After getting some small jobs done at home, I decided to look for some caches somewhere—anywhere. Wasn’t sure where, but decided to start in Livermore.
First I found Wood N’ Red at 1121 hrs. With no baseball practice today, it was fairly easy. This was a foliage hide in a small redwood tree.
I failed again to find Frickin’ End, but I looked for quite a while. Then I tried to find Altamont N’ Vasco. Vasco was so busy I just didn’t want to search where the GPSr pointed. This might be one for a night hunt (discreetly though).
I noticed this morning that Passarella Iliaca (Pleasanton, CA) had been replaced yesterday. Both Dan and I had tried to find this one several times, but we were convinced it was missing. Apparently, it was. It still wasn’t quick to find, but I got it at 1312 hrs. This was also a foliage hide, as we rather expected.
As I drove by Lions–It’s Free, I noticed the surrounding area was free of muggles—a condition I had not often found. I took advantage of it, and found it fairly quickly at 1321 hrs. While I was expecting a magnetic cache hide, such was not the case. The film canister was up above a lip inside a freebie newsletter rack.
From there, I drove over to the Senior Center and noticed that it was deserted today, so I wandered around gathering the info needed to solve A Senior Moment multi-cache. My derived coordinates gave me a quarter mile hike to an interesting structure where I had to search for a while before finding it at 1415 hrs.
I had searched for Retirement at the Senior Center before, but didn’t want to make the search because there were so many people there. Today, it was easy, although I had forgotten my solved coordinates and had to resolve everthing again. Found at 1422 hrs. I used the clue, but probably didn’t need to. There aren’t many hiding places.
Although Karen and I had just been to Val Vista park yesterday, I didn’t try to solve Viva Val Vista multi-cache. Even though there was a large crowd of skate-boarders and BMXers, I was able to gather the info required, go to another part of the park, and make the find at 1515 hrs.
I checked the water flow for TNLN I Don’t Think So #2 and it seemed very reasonable today—down quite a lot from last Saturday when I didn’t want to go with Dan. Almost fell on my rear at a slippery spot, but found the cache and made the exchange of a stuffed creature. I took Blue’s Clues and left a talking thing that says, “Now you see me; now you don’t.” The GPSr zeroes in the middle of the north bound off-ramp to Stoneridge from 680. I accessed it from a storm drain on the west side of 680 (in a neighborhood) and crossed under the freeway. The cache was secured to a ladder in a blocked off crawl hole. As I was walking out of the drain, a dog-walking muggle crossed the bridge in front of me and stared for the longest time. I just waved and smiled.
Yesterday, Karen and I had looked for TNLN I Don’t Think So #1. We didn’t find it, but after looking for just a short time a couple showed up taking pictures of each other right in the search area. Today, I didn’t have that problem and after a bit more looking, found the cache at 1613 hrs. I took a 1984 nickel and left a 1985 nickel. It’s dark under the bridge, and a cammoed film canister stuck in a knot hole blends in real good.
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