Place of Honor Virginia, United States
By Bigcall on 28-Feb-02. Waypoint GC3E56

#15484 - 10:25; Day 14 of the great USA and Canada Road Trip with Sol de lune, and the first leg which has taken us from Minneapolis through to Washington DC, is nearly done with our arrival in DC last night. Today we are visiting Arlington National Cemetery before heading back across the river to the National Mall.Collected this virtual as we made our way around Arlington, amazed by the size of the place and visiting some of the notables as we went. Gathered the required information, which was sent to the CO who gave a quick OK.Greetings from Australia and TFTC Bigcall

Found this on 27/1, just sent of the answers. Spent about 4 hours wandering Arlington. Thanks for this tasteful virtual.

We were off to the USA and Canada for a few weeks of holiday, and thoroughly enjoyed traveling around, and visiting the many different places and caches we came across



We headed off to Arlington today, and this cache was first up on our list to grab. We headed in towards GZ, and we very glad to be actually able to visit this spot. We took our time looking around, before silently grabbing the information we needed, and heading off to the final GZ. After a quick walk, we soon spotted the likely object, and made our way closer, where we grabbed the remaining information A great spot here, and one everyone should visit!



TFTC bigcall, our answers have been submitted, and a fav point from us!



Gaz'n'Kab



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Found it at 1143 hrs during a long hot hike through the cemetery this morning.

Some easy math at the first waypoint, and then a surprise at the second. I had no idea this was here.

Thanks for the fun!

Bluelamb03

This entry was edited by bluelamb03 on Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 20:28:52 UTC.

I was quite surprised at where the second part of this virtual took me! Thank you for creating and maintaining this virtual cache!
Email has been sent.

Ce matin, nous avons marché un bon 4 heures dans le cimetière national d'Arlington pour faire les 5 aches... Ouf! il faisait chaud et nous sommes fatigués mais heureux d'avoir réussi.Wink

Cette cache est notre 3036 depuis notre début en fevrier 2013. Merci a flowerman d'avoir placé cette cache pour notre plaisir et ainsi de nous faire sortir pour jouer dehors.

This morning, we walked a good 4 hours in the Arlington National Cemetery to 5 aches ... Phew! it was hot and we're tired but happy to have succeeded. Wink

Fun little puzzle and neat spots in Arlington. TFTC!

OK - didn't realize the virtual would be a multi what's up with this

Answers sent toCO, TFTC.

Lots of walking in the national cemetery today and this is the only cache that I can claim. Thanks for keeping this one available to find.

Ninja'd w. Mochalab. Email sent. Thank you for bringing us here.

Thank you for taking us there. I had been to the first location before but had not been to the second location.
Found with NinjaSockMonkey. He will be emailing on both of our behalves.

Today we visited the Arlington national cemetery
and did a 10 mile walk over it.
Fortunately we were able to solve this virtual cache.
Answeres already sent to Bigcall.
TFTC!
Moosie71

Came down on the SJ Outdoor Club bus trip. Visited Arlington Cemetery and toured some of the area north of the National Mall. Great day with a great group. Great spot, haven't been here since my 8th grade trip. TFTV

We caught a ride to Washington DC with the Outdoor Club of South Jersey and spent half the day visiting Arlington National Cemetery. The view and the inscriptions took my breath away.
We signed in as SJGDC. (South Jersey Geocaching DC)
TFTV~

Took the bus trip to Washington DC with the Outdoor Club of South Jersey and did some sightseeing through DC including a metro trip over to Arlington National Cemetery. We signed in as SJGDC. (South Jersey Geocaching DC). Had a lot of laughs and moments of absolute awe with a great bunch of nuts. TFTV. Thanks Jenny and Johnny for your great planning and execution.

Traveling around the northern part of Virginia this weekend with CM_Ranch and BillHSKC. We are working on multiple Geocaching Challenges. We camped at Burke Lake park last night. This was the 10th find of the day. TFTV!

On a bus trip with the SJ Outdoor Club today. Lot's of explorations and caching. Answers coming via our group leaders BlueSky&pygmypop and or Team Freeman. Thanks for bringing us here and the great write-up!

My nongeocaching hubby and I were invited to spend 4 days in DC with my son and daughter-in-law who was going there to attend a convention. I've been to DC a few times but that was before caching so caching was my mission for this trip. I didn't plan my walk through here very well and ended up walking past the second memorial twice before I was finally made to stop and see what it was. Thanks for making me stop and really look.

Day two of our Virginia Challenges, Mission 4, Cache Run; SillyWillie (Keith Nelson), CM_Ranch (Matt Morrison) and I are hitting the Northeastern section of the state. Our base camp for the weekend is at Burke Lake Park. 10th of 30 caches found today; we are taking the self-guided tour of Arlington while gathering the facts required to claim the find. There are so many stories here, should be a required visit for anyone visiting the area. Solved the clues at 1039 hours and have sent the answers to the questions. Next one to solve is “Decades of Service”, TFTC

The last time I was In Arlington National Cemetery I attended my brother-in-law's full military funeral. Although a sad day it was very impressive. I suggest every American should attend an honors military funeral. The weather was terrible so Cassie and I only accomplished my goal by completing this find. Here is a Favorite. TFTC

This was actually a very difficult cache for me... Not because of the puzzle, but because the 7th person listed on the monument at the second site was a friend of mine. I was taken aback to see her name, but I was glad I could pay my respects to an old friend here.

Klossner sent the email that contains the answers to the puzzles.

A little math, a little walking and the result was a stirring surprise. Every visit to this cemetery, I find something new to be in awe of, inspired by, and they are all slightly heart breaking. This was no exception.

Thank you.

TFTC!

Had a nice walk around Arlington today. Thanks for bringing me to a memorial I didn't know was here. Emailed answers to CO.

I decided that on my day off I was either going to go geocaching or relax at home playing Xbox. Then I thought “Why not do both?” I loaded the GPS with all the caches in Arlington Nation Cemetery (ANC) and began my day of caching. If you plan to do all the caches in ANC make sure you bring great walking shoes and know where the restrooms are in the cemetery. I also ran into a few caches from Austria during my hike through ANC. Thanks for the caches and the history.

In DC doing some sightseeing and got to spend a big part of the day at Arlington. There were some neat virtuals to do here, including this one. Don't think we would've necessarily gotten to see all that we did without the virtuals here. Thanks for the virtual offset with math! Email sent and pic posted of the eternal flame.

Found during our USA Holiday with fitzy_1965.

Enjoyed our day wandering around Washington DC. fitzy gathered the info for this one and sent it off to the CO. A moving experience visiting Arlington.!

Thanks !

Greetings from Australia !

Finally catching up with my Logs !

7341 + 874 = 8215. Found with ACBC 66 during our USA Holiday Adventure !

Our first full day here in Washington DC. After visiting the Phillips Collection we caught a cab up to Arlington. The tour here is sure worth while. Visited WP1 – no question we wouldn’t of course ! – and calculated GZ. Got there and grabbed the info for the CO. I have actually visited the location this event took place a while ago and the impressive memorial there ! Well worth visiting this location among so many here at Arlington!

Thanks bigcall !! A Favourite Point from Me !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers from Australia !!

Today I took off to a bigger hike, enjoying the sun and air. Started off in the Roosevelt Island and then moved on to the Arlington Cemetary. That was a really good portion of exercise.

I enjoyed the views provided in this cache and the questions guided me to be really attentive to the small things. Very impressive place to be - and unexpected second monument. Thanks for bringing me to these places!

Thanks for the pleasure of the cache and being here!

Visited my dad today and we took time to walk around the cemetery. We visited some memorials I have never seen and/or haven't seen in many years. Thanks bringing us to this beautiful memorial!

E-mail send !
TFTC
Merci pour la cache
Greetings from Montréal

Found with UDubNate on a gorgeous Columbus Day morning. TFTVC!

found with delleps on our DC trip

TFTC 1st of 6 finds for the day (found at 1239) while visiting Arlington National Cemetery and enjoying a stroll in the surrounding area between the weekend rains. Happy Birthday to the better half of the team!

Found this one on a cold, wet day during the government shutdown. Be careful if the granite is wet!
Thanks for the Arlington adventure, and for keeping memories of the second event's memorial alive.
Email sent.

During a visit to Washington DC I had put on my walking shoes. I was able to visit Arlington National Cemetery this virtual cache.

Kaiser_F | TFTC

Out with Nessacus in our nations capital this week... not to crowded.. oh wait it's closed!
Got a chance to enjoy the virtuals to their max... Nessacus will be sending our answers...

Have been to and logged the memorial at the Cape as well...

Xiadog and I spent the whole day during the government shutdown visiting the cemetery and solving a few virtual caches. Answers have been emailed. Thanks for placing this virtual cache. We never would have found this memorial otherwise.

Visiting from Wisconsin with marilee76. Had a great time visiting Arlington Cemetery and finding many caches which led us to many interesting places along the way. It was our first time finding virtual caches and it was fun! TFTC!

Visiting from Wisconsin with ValNBoys. Had a great time visiting Arlington Cemetery and finding many caches which led us to many interesting places along the way. It was our first time finding virtual caches and it was fun! TFTC!

Found this one on our trip round in North east USA driving in a RV 30 Feet.
Fun thing to try.
TFTC

Walked around with many other muggles,
TFTC

On the final day of our trip to Washington DC we decided to visit the Arlington cemetry.
The first place was obvious but the second memorial really surprised us. Thanks for showing what we for sure wouldnt have found without this cache.
Answers have been sent by Velberlinle.

TFTC!
#1466

Geloggt mit c:geo für Android - www.cgeo.org

Found today together with Lineflyer on our last day in Washington.
TFTC!

Spent the morning at Arlington....our first visit. Walked around for a few hours in the heat and visited many interesting and historical spots. The changing of the guards was very special

After doing the required calculations, I headed over to the GZ hoping all was right. Arrived at GZ and was surprised by the spot and what monument was there.......I certainly remember that.

Info sent off, response received and cache logged.

Thanks to bigcall for showing me the areas.......Fav point added.

A beautiful resting area for all the brave men and women who gave their lives in defense of the USA. We were fortunate to have witnessed the changing of the guard and a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. TFTC. (e-mail sent)

found it! TFTC email sent

This week one of us had to be in the DC area for a scientific conference. After the conference ended I had one day left to wander around Washington DC and to look for some of the many caches around there. As I had been in DC before I decided to start visiting the places I had not been before. After walking around the Theodore Roosevelt Island I walked along the Potomac to the entrance of Arlington Cemetery. This virtual showed me two very interesting sites. The first very well known, the other in a much more quiet part of the cemetery. But it was impressing to be there alone. Thanks for this virtual! I emailed the answers to the cache owner.

11728 16:16:00 Spent the first part of the day grabbing some challenge caches and then the latter part wandering round DC again. Grabbed quite a lot of virtuals (there aren't many back home in England, so it's nice to be able to get some when you get the chance). COming from the UK, this is quite an appropriate cache.

Visited Arlington National cemetery during our trip to Washington. Used the caches as a guide to which site we should visit, (as well as the tomb of the unknown soldier). Sobering place.

A week of touring and caching with my GeoDad in Washington. A place of honor indeed.

Trobat TFTC From Barcelona Catalunya.

Cool cache! My dad, starseeker1, and I found this while visiting the DC area after my cousins wedding. TFTC! Will send answers tonight.

Email sent. Found this while visiting Arlington National this morning with the Mrs. Thanks for a thoughtful cache!

Thanks for the terrific cache. Found the cache with my son Kipster 11. We came to the DC area for a vacation after attending a wedding in southern Virginia.

A lovely day to visit this hallowed place. Thanks for giving me a reason to visit the second memorial.

This cache was the main target for today as it was one of the few easy Jasmer grid knockouts I have nearby. I had been meaning to make it down for sometime and never got around to it. Went down with my daughter today and the weather was great.

I am not sure my brain was awake when we started as it seemed to take me a long time to do the math to figure out the location of the second. But after swapping back and forth on GPS screens for a bit I was able to get it loaded correctly.

The walk over was nice. We arrived at the cemetery about 10:00 and the weather was perfect for walking. Was getting a little too warm by the time we left a little after noon so glad we had an early start.

This is our first day in the area and Arlington National Cemetary was our primary destination. We enjoyed our time exploring all the history here while grabbing virtual caches at the same time. We even found the kid's great grandfather who is buried here. Will send email with answers. TFTC. Chris

I am in the area from Savannah Georgia for work and of course I remembered my G P S'r so that I could feed this addition of Geo Caching. The coordinates for this cache were accurate and it did not take me too long to have the needed information or log in hand, depending on the type of cache. Thanks for putting this together and for bringing me to this area.
I came to Arlington to pay my respects to my fallen comrades and to get a few more smiles on the Geo map. I made this a little harder than it should have been but eventually found it. I had no idea this was here but it definitely deserves a spot on these hallowed grounds.
Remember, it is all about the miles and the smiles ~TFTC

Found it with my dad Topher_LV while in DC for a vacation. He sent the answer. tftc

Nice weather in a solemn place.

Great caching trip today visiting DC area. Thanks for setting up this cache. Requested info on the way.

Found this one quite quickly during our visit on Arlington cementery.

Greeting from Luxembourg

We came up to Baltimore to see my grandmom is not doing good, and met a lot of family I have never met, and in some cases I was only 5. I am 37 now, so its been a long time. We had to break away and see DC one of the days and it was perfect weather for it. We had a awesome day, and it felt like we probably walked at least 10 miles lol...answers will come soon, they are on the other half's phone.

This entry was edited by TheLoneGrangers on Thursday, 01 August 2013 at 13:42:14 UTC.

This entry was edited by TheLoneGrangers on Saturday, 03 August 2013 at 16:07:33 UTC.

This was an interesting find. I nearly missed it until I realised that I had done the calculations wrong, Luckily I was still nearby and able to reach the correct coordinates quickly. Pity it isn't a little more prominent. Cheers Gav [128]