This is a short summary of the original Finnish article “Mistä tämä kaikki hölmöily nyt taas sai alkunsa?” I started to write this only in Finnish, but maybe I should put also some words in English, maybe a short summary in the beginning of each text? I don’t know if anyone really cares. Or if anyone actually reads these.
In Finnish geocachers group in Facebook, there was a discussion about how many municipalities people had visited. There are many who have already visited all Finnish municipalities and found at least one geocache in each of them. In Finland, I have mainly focused on southern regions with some also from Lapland. In the figure, the municipalities from where I have found geocaches are green, and the rest are red.
During the years, I have been cycling a bit. So, somewhere inside the grey pulp that some people call brains grew an idea to take a cycling tour and get some municipalities green in the geocaching map. The most promising area is the Ostrobothnia, the costal area of the western Finland.
The idea was to take a 10-day tour, starting e.g. from Seinäjoki and try to visit as many new municipalities as possible (and find a geocache also in each of them). Rough plan is to cycle ~80 km per day. Some very early alternatives are in the figure below.
At some point during my planning, I started to follow Taneli Roininen who has been cycling around the world since 2014. Currently he is in Chile (or Argentina, or somewhere there). Reading his text is entertaining, a lot can happen during such a tour. As a comparison, my planned tour looks pretty small-scale as you can see in the picture below.
More to come… maybe.