"Not really what I was looking for, for a milestone. " At least it will be memorable B&R, even if for the wrong reasons Well done on finding 1000! Which one was 999?

Sure will be memorable!
Caching by phone, phone battery dies just as the flash fires to photograph the log!
And then to find my lift, who I cant contact, due to no phone! 

Cache 999 was a Virtual. (And one of the 'older' UK caches, even at being placed November 2003)
Lighthouse Hunt - Brighton/Shoreham-on-Sea http://coord.info/GCH600

Have been past it on the bus, and knowing I was going to be close, made a point of getting it this time.

Just a little 'miffed' as recently I've been close to:
Echoes of Echoes http://coord.info/GCG1VH
Steam bricks! ( Co. Durham ) http://coord.info/GC62D7
Under Water? ( Cleveland ) http://coord.info/GCAB1B
and
Steam Power (Swindon, Wiltshire) http://coord.info/GCG0Q7

Just not close enough, or enough time to divert, in order to get a find on them.