Dan, Janet, Karen, and I started our one week vacation to Bend, OR and we decided to leave today (check-in to our rental is tomorrow), make a more leisurely drive, and break up the trip with some geocaching. Dan had gathered about 300 caches along the route going through Sacramento. Since I wanted to go 680, 80, and 505, I gathered a few along that route.
We left at 9:00 AM and made our first geocaching stop in Benecia close to where the mothball fleet is anchored. Cache the Caboose (10:14 AM) was a micro hidden under a caboose on display in an industrial area. Just down the road hidden in some bushes was Mothball Fleet (10:19 AM). The view from this cache was about as close as one can get to the mothball fleet from land. Finally, before getting back on the freeway, we found Mothball Vista Vista (10:29 AM). This one required a short, steep uphill climb which was easy enough, but a bit more challenging on the way down (slip ’n slide).
We drove along the frontage road along the marsh area and found MarshView (10:41 AM), then proceeded on to find Decisions…Decisions (10:48 AM).
When we got to Vacaville, we found Double Helix (11:16 AM), a simple puzzle I had solved and then told Dan to give it a try. While we were in the area, we found A lonely green bench (11:25 AM) and Deadline USA (11:34 AM).
Back on the freeway, we drove to a Dunnigan rest stop, found Dunnigan, Again (12:11 PM) and had lunch.
We stopped in Redding looking for the Sundial Bridge. Unfortunately, I had failed to load any caches for that area. But we found Big Bear and the House of Terror (2:41 PM). We did find the Sundial Bridge and walked over it–interesting and impresive. GEO-CACHE (4:08 PM) was in a shopping center parking lot, but not a lamp post hide.
We grabbed a burger in South Weed and then stopped at the Living Sculpture Memorial Gardens to see the sculpture and to find a couple of caches. First was Living Memorial Sculpture Garden (6:21 PM) and then Remember (6:38 PM). While we were walking there were a couple of peals of thunder and a brief shower that got us pretty wet. Great experience.
We stopped briefly at the border to find Cal-Ore (7:43 PM), and then continued on to our motel in Klamath Falls. After settling in to our rooms, Dan and Janet were ready to go out for some night caching, so I went along.
Pails By Comparison (8:58 PM) was right down-town on main street (in front of city hall, I think). Because of the time, we didn’t stand out very much. Title America (9:05 PM) was in a dark parking lot. Ace in the hole was in another deserted, dark parking lot. There didn’t seem to be much around, but after searching for a bit we found it. Beaming on RalanN (9:24 PM) was a virtual where we had to count rays. Tile City (9:33 PM) was another virtual that was time consuming–too many tiles to examine.
We looked for “You’re in” Deep Doo Doo, but all we found was a very active hornet’s nest, and we decided not to search further. We easily found Blue Diamond 2 (10:15 PM). The sneak II (10:22 PM) was wet. Babe Watch (10:30 PM) was our last hunt.
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