Happy Wednesdays

Well, Wednesdays are always a happy day for me. Mostly because half of the year it means a new LOST is on. Oh, and our team name has nothing to do with that show. It's mere coincidence ... right? :)

I woke up and logged onto the geocaching.com site and realized that there was a new cache out, called "Creek Club" (GCZ1MV). I wake up late, so there were already two finds from pretty prominent cachers in the area, but I grabbed my GPS and headed out. To my amazement, it was within walking distance to my apartment. It was in the front of the local golf course I live on, which is closed currently for renovations. It didn't take me too long to find it. With an open sky, the GPS didn't have much trouble zeroing in on a bush, and inside was a camo container. With only a few people finding it in front of me, there wasn't much worth while inside, but I took a pack of trading cards shaped like cats. I left a John Coltrane cassette tape in return. Was a fun cache, and made me happy knowing one was so close to my place.

I ran back home and immediately searched for another one to find. I found one about 5 miles away, so I hopped in my car and headed toward it. I have to say, 5 miles seems like eternity when one is stuck in traffic.

I arrived at a park which was right beside an elementary school. There were some older people around, so I had to sort of walk around for 15 minutes acting like I was enjoying the scenery. (Not that I wasn't, but I was sort of focused on finding the cache.) Over the course of 10-15 minutes they eventually left one by one. I looked where my GPS was pointing, but it was kind of tricky. It seemed at one point that the GPS was pointing on the other side of the fence, in the school's playground! I dismissed that theory and dug around in the bushes for about 10 minutes. Finally I saw a pipe and thought "well, let's just see if the lid comes off." Sure enough, it did, and it contained a geocaching canister. The cache was totally full, so in order to leave my "First Response" travel bug, I had to take the biggest thing, so it would fit. It was some firetruck beaded necklace. Totally tacky, but whatever. Another find! No complaints.

When I got home I figured I had time for one more before it was time to get ready for work, so I tried to pick an easy one. Found one with a 1/1 rating, and off I went.

Google Earth gave me some bogus directions, so I wound up just following the GPS arrow. Ended up behind an Albertson's. The name of the cache was "Tornado" and the GPS lead me to a sign on the fence labeled "Tornado." These types of things make me really happy, as if I've found a connection not many people have found. Anyway, I dug around in the bushes for about 10 minutes, trying not to look like a crazy person to the few cars and walkers passing by. I finally found another camo container in there and took some sweet looking marbles. In return I left the cat trading cards I had received earlier in the day.

There are a few caches downtown semi-near my work that I am anxious to get out of the way, but I'm sure they'll come in time. I am also anxious to get my girlfriend out there with me, to see if the addiction bites her as it has me.

Well, more to come tomorrow.

Regular_Banana, out.
Team Lost