Geo-Jeeper reaches 7000

It was bound to happen! Geo-Jeeper reached a major milestone after leaving us in the dust! We brought them in to the world of Geocaching and managed to stay ahead of them most of the time. Today they found cache #7000 and we are still a couple of hundred behind them.

We had received a recommendation from 2Dee2Dee that we should go to Benicia to do some caching. We thought it was a great idea so we told Cynthia and Mike (Geo-Jeeper) about it and they said they wanted to go with us. They came down for the weekend and we headed to Benicia today. The day promised to be gorgeous weather-wise and it truly was.

We cached our way to downtown. We found some interesting caches as we tried to learn the style of the local cachers. We even ran into the owner of one of the caches. He is a young boy who caches with his friends and is pretty excited about the whole thing. He has found 47 caches and he was all set to give us all kinds of hints about caches in the area. He directed us to one that was just down the street and through the tunnel. It took him 10 times to find it so he told us it was a nano somewhere on the fence posts. We headed through the tunnel and found the cache after a brief search. We didn’t know when we might be back so we were glad for his helpful advice.

After checking out the site of the first California Capitol, the four of us had lunch at the the 1st Street Cafe. It was a small “quaint” place and we enjoyed our lunch. It seems to be a very popular place in town. While we were waiting to be seated, Mike took a stroll down the street to pick up just one more cache! And after lunch we walked down to the water front for another.

The day truly was beautiful! We spent most of the afternoon along the water front. We walked some of the pathways, took pictures, and, of course, found a few caches. We all agreed Benicia would be a great place to retire. Since Larry and I are already retired and settled, we will keep this area in mind for visits if we want to spend a day along the waterfront.

Somewhere along the way, Cynthia and Mike found #7000. I’m not sure exactly which one it was. I do know we took lots of pictures at several of the caches so we were sure to capture the moment. It was an awesome day!