This week I’ve been fighting a cold, but today I felt reasonable enough to get outside, so I headed east. As I was heading up the Altamont, I realized fizzymagic’s Signs and Wonders was on the way. Went off on Grant Line Road and this was a drive up at 11:37 AM. But, this is the smallest cache I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t hard to find, but it was so small it took a while to open it, get the log out, sign the log, and then reassemble it. As part of the cache log, I needed to upload a wacky road sign.
The bridge is very close to 280. In fact, you can see it from the west bound lanes, but getting there… well, that’s another story. Good thing I was driving the Honda today. The navigation system maps came in handy. Once at the bridge (a railroad overcrossing), I had to hunt a bit, but by finally ruling out where it couldn’t be, I narrowed it down and found it at 12:53 PM.
Jaywalk was just off Yosemite Avenue on the way into Manteca. It’s a multi-cache that spans a road (hence jaywalk). I thought the coordinates for the first stage were off just a little, but the hiding place seemed obvious. It was under a light pole housing and gave new coordinates for the second stage of N37° 47.690 W121° 14.853. The final stage was also a quick find at 1:24 PM.
MANNNNN-Teca is an old Ron Streeter cache. It hasn’t been logged since June 26, 2004. The cache is hidden along the Tidewater Bikeway. It was actually a quick find at 2:46 PM. At one time it was very well cammod in a foam container. But some of the foam has broken off. This caught my eye–otherwise it would have been hard to see.
A couple of miles away on the same bikeway is Manteca Bike Trail. Found this one at 2:46 PM. I DNF’d this one before, but got serious with the bushes this time and found a cammo stump (far too big for these bushes) with the cache hidden underneath in a hollow.
Had dinner tonight at Chili’s, and on the way home thought I’d stop and see if I could find Prospero’s Prolific Programming Primates. I had solved this puzzle cache a few days ago, but the couple of times I checked the location it was too busy with muggles (and a guard Chihuahua). I didn’t have the GPSr, but managed to find it almost immediately (without a flashlight). What luck. Mission accomplished at 7:15 PM.
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