{"id":2204,"date":"2013-02-03T18:45:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.2dogsbarkin.com\/blog\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2023-07-02T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T03:53:00","slug":"a-geocaching-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2dogsbarkin.com\/blog\/archives\/2204","title":{"rendered":"A Geocaching Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have arrived at our campground Bottomless Lake State Park, just outside of Roswell New Mexico.<\/p>\n

It is beautiful here and I will post many pictures and tell you all about the campground in a later post.<\/p>\n

Geocaching is one of our favorite things to do especially in an area new to us, as it takes us places we wouldn\u2019t know to go visit.<\/p>\n

So I asked Geocaching.com to generate a list of caches near us. As I was reviewing the map of caches, I noticed that there was a large amount of caches in one area. When I zoomed in on the map, this is what I saw.<\/p>\n

\"Capture\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a geocacher out there with a great sense of humor. Aliens abound<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have arrived at our campground Bottomless Lake State Park, just outside of Roswell New Mexico. It is beautiful here and I will post many pictures and tell you all about the campground in a later post. Geocaching is one of our favorite things to do especially in an area new to us, as it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,24,65,67],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-alien","tag-geocaching","tag-new-mexico","tag-roswell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.2dogsbarkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Capture.jpg?fit=1024%2C471&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3hvz5-zy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2295,"url":"https:\/\/www.2dogsbarkin.com\/blog\/archives\/2295","url_meta":{"origin":2204,"position":0},"title":"Geocaching and the Alien","author":"Wendy","date":"February 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For those of you who saw my previous post about Geocaching around Roswell and the Alien, here is my follow up. 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