LowellHouseGang

LowellHouseGuy

When I first began waymarking and checked to see what was posted in my town, LowellHouseGuy was everywhere, or at least that’s what it seemed like to me. I really liked the places he found so I visited his sites and logged all the ones around my home. From that point, I decided to waymark all the interesting sites near me.

LowellHouseGuy is none other than Bill Abrams who was born and raised in Burlington County, NJ. He lived mostly between Bordentown and Maple Shade, then lived in St. Louis and Ft. Devens for few years each. Bill has worked most of his life in IT for RCA/GE. He was educated @ Temple University, Glassboro College (Now called Rowan University) and CCCC.

Bill is a retired partner in a technology training business based outside Albany, NY. He loves to travel and is an active photographer. He actively supports social justice issues especially Kiva.org. Bill started Geocaching in June 2003 and has found caches on the beach in Normandy France, Istanbul Turkey, Kathmandu Nepal, Canada and many states in the USA. In April through May, Bill will be in China!. He has submitted 273 waymarks, and found over 500 caches. Be is always looking for new places to photograph and certainly China will be a perfect place for that. Good Luck!

Here's a beautiful pic taken by Bill:

Lucky 7

For some ungoshly reason, I love to torture myself with Lucky 7s. The category has made me crawl under every rock in search of the elusive seventh waymark. The category asks you to find 7 waymarks from 7 different departments all within .5 mile. Get it within .1 and you get to double your tally. I never did over 7 per waymark, instead hoarding the extras in the hops of creating more. If you search Haddonfield, NJ, you'll see I figured a way to get 12 with several more in queue. When I go to a new area, I am always thinking about creating as many as I can, maximizing the location. GoogleEarth has been a great resource as well for finding a center point in a mass of waymarks.

I noticed on BruceS' blog, A Number of Ways, the absence of the Lucky 7 category in the statistical analysis of top waymarkers in various categories. Naturally, the one thing I am good at did not appear. Thanks Bruce!!! :0). So, I have compiled some statistics for that category in case anyone else on the planet besides me cares.

• There are 485 Lucky 7 waymarks
• 118 different waymarkers have contributed
• 43 waymarkers have more than one post (36%)

I also made a leader board. You can click on each individual waymarker to see their profile.

• Math Teacher 101 (22.4%)
• Saopaulo1 40 (8.2%)
• WayExplorer 17 (3.5%)
• Go Boilers! 14 (2.9%)
• onfire4jesus 11 (2.3%)
• ucdvicky 10 (2.0%)
• NorStar 09 (1.9%)
• bluesnote 08 (1.6%)
• marbill 07 (1.4%)
• Dorcadion Team 05 (1.0%)

Waymarking in New Jersey

I have decided to begin a blog about the collective waymarking efforts in New Jersey by various indigenous waymarkers including yours truly, Math Teacher.  New Jersey boasts many historic sites, structures and buildings as well as being of huge historic significance in the development of our country.  Without waymarking and the many places it has taken me I would never have discovered New Jersey nor my love of local cultural history.

I am hoping some other waymarkers in New Jersey and elsewhere in my east coast corridor will share their stories and experiences with our hobby.  It sure is a lot of fun and I know I have a lot more to discover and learn and I am hoping to share that with all of you, my fellow waymarkers.

Here are a few of my fellow Jersites and their profiles: