I had the morning available—the wedding we needed to go to was in the late afternoon. A Bridge Too Far is the cache closest to my boyhood home, where my Mom still lives. It was foggy and there was hardly anyone on the roads early in the morning. However, some guy was parked in his pickup right at the cache site.
So, I drove out to the Shafter Airport for Human Powered Flight—a virtual commemorating the first human powered aircraft (Gossamer Condor) flight over a closed course. This airport was chosen because of the consistent early morning stillness in August.
I drove back to A Bridge Too Far, but the pickup was still there, so I headed out to Buttonwillow. I didn’t particularly care for any of these caches.
The first one I came to was This Old House, an abandoned house that has been completely vandalized. I didn’t pay attention to the description which clearly said you don’t need to go into the house. I did and, after using the hint, actually recovered the cache from inside, but it’s really a dump, and I probably could have fallen through the floor. I don’t think it would have been a hard find if accessed from outside.
Are we there yet? is not too far off of I5. The challenge is to find the right roads.
Next I found a virtual, This Is My Town which is at a plaque which describes how Buttonwillow got its name. Even though I grew up not far away, this was not a piece of information that I knew.
The final one in Buttonwillow was Dude, I Think I Found Your Car. It’s a wrecked car in a very junky place. The cache was not in or on the car, but close by hidden under a wheel/tire.
I came back to A Bridge Too Far and got it. While I was searching under the bridge, I notice that some of the pilings were completely rotted out, and just then a vehicle drove over the bridge. Scary feeling.
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