Morton Fox (mortonfox) wrote,
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North Wales - The Groupon bakery errand

Sunny, 57-64°F. Today's geocaching trip was sponsored by Groupon! Well, not quite. What happened was they recently sent me a $10 bonus. So I scanned the whole region looking for a suitable Groupon deal to use that $10 bonus on. I found a $20-for-$10 deal at Hot Breads, a bakery in North Wales, so that's what I got. So the primary goal of today's trip was to visit that bakery and use the Groupon deal. Of course, I did a few geocaches on the way there. Then I stopped at Hot Breads and picked up a big bag of bread, toast, and snacks. Not bad for a free Groupon! Hot Breads is an Indian fusion bakery, so the snacks are curry-filled pastries and the bread is masala-flavored. I'm refrigerating the baked goods and reheating those as needed. That should take care of breakfast for at least a week.

After that, I went geocaching around North Wales, Upper Gwynedd, Lansdale, and Colmar. I'd been through the area recently, so this time, I tried some of the harder geocaches. The most difficult one turned out to be a cache that wasn't meant to be difficult. Apparently, a non-geocacher stumbled across "Alex's Excursion", took it, and tossed it about 130 feet from ground zero. I gave up looking for it but then I saw it by chance as I was leaving the park.

I also found the final caches for two puzzles. "What's At Stake? #18 - Sweepstakes" is a logic puzzle, which I like to do ever since I found out that I could do those. :) "Charis Industria" is a simple research puzzle once you find out what the name refers to.



Charis Industria (Pennsylvania)
Cache in Honour of a Visiting Englishman (Pennsylvania)
Alex's Excursion (Pennsylvania)
Build And Burn 1 (Pennsylvania)
"Y" Look Here (Pennsylvania)
What's At Stake? #18 - Sweepstakes (Pennsylvania)
Bucket o Fun (Pennsylvania)
8th Street's Secret (Pennsylvania)
Watch out below! (Pennsylvania)
Parkside Place (Pennsylvania)
Twisted Twins (Pennsylvania)
Don't Fence Me In (Pennsylvania)
What's At Stake? #34 - Stake You To An Ant Hill (Pennsylvania)
PUN:Don't judge me... (Pennsylvania)
Suspicious Activity 3 (Pennsylvania)
What's At Stake? #32 - 1, 2, 3 Stakes Yer Out (Pennsylvania)
What's At Stake? #09 - Stake Sammich (Pennsylvania)
What's At Stake? #15 - Stakes On A Train (Pennsylvania)
309 Quick Stop (Pennsylvania)
What's At Stake? #03 - Stake and Eggs (Pennsylvania)
Suspicious Activity 5 (Pennsylvania)
For The Cache Lover In You #3 (TAOGC) (Pennsylvania)

Tags: geocaching, groupon, hot breads, montgomery county, puzzle cache
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