The Life of a Geocacher

Today was the first day of the rest of their geocaching lives. Yes, Kendriana & Addison have been bitten by the geocaching bug and they have become official members of the geocaching groupies. Let me introduce Sunkwon and AnaXD! They bravely went wherever we led them and found caches galore!

We started the morning at our favorite breakfast place: The Original Pancake House. Alas, we forgot to take pictures so we may have to recreate this event at a later date. KJ (Kendriana) & AJ (Addison) also took this opportunity to find their first cache of the day: Sourdough (hidden by none other than L3-Geo).

Then we headed off across drain pipes, into the trees, along hot bike paths, and into various parks. We had some beautiful views, some dusty trails, and some interesting caches.

We particulary enjoyed our short trek down the hot arid bike path. Civilization was yards away, the sun beat down unmercifully, water was scarce (except for the zillion pools we passed--some with fountains), and our spirits were at an all time high. What more could you want!

We also found frogs (fake of course) hanging from bison tubes, film canisters in trees, tuperware under leaves, key magnets on fences, and plastic jugs in the bushes. The hardest cache was a two stage multi-cache. Old eagle-eyed AJ spotted the first mini stage cleverly hidden between two boards. Then, he and Grandpa balanced precariously from the hillside while they grabbed stickers to keep from falling and stepped in running water to get to the cache location. KJ and I braved the rays of the sun while we supervised from below.

It was a great day. We are relaxing at the moment and wondering what tomorrow will bring. We think we are headed for Lake Tahoe. We will know for sure tomorrow.