Congratulations to 3nina, Millie Nagel, on her January 2024 SLAGA Adventure Awaits Monthly Challenge win and $10 Gift Card prize! During the frigid month of January, Millie braved the elements and found her five geocaches, each from a different CO (Cache Owner) with one being an event. Millie participates in the Adventure Awaits challenges because they are fun and force her to choose exciting geocaches for her submittals. Being from Red Bud, IL, it's a bit of a drive for her to get to some of the events, but she enjoys meeting, chatting and putting faces to geonames of other cachers once there. The event for her January adventure was one of her favorite events – SLAGA Winter Potluck. She said, "There are so many people to talk to and it seems like there is not enough time. I like volunteering at this and other events when possible." Millie's entries for January are:
GC5HX50 CO: St Louis Game Jam, Wherigo, Meet Me in 1904
GCA49MT CO: Crazy_Kid13, Traditional, There's a hole in the bucket!
GCA9AJC CO: Java1369, Traditional, Guess What?
GCAFEV4 CO: ABagbyGSSI, Traditional, Girl Scout Silver
GCAG053 CO: L Frank and Denmother, Event, SLAGA Winter Potluck & Cabin Fever - 2024
When asked how she got started, Millie mentioned, "My high school classmate 6dancer, Denise, got me started geocaching in January 2009, but I was not immediately hooked. It actually took a few years to appreciate the places and things I saw while caching. Once I retired in 2020, it was full steam ahead! No matter where we go, the geocaching app is always open and I am searching the area." These days, 3nina leaves behind her muggle husband once or twice a week to go caching with 6dancer. She currently has found over 3700 geocaches.
As for a fun or memorable geocaching experience, Millie replied that, " I must be a slow learner (because) it seems 6dancer talks me into things that we should not be doing. One time she had me driving on a walking trail, she kept saying it looks like a road to me!" And recently, they were caching in National City - Brooklyn, Illinois area, which she describes as a BAD area. While caching, a policeman pulled up. Millie shared their experience. "We told him what we were doing and he seemed to know what it was. He proceeded to tell us we were on private property, which the owner has trespassers arrested, plus this is the area that dead bodies are dumped! He was nice and kept an eye on us until we were out of the area. All in a normal day caching!"
Bet you SLAGA geocachers didn't realize that 3nina was so adventurous. Millie, more adventures await you, so have a blast, stay safe, and report back if you ever do find a body while caching. Inquiring minds will want to know!
