Sunol, on the trail of Venona

To retrieve a clue for a geocaching/cipher solving puzzle game the bay area geocachers have been doing the last few years, I hiked up the hill in Sunol Regional Park. Erstwhile communist spy Venona annually issues a challenge. This year he has stolen the Venonium 263 cache. The previously decrypted message was an image of […]

Cayucos and Morro Bay

Yesterday afternoon was Aunt Opal’s memorial in Cayucos, so I drove down, picking up 3 caches along hiway 101 on the way. In the evening in Morro Bay I found two more down along Boardwalk.

This morning I picked up one while having coffee in the Top Dog coffee place and then hunted several just […]

Over Sonora Pass

It was a long day! Karen and I drove over Sonora Pass to highway 395 and then headed off on dirt up to Lobdell Lake (a small reservoir). We were too late for the Aspens to show their fall colors, but this would be a very nice place for that. The road goes through a […]