the trail we thought it was. We didn't come up with that conclusion for several more hours.

We hiked...

and hiked....

and got lost....

and more lost.....

Eventually we called Agent Squawk (who had not been able to go along that day) and gave him our GPS coordinates. He was able to pinpoint our location on some fre map website and tell us what side of the lake we were on, and what the lake looked like around us - that let us pinpoint our location on our map of the park, which had so far been useless since we couldn't figure out where on the map we were. A few hours later, we had blazed a trail back to the car and stumbled out of the woods a little after dark.

Intrepid adventurers, armed with the latest in technology and several maps, lost in the forest for about nine hours. 72 miles of hiking, constant ninja attacks, and velociraptors at every turn! What adventure!

Nitwits, Roll Call!

I'll Begin. My name is Trudger (Pronounced with an -udger). My first cache find was in a local city park, at midnight, with my then girlfriend, and now wife, Lac'Nala. I acquired my first GPS that day and after searching for fun things to do with it on the internet, I happened across Geocaching. I dragged my then girlfriend, now wife Lac'Nala to the park, and there proceeded to "Trudge" around in the darkness and rain, while she watched on from the much less sloppy sidewalk. Well, I found it. A small film canister in the crook between the roots of a tree. I signed the log, and came up with the name right there on the spot. Trudger after the trudging I had just done to find my first cache. Would the rest of the nitwits care to join in on introducing themselves and telling about their first cache?

-Trudger

The First Post

Hello! We're the Nocturnal Nitwits! We are a Geocaching group from the Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky Tri-State area! We do most of our caching together at night. Hence the name. We are also nitwits. Hence the name. :) If you'd like to know more about Geocaching, visit http://www.geocaching.com. It's a a little bit Indiana Jones, a little bit Technophilia, and a little bit Environmental Protection, all kind of rolled into one fantastic, and exciting hobby!

If you'd like to know more about the Nocturnal Nitwits, stay tuned!