Old Year About To Depart......................

and we're all safe and sound and tucked in for the night. No "party hardy" for these old folks. No new caches to look for tomorrow so might just sleep in unless something shows up on the 'puter tonight. Becky was whining a bit this afternoon because she only needs 3 more caches to reach 1100 finds. The only ones she could locate were tucked up in the hills and required a considerable hike to find. Guess we'll take the Rhino out later in the week to the Buttercup Sand Dunes and look for some. There's enough out there to put me over the 1100 mark too. Temperatures should be getting better by Thursday, forecast is to be in the low 70s by then. Sounds like a good time to explore the dunes. Out geocaching buds might be back from The Slabs by then so maybe we could make a day of it.

Damn "check engine" light came on in the Suzuki a week or so ago. Figured I'd better get it checked out this morning..........$150.00 later the light is off and I have a new thermostat. This freakin labor is absolutely ridiculous!!

Tried a new breakfast spot this morning while car being worked on. It was "so-so" and the waitress said that this was the last day they'd be serving breakfast....it was a restaurant/sports bar that we keep driving past but never stopped at. No great loss on the the demise of the breakfast menu.

Posting a couple of pics of our "Road Rally" cache adventure. The official photographer is slipping a bit in her picture taking. Maybe the new year will take us to new places that'll be worthy of more photos.

Wishing everyone has a terrific new year. Wayne & Becky

Made It To Saturday..................

and the last few days have been mostly uneventful. Becky lost a bet to me last Wednesday evening, a new cache came out and it was too far for us to drive since we know some cachers who live in the vicinity. I bet this kid (actually a school teacher who's in his 20s) would be the first to find. Becky bet on another friend and both of them live a little over a mile from the new cache. My man won! La84fishn also picked my man. The bet was for lunch and Becky said to invite Larry and Audrey for lunch too and then we would try to find the cache called "Road Ralley" which we tried on Christmas Day but had to give it up. The cache we had bet on was placed at Burgers 'n Beer, a sports bar that had just been remodeled. We met Mr. & Mrs. La84fishn at B&B, found the cache and had a pretty nice lunch...........actually a VERY GOOD lunch, mainly because Becky was buying! We started off looking for the cache at about 1230.......don't know how far we drove, got sidetracked and off course a couple of times and made a nice tour of Yuma. Eventually we found all the clues and came up with coordinates that were to lead us to a tiny capsule that gave us the final resting place. We had been at this for nearly two hours, traffic sucked so we called the cache owner to see if we intrepreted all clues correctly. We were one number off..........! Fortunately the cache owner, Magimark, took some pity on us and told us where we made the mistake. Becky came up with the correct answer and we were on our way again. Found the cache and we were so glad to get it out of the way that the official photographer forgot to take any pictures of our travels but managed to take a couple at the end of the trip. It was a nice afternoon and took close to three hours to complete.

Friday was our "domestic" day so did laundry and cleaned up the house. End of day!!! Didn't do anything else except Becky fixed up a nice pot roast for dinner. Today was another slow day........mainly because it's been COLD down here, I think the high temp today just barely made it to 61!! Supposed to be mid and upper 60s until Thursday when we expect to break the 70 barrier. Maybe we'll get out and about a little more then.

We did take in a movie this afternoon and after that had lunch at the restaurant about a block from the theater. We keep driving by it, the name is Happy Chef or something like that so "B" thought a nice chinese lunch would be good. Surprise, surprise.......when we pulled into the parking lot we both saw that the name of the joint was "Happy Greek Chef"! Whadda surprise as we both had been under the impression, for the past three winters, that it was a Chinese restaurant. I said I'd check the menu but don't be surprised if I leave. It turned out to be an American style restaurant that served breakfast, lunch and dinner.....breakfast served all day long, my kind of place. I opted for something else and Becky tried the pork tenderloin sandwich. It was a very good lunch so we'll be back.

Grabbed a cache at the new Walmart on the way home and ended day. Got the electric heater running so we're in for the remainder of the evening. B&W

Survived Christmas And...............

managed to find parts for my broken satellite dish. Got it fixed and up and running so am happy with my MTV again. Now have it weighted down with an extra 50 lbs of junk since high winds are expected this coming weekend. Here's a picture of some of the visitors for the cache I planted at the entrance to our lot. Riff Raff2 and Bronco Busters are friends we've made from previous Yuma visits. Here's the cache we found on Christmas day. Mommy+4 and hubby visited "Sweet Spot". She does her caching with her four kids and husband is a traveling nurse. They spend about 3 months at a location and then move on to where ever they're sent. Home school the kids....a real neat family. We looked for a cache about midnight last night, froze our butts off and finally had to give up on it. Some of our friends stopped by this morning and they couldn't find it either. JJ and Third Times the Charm also stopped by Sweet Spot this morning and they went looking for the new cache. We decided to look for it again before shopping for satellite parts. "JJ" accidentaly found it so he left his signature feather on the caches he was FTF. Third times the charm was still hunting when we arrived and it was whipping us again. "JJ" whizzed by, stopped, took pictures and gave us a little hint. We signed the log and slunked off with our tails between our legs. "Waggy" of the Blood Hound Gang whipped a bunch of us with this one before "JJ" found it. About 1600 another cache showed up about 24 miles to the east of us. We shot out the door since it seemed like it would be an easy one to find. We looked, drove down several dead end roads, found a 75 feet embankment and coordinates said it was still 100 yards away. We finally gave up and figured the coordinates were off. Stopped at a little kiosk at the way out that had information on petro glyphs in the area. I reread the print out and told Becky that this is where the cache had to be. We were 3/4 of a mile from the given coordinates. I beat the bushes, found some footprints and found the cache! "JJ" and "Paw Paw" from the Blood Hound Gang came to the conclusion that we did and were on their way out when they spotted us. I told 'em follow the footprints and they made the find too. "JJ" said he even scrambled down the embankment, ran into the Gila river and was still 235 feet short of cache coordinates. That's when he gave it up and met Paw Paw. "JJ" blamed his late arrival on the anchor he was dragging. He was at work when notification came in, took off and drug his trailer with him as he's going camping this weekend.

Interesting find, see this link for our adventure:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=f6125515-9cf3-47c9-865d-622b4b9ed525&log=y&decrypt=

You'll have to cut and paste it. This was our 20th FTF and the second for the week. We're ahead of schedule.

Later, W&B

Merry Christmas.........

.....just got back from dinner at our local Chinese Restaurant. We started off for the Golden Corral and arrived there at 1554, yanked on the door, it was locked. Started for the other door and was just about ran over by a little old granny lady heading for our door. She said "the door's locked!" We than stood back and looked at a little 6 x 8 inch sign that said the Golden Corral would close at 1545. That's how we ended up at Chinese. Oh well, it was still pretty good.

Yesterday I decided to place a cache at the entrance to our RV lot, filled up an ammo box with bite sized candy bars and called it the "Sweet Spot". Invited all to drop by for a treat. Couple of people showed up late last night, as it didn't get published until about 2100. Today we kicked back and watched it during morning hours. People would show up and we'd go out and have a chat with them. Saw a lot of friends we've made in Yuma and were able to attach faces to some we only knew by their names. It was fun watching them. Finally left about 1300 to find a cache by Mittry Lake, we had to find and log one on Christmas Day. Found that one and looked for another one that had many clues and was designed to run us around town. We made it about half-way and ran into directions that made no sense at all. Retraced our steps and couldn't figure it out. After dinner I looked up the website again and found that errors had been made and we didn't have correct information to continue. Guess we'll finish it with the new information some time this week.

Woke up in the wee hours of the morning and the old M/H was being tossed around by a wind storm. I got up and went outside and found that the TV satellite dish had been blown over and the LNB arm broken. Internet dish was shielded by the M/H so we were lucky that it didn't blow over. That one would have been expensive to replace. I took it down to be safe and set it back up this afternoon.

Gotta get up early and go looking for replacement parts. Sure is a bitch to have only three channels to watch via antenna!!! Guess I'll survive.

More later if anything interesting happens. W&B

End of Day Sunday.............

and we got a late start this morning. Some new caches were published late last night and we just said to heck with them. One was about 19 miles up the road and the other one looked like it would take several hours to complete as it would have us driving all over Yuma. Nothing simple. We took in a movie this afternoon, Charlie Wilson's War" or something like that. At least it kept me awake all the way through it. Started to go to the casino when we realized that tomorrow was Old Folks Day and we would be going down to collect our free $10.00 so drove on by and finally ended up near the Army Proving Grounds. This put us close to a new geocache so we went out there to pick it up. We had found it earlier but it was moved since it was too close to the Border Patrol check point so we could find it again and log another find. It's all about the "numbers", well for some it is. I laughed my butt off when we passed through the check point, the officer asked where we were going and I glanced at my GPSr and said "about 3/4 mile up the road". "Geocachers" he said, "that's my cache you're going after". We shot the breeze for a minute and proceeded on our way. I was almost rolling on the floor laughing because "JJ" had made a complaint about the cache being too close to the Border Check Point and the Geocaching Administrator made him move it. It was owned by a Border Patrol Officer. Later in the evening we saw "JJ" and I told him the cache owner who had to move his cache was a Border Patrolman who worked at that station. "Oh Shit!" was all he could say. I'm still chuckling when I think of it.

We got home and about 30 minutes later another new cache was published. It was downtown about 13 miles away..........we weren't doing anything so we left to hunt it down. Took us about 20 minutes to get there and two cachers were already looking but hadn't found it. We started looking and about 10 minutes later "JJ" shows up. Another few minutes and Becky shouts "I think I found it". Yep, she shore did. Joy reins throughout the Yuma area as we beat "JJ" for a FTF!!

Publishing some pics of our days activity. Moon was coming up as we headed home.
W&B

Today Seems Like It Should Be................

Saturday......Got up late this morning and decided to forego our weekly laundry duty. Some new caches popped up last night and I went after one while Becky snoozed. Got there second so today we had to go back so "B" could officialy make the find. Next stop was near a Border Patrol checkpoint. They didn't come out after us but after reading the logs for the cache it seems like they weren't too happy with a cache being placed there. They came out and searched cars for other cachers. We ended up alongside a canal looking for a "nano" cache. I talked to the owner the previous night and knew what it was; but, still had difficulty in finding it. I finally reefed on a corner post and it gave up its contents. I'm about done with climbing rocks to find a cache but we were able to drive up a canyon and get pretty close to our fourth find of the day. I made the climb and the find while "B" took pictures. The cache was found by Jeep'en Jumpers last night so we had to go find it. The climb wasn't too bad.....knee injections are helping out!! "JJ" leaves a feather when he finds a cache and departs without anyone seeing him. I find the feather and pay special homage to it. Signed the log and we're back home.

Windy, windy today and getting cold..........I don't think it got out of the 60s today. Brrrrrrrrr...........That's all Folks. W&B

Some Pics Of The Last Couple Of Days..................

Frank and Suz at one of our caches the other day. A cache came out late at night about 3 blocks away so off we went. We had a small mini-event going that night with us, Sly B Bro, Rosefaery, Buzzcut, Rainbirds + TBD. TBD is the Rainbirds little blind dog. He goes with them where ever they go. The cache was a itty bitty capsule stuck to the side of a building, you can just barely see it in the picture. We spent about 25 minutes just shooting the breeze after Sly B Bro made the find. Funny how cachers never seem to know the real names of fellow cachers; but, can remember people from their handles!

I had two caches published early this morning and the pictures were taken when we placed them. I found this old hulk in the desert, stuffed a capsule inside the hose and then hooked the hose to another one in the engine compartment. Just gotta make use of whatever you find at the location. My ears were ringing all morning long.....guess it must have been from comments from the ones who found this cache today. They were ready to throw rocks at me. The "Great Guru" made a first to find on both of these; but, he phoned me and said he was about ready to quit on the old car hulk. Two other caches came out during the day, one we had to solve a puzzle.........but we never came up with the right answer. Our caching bud, La84fishn, correctly solved the puzzle so we joined in on the find later in the afternoon. It was under the little rock that was glued to a container. We got our weekly First to Find, number 18, just before we left to meet Frank and Suz for dinner. Becky found it and scoffed up on the $5.00 reward for FTF. Sun was setting as we headed home.

About 2030 another cache came out; however, it's located up in the mountains that might require some ridge driving to get to.........it'll wait until daylight.

Temperature warmed up today, think it made it into the 70s........Brrrr.....that's still kinda chilly!!!!

Only Seven More Shopping...................

days until Christmas!!! Don't forget to send gas money. Things have kinda slowed down the last couple of days. Had to see the arthritis doc yesterday and today to get injections in both knees. Starting a series of 5 injections for each knee and hopefully that'll fix me up for a while. They are helping so that's good news. Monday, after Dr. visit, we went to the casino to collect our Old Folks $10.00 each. Gambled it away and I was about $13.00 ahead but not smart enough to quit so ended up losing a dollar. On the way back over the bridge we saw Frank and Sue's Suzuki in a parking lot where we have two caches planted. Drove in and waited for them to find the caches. After that we went back to the casino so they could collect their $10.00 Old Folks money. Frank ended up winning $51.40 and Suzannah finally quit about $4.00 ahead. Naturally Becky and I played some more and this time I quit $4 ahead and Becky won about $30.00 so we headed for Burgers 'n Beer to have lunch. Frank was the big winner so he sprang for lunch. They just reopened the joint after being closed 3 weeks for remodeling. Food still good; but, the joint lost its atmosphere! Oh well, they can seat more people and that's what it's all about.

Last night about 2245 a new cache popped up on the computer and it was only about 4 blocks away....... we had to get dressed and go looking for it. We got there first, another guy showed up, we couldn't locate it, two more people showed up and one of them spent about 2 minutes there and found the cache! Just then another couple showed up. We shot the breeze for about 25 minutes and then went our separate ways. Fortunately it wasn't very cold last night.

I planted a new cache a couple of days ago and this one made the peoples work for it.........I think they were ready to start throwing rocks at me. Pictures are of me placing the cache. The same guy who found the cache last night also found mine about midnight on Saturday. Don't know if it was dumb luck or what but finding that in the middle of the night is pretty darn good. Last night the cache we were looking for was the same size as mine!

Went out and drove around in the desert today and placed two more caches. Just found out that our reviewer/published was caching on Saturday, had a mishap and he had to be carried down from a mountain side. Don't know exactly what had happened but he was having an operation on his leg this afternoon. Caching isn't for SISSIES..........unless you're like us and stick to the paved roads. Guess my new caches won't be published for awhile.

We're in for the night...........unless something pops up on the computer and that's very unlikely given that the reviewer is in the hospital.

Guess I'll settle in for an evening watching the tube. Temperature, I think, made it to 70 today!! Later W&B

Well We Made It To Saturday..................

and survived our day at Borrego Springs on Friday. We left Yuma at 0700 (the sun isn't even up yet) and headed West to California near the Salton Sea area. Larry (La84fishn), Wayne (beagle39z), Crzoldy and myself found our first cache on the main highway. Gonna be a "piece of cake today" we thought. We then headed into the desert, paved and gravel roads ended and were replaced by sand. We found an old airplane graveyard and guess it's still active and selling parts. Can't figure out who the heck would buy parts that old but guess there's a market somewhere. In the center picture Becky is holding a cache, the map shows it on the corner of two "streets" (??) in a thriving metropolis. We entered Anza Borrego Desert State Park and roads became trails. The map shows us going to Old Kane Road. Larry keeps telling us that we should make pretty good time through this stretch.....of course he hasn't ever been here either. We continued along Kane Road picking up caches here and there. You'd think that there are plenty of rocks out here to hide a cache; but, apparently not enough. Someone made a fake rock and stuffed an ammo can inside of it. Go figure. We spent a lot of time at the San Diego Geocacher sign but never found the cache. We reported a no find and received an email from the owner saying that wind and blowing sand probably covered it up. That was the only one we didn't find today.

Headed to Borrego Springs and we were directed to this two story building that was completely trashed. We poked around a bit and finally came to the conclusion that the cache was located on the second floor. Larry, being the tallest, backed his car up to the building and was finally able to reach the cache. I advised him to just "throw it way back in the corner" for the next guy. He opted to be a nice guy and replaced it where he found it.

Next cache took us up the side of a mountain (hill ??). Here we were supposed to be able to see the rock/mountain formation that ressembled an Old Indian. Everyone else spotted it but for the life of me I couldn't see it. Becky took a bunch of pictures of the mountain and if you can see the Old Indian in the rock formation you're seeing much more that I could.

Left Borrego Springs and headed toward Salton City looking for caches on the way. We had been climbing up and down hills all day long and my old knees where getting petty worn out; but, the end was in sight. Found an old bridge to nowhere and the last caches were located along side some power lines. We initially had a list of 41 caches, we passed on one that required a considerable hike into the desert, didn't find another one and the last one was stashed alongside the highway on the way back to El Centro. Unfortunately we couldn't get it 'cause no one wanted to wiggle through a five strand barb wire fence.

All in all, a pretty good caching day with 38 finds. Our best day ever. I think we put nearly 300 miles on the car so we averaged about 8 miles per cache.

Today, Saturday, we took it easy, found one new cache that had been placed while we were gone, planted a new one that finally got published about 2300 tonight. Just got an email from Larry saying he and 3 others were searching for my new cache for about a hour and it got too cold so he gave it up. Guess he'll try again in the daylight.

Here's a few pictures of our Friday adventure. W&B

Thursday Evening..................

and we're trying to stay warm......don't think the temperature made it above 63 degrees today! Burrrr!! Been slowing down the last couple of days. Tuesday we were still searching for a place to put my final cache in the latest series. Drove out to Ligurta for breakfast, first time we made it there this year. It's been cleaned up a bit (only saw one fly), coffee still 5 cents, with a meal purchase, and gravy about a 7.5......not too shabby actually. We planted the cache about 1/4 miles east of the restaurant so I'll have an excuse to go back and stop at the restaurant when I check on the cache. Tuesday night I was playing on the computer shortly after 2300 when a new cache showed up on the screen. Decisions, decisions....I knew I wouldn't be up early enough for it on Wednesday morning so got dressed and drove east of here about 7 miles. Got the FTF and just as I was starting back to the car some voices and flashlights came over the hill. Surprise, surprise.....The Blood Hound Gang went for the FTF also and I beat them by just a few minutes. Had a nice chat.....you gotta be nuts to be chatting in the desert after midnight....and went home to find "B" still snoozing away. At least I beat JJ to this one and it was worth it.

Wednesday, my cache was published. Received a call from Magimark asking for help. I finally figured out that I had made an error in my coordinates and he was about 1/2 mile from where he should have been. Told him I'd meet him at the restaurant and get him pointed in the right direction. Becky and I drove out and by then "JJ" had arrived on the scene too. Also called La84fishn 'cause I knew he'd be on his way too and gave him some new information. Magimark was supposed to be home "sick", actually he didn't look too spry, but he had figured out the puzzle to my cache and away he went to find it. He and JJ went hunting for the cache.......I tried to make this one as "evil" as I could. They spent about 30 minutes trying to find it and JJ finally did. Becky was taking pictures as they were hunting. Shortly after they found it La84fishn shows up so we all sat and chuckled while he spent about 30 minutes searching. Very entertaining...........you'd have to be addicted to caching and been then to observe the pain we try to inflict on each other. It was good for a lot of chuckles.

This morning we made a speed run to Mexico......I needed some meds that haven't arrived in the mail yet........problem is, this anti-inflamation medicine isn't available in Mexico. Heck, couldn't figure this out, they have about everything else. Stopped at the Commissary on the way home and picked up some goodies. We're driving over to the Salton Sea area tomorrow to go caching with L84fishn and another cacher. We hope to add about 40 new finds to our list.....probably won't but they are all within a reasonable area in the desert. Hopefully, we have some new pictures by day's end tomorrow.

Posting some pictures of the hunt for my new cache, and then Larry and Becky went out to sign in on the cache I had found at midnight. Later, W & B

A Rather Slow Monday..............

today.......sorta played the day "by ear", the only thing we HAD to do was attend Old Folks Day at the casino and collect our "free" ten bucks. We made our way slowly to the casino via the Mall, stopped at Target, Best Buy and Circuit City and spent a couple of bucks. On Mondays the casino adds $10.00 to your club card that you can use to gamble. Becky has been "saving" her's up and anticipated having $30.00 to play with after today. I didn't spend mine last Monday so figured I'd have $20.00 to play with. No so...the casino wipes your slate clean after one week so Becky had $20.00 to play instead of $30.00. I had $20.00 free money so we put it in a machine and had our "free" drinks also. After we played the $40.00 we had $24.00 that we could cash in........and did so! Two of our caches were located nearby so we stopped to check on them and Becky took pictures of one of them. The cache is located inside one of the nuts. It has given some people problems in finding it. The historic "Ocean to Ocean" bridge that crosses the Colorado River at Yuma/California overlooks the park area. We drove up the street where we finished up Christmas Shopping at the local Dollar Store. Great stop.........we managed to finish up shopping for EVERYONE we know and spent less than $20.00 doing so.

Later we stopped by Sue and Frank's since we were kinda close.....we also were looking for a place to put a new cache but still haven't come up with an ideal location yet. Got home about 1530 and I had a messagage from a friend who said his new cache would be published some time that afternoon. At 1553 it showed up on the screen. We knew exactly where it was so off we went trying to be First To Find. We arrived at the cache scene at 1609, took pictures, signed the log, made a trade of some goodies and left before anyone else showed up. We had beaten the Guru!!!

This was a neat cache.........a Santa Claus "Outhouse" with a couple of reindeer on top, you opened the door and there sits Santa making a "deposit". We had seen it in its construction phase but the completed cache was simply outstanding! Sure hope it doesn't get destroyed because a lot of work and thought went into it's construction!

Well, that's about the end of our day. The weather sure has been cold recently, I think it barely made it into the middle, and possibly, or upper 60s. Brrrrrrrrr!

Later, W&B

Friday Night and Saturday Events..............

or whatever you may choose to call them. Friday evening we took in the local Rotary Sausage Fest, our geocaching friend, Jeep'en Jumpers, was helping out in the cooking department so thought we'd give it a try. Bought some raffle tickets but don't know if we won anything or not........if we did they will call us. The sausage had a decent taste but was overdone by the time it got to our plate.....probably continued to cook in heating trays. After the sausage feed we headed downtown to take in the parade that preceding some lighting ceremony. Didn't stay for the entire parade, not very well organized with 2 - 3 hundred yard gaps in between the participants. And it was quite cool so we called it a night and headed for the barn. The next days was the CITO Event, the local geocachers joined in with Bureau of Reclamation and other county personnel and volunteers to help clean up a section of public land. A lot of trash, tires, car parts, etc. were removed. Got to meet other cachers and associate names with faces...........this always happens at events and even with "WORK" involved it still was a pleasant morning. Just before we were ready to leave we were informed that Pizza was being brought in.......so naturally we hung around for our fair share.

After clean up, we went home and cleaned up ourselves and then Frank and Suzannah dropped by. We then went out and did a little searching for geo caches. It gets dark pretty quickly so after finding our last cache we headed for Lutes Casino and dined on burgers and fries.

Am posting some pics of parade, clean-up event and our little stint of caching. Long day......... later, W & B

Wow, Been Slipping On My Posts..................

so better get something out there least I lose a few million readers. Monday morning we scurried around and looked for a FTF. Naturally we don't have instant notification so were behind the Guru. Arriving on the scene all we found were footprints and a tail feather attached to a bush. Another caching friend, La8fishn, has also nicknamed "JJ" "The Hawk" and refers to the fact all he finds is tail feathers when he arrives at the scene after "JJ" has been there. "JJ"s daughter presented him with a bunch of feathers so he kinda adds insult to injury when he arrives first, finds cache and departs without anyone seeing him. Well, the first thing we saw was the feather, footprints and no sign of "JJ". Eventually we found the cache hidden in this stake! Went to the casino to collect our "free old folk" money and then found this nice little park that is under construction. Has some good hiding areas so we placed two caches in it. Had them published by nightfall and sure enough people go looking for them at night. "JJ" found one first; but, he left in such a hurry that he didn't check the computer to see that I had placed another one about .2 of a mile away. Another friend we went to Glamis with was just getting off work, still in work clothes, receives call from her hubbie and off she goes since her work is in the general area. She's in high heels.......the four pic collage is a picture taken of her footprints the next morning and of the cache. Sprinkler system had been running off and on so the ground was soaked. They all found this cache and then realized that there was another one nearby. No one had the coordinates. It was a race to find and Cindy snapped up the cache while all were looking for it. It was her very first FTF. Made her day, and mine, since we snookered "JJ" on one of them. She may have ruined some shoes but it was surely worth it and she reported the ground and water were COLD as she finished the hunt barefoot.

On Wednesday we stopped by briefly to check on Suz and Frank as they finally arrived in Yuma and were getting settled in the park. While there I received a phone call from La84fishn that he had posted a new cache to be published. We went home and hung around the remainder of the day, me with my eye glued to the computer. Cache was never published and about 2300 it finally was published. The reviewer is a bit of a sadist too. We knew "JJ" would be sawing logs as he gets up early, early and since it was only 5 miles away off we go about 2310. Short drive and we looked, looked and looked some more. About ready to give up when Becky spots it. At night you had to have the flashlight aimed just right and then be blessed with some luck.
We signed the log and I left a print out of a yellow feather that I burnt two holes in. Left it attached to the bush. "JJ" found it this morning. We had snookered him on 2 of 3 of the last caches. Happiness reigns in the Yuma caching world......at least temporarily. Becky took some pics of the sky tonight, we're expected another 2-3 days of rain starting tomorrow. Got some injections in knee and shoulder today so with knee feeling pretty good I might just go outside and engage in a few "rain dances".........we're supposed to be picking up trash again for the one cancelled but won't have to if it's raining again. Say a little prayer for rain in Yuma this weekend. Later. W&B

Riding and Geocaching At Glamis Today............

Six of us started with breakfast at Arnies..........gravy about a 2.5....I think maybe the waitress brought me country gravy instead of sausage gravy!! She forgot to bring it, I reminded her and advised her that her gratuity would be reduced as a result. Do you think she brought me the crummy gravy on purpose?? Maybe there are some occasions that I should keep my big mouth shut.

We headed for Glamis, "JJ" and La84fishn in the lead, Magimark and Ibeme66 in their jeep and "B" and I bringing up the rear. We hit the dunes, grabbed a couple of easy caches and then ran into trouble at another one. We tore up the tree, raked all of the sand, goosed the moose, howled at the moon and failed to find the cache. It was a micro cache and with the recent wind and rain it could very easily have been lost forever. We finally gave up.........it's really difficult for JJ to walk away without finding it. I logged a "no find" and JJ wouldn't until the cache owner checks on it to see if it is or isn't there. The guy just refuses to give up!

I had the paddles on the Rhino and was able to get around pretty well and JJ just had some mudders on his. The jeep was having some problems getting around. After our "no find" we continued on and drove right past Oldsmobile Hill, the local competition hill. I looked it over, it was all rutted out at the bottom so couldn't get a very good run at it; but, decided to try and climb it anyway. The first two pics are Oldsmobile Hill looking down from the top. I made it! Probably wouldn't have made it up but Friday rains changed the sand enough for me to make it. We got separated from the rest of the group when we went after some caches that were way to hell and gone and up and over the steepest dunes. We found a couple and then got skunked on a First To Find. We poked and prodded this clump of sand and bushes but couldn't find it. Wind and rain probably covered it up. Someone else had searched for it before we did and they couldn't find it either.

We continued on after getting separated and started finding caches after JJ and Larry had already found them. It got to be easier, we just followed their Rhino tracks when we found them and they led us to the caches. The rest were pretty easy, most were ammo cans to survive the desert, some were in trees and we found another one in a wash. Water was still standing in parts of the wash and the mud was slicker then snot.........I nearly fell into the mucky stuff and Becky did. She was quite a sight after taking a head plant in the mud! We pulled up next to an old tree, I said it's gotta be in the tree, a small one. Turned out it was a cleverly disguised container that looked like a rock. Kinda neat.

Since we hadn't seen anyone for some time I called JJ on the cell phone, we couldn't get reception on the other side of the big dunes, and told them we were heading for the car. They were working their way back also. It was then that we both realized that we had not marked the coordinates of the car! So we just headed East until we found the railway tracks and followed them back to the parking lot. At that time we were about 7 miles from the car. We got there before they did, broke out the sandwich fixens and had some lunch. When they returned we decided it was time to call it a day. We found 15 caches in the dunes and then grabbed three more on the way back to Yuma. Not a bad day for our first dune ride at Glamis!

We'll be back.

Saturday......................

Saturday evening to be more precise and nothing going on....no new caches, no races to be FTF.......rather "oh hum" last couple of days. Today was the big CITO (Cache In Trash Out) event. An area south west of Yuma is in dire need of clean-up.....it's become a dump area and a bunch of organizations were going to get together and try to remove a lot of the eye sore on public land. However, the rains came last night, the winds came last night, the whole area was under flash flood watch. Wind and rain knocked my MTV off line as well as the internet dish. Old M/H was rocking and rolling (from the wind of course) and it continued until wee hours of the morning. The CITO was cancelled yesterday afternoon.......which didn't make me unhappy. So today we moved from one RV lot to another. Finally got most everything set up about 1400, went to the Commissary and then I tried to get the Rhino ready to go to Glamis tomorrow morning. "JJ" and another guy are taking his Rhino, we're taking ours and another couple are going to join us in their Jeep. There's about 30 caches in the Glamis dunes and "JJ" said there's at least 19 that he hasn't looked for so that's our plans for tomorrow. Meet for breakfast about 0830 and then make the 70 or so miles to Glamis. "JJ" was going to haul our Rhino, thought it would fit on his 16 feet flatbed.......two Rhino won't fit. Bummer. Changed the tires to the paddles so believe we're about ready to go.

Found one new cache near the "Peanut Patch" on Friday. I planted a new cache about 1,000 feet away from La84fishn's RV Park, had it published at rush hour on Thursday and "JJ" still beat La84fishn to it! I even tried to call La84fishn to let him know that it was published.......no answer. Larry was shooting pool in his RV rec room......probably the only time he left home without his phone. "JJ" had to detour via back roads to get there because of the traffic situation and still beat him! Took a few pictures the last couple of days so will post them. This is the tree at the Peanut Patch where the cache was hidden, we went in for ice cream and fudge and took a pic of the manager and cashier. The manager of the PP gave permission to place the cache on the property.....then he failed to tell the store owner. Kinda embarassing for a couple of the guys who went looking in the wee hours of the morning. "B" took the guy's pictures after he admitted to his failure to inform the "Boss". Placed our cache on a busy intersection near Larry's RV Park. If the weather is good tomorrow we should have some good pics from the Glamis Sand Dunes. Later. W&B