Kim and I went down to Waverly, IA for the Ingawanis Geocache Outing this past weekend. Hosted by the Winnebago Council of the Boy Scouts of America and IGO, this three day event was one helluva good time.
Fees for the three days of camping were $5/person. That’s $10 total for three days. No parking fees, no addtional fees, and no hassles. I didn’t have to sell my soul to the DNR Devils, have a sticker on my windshield for eternity, and I didn’t have to deal with guitar playing douchebags at 2AM. The only downside to the entire thing was that they don’t allow dogs on BSA property. So all the savings we had for the camping was thrown down the shitter with Buddy’s $90 hotel stay at Castle Rock Kennels in Farmington, MN.
Kim and I both have half days on Fridays so we went home and got packing. I needed an oil change and some shopping to get done. After getting everything ready and the dog to the kennel, we were off at around 5:30. Camp Ingawanis was about 195 miles South of us and it took a little under three hours to get there. We arrived with a *tiny* bit of light left in the sky but set up the tent in the dark with the aid of our lantern. All that practice putting up our tent in the dark (or blindfolded) in Scouts paid off that night!
The next morning we rushed to get the screened in porch setup as the mosquitos were absolutely unreal! With seconds to spare before the morning rain storm started we had everything up and inside. We spent the morning hours watching the rain from inside our shelter while reading and eating.
Kim wasn’t going to this event for any geocaching so we did very little of that. I did stop at a few in the area on our trips to Walmart but other than that, we basically hung out at our campsite away from everyone and enjoyed ourselves.
I met some nice Iowa cachers including WindChill (one of the hosts), Sir Zman (of Twin Cities Geocaching Podcast fame) as well as many others including some I had met at events elsewhere in the country.
The Scout camp had plenty of activities to offer including horseback riding, archery, rifle, etc. Kim was big into the archery and we spent about an hour there on Saturday being shown up by plenty of young Iowans that apparently have archery as part of their PE classes at school……
Too many people packed up on Saturday or early Sunday and missed out on the cheap camping through Monday afternoon. Kim and I, along w/Sir Zman and a few others, stuck it out and made our way home on Monday.
Kim and I made a stop at Cabela’s in Southern MN for some stretching and lunch. I had a buffalo sandwich which could have been roast beef for all I knew. It was ok.
Anyway, all in all a great weekend. I have some mobile pictures up from the trip here, here, and here. I should have the camera pics up sometime this week when I get some time.
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