I now understand why what goes on in Vegas stays in Vegas. It’s because you can’t get anywhere and if you do, you may never find your way back! We left the hotel at 7 and headed for Starbucks where we could get good coffee and access to the internet. Once we were back on the road, we couldn’t get where we needed to go because of the gated communities and the streets that didn’t go through. Plus, the weather finally caught up with us and it just wouldn’t stop. OK, it was not a heavy rain, but it was a persistent rain! And it was cold and windy!!!
It was a tough morning for us as far as geocaching goes. I’m sure the rain didn’t help, but we had difficulty finding some easy ones! We stopped at one that we knew was in a storm drain. No way were we going to even try to find it! The water was pouring down the street (like a small flash flood) and the cars were a little too close for comfort. We may be obsessive cachers, but we are not stupid cachers!
During the day we actually found the final cache for the Nevada County Challenge. The cache was located in cache owner’s front yard. We knocked on his door, per instructions, but he was not home. We spoke briefly with his wife, found the cache, signed the log and headed off into the wind.
Right after finding this cache we made a quick lunch stop at Baja Fresh. It was nice to be indoors. The really best part was that we could remove this challenge from our ToDo list. Now we can concentrate on the California County Challenge and the Northern California Delorme Challenge. We hope to complete both sometime in 2008.
The wind picked up even more in the afternoon and Larry was almost blown over a couple of times. Fortunately, he made it back to the car. Of course, it took him 30 minutes to go four feet against the wind. By the time we got back to the hotel, we were very grateful. Our dinner consisted of snacks and wine. That was all we needed after the day we had.
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