CACHE EXTRAVEGANZA - Part 2

On our second day of our camping trip/Geocaching Marathon we started the day with a healthy breakfast and a quick swing in our hammock. After last nights awesome sunset and successful finds we were ready for more! The pinnacle of this cache-o-rama was the Whale Rock!I will paste my log for this find, as I feel it says it best! When you find a cache you log your find with any interesting tidbits and photos at www.geocaching.com where you can read other people adventures too!

BOOYEAH!!! This was the coup de gras for our cache-tastic weekend! We gathered the tide data and timed our hunt accordingly. After a BEAUTIFUL stroll across the beach we approached our quarry. The water was a bit nippy, but with perfect timing we waded across the river and assessed the situation. Muggles abounded on this marvelous day, but we forged ahead. Up, up, up we went until we were on top of the world, surveying the muggle peasantry below us, ignorant of the geocaching glory that was about to occur. You'd think after such a rigorous climb, the placer of this cache would show mercy with an easy hide. After breaking into the completely useless clue, we considered our options, and failure was not one of them. On the brink of madness, my mind fraught with anguish, and some concern my wife had fallen off when I couldn't see her searching below the lip of the rock, I spied it! Flush with success I leapt into the air with joy, shouting with glee and capering like a slightly drunken fellow. After high fives and whoops all around, the wife and I signed the log, and made our decent to the lower planes of existence, glowing with geocaching success. This is our new favorite!!

CACHE EXTRAVAGANZA - Part 1

My wife and I took a camping trip up this weekend, this time to MacKerricher State Park north of Fort Bragg. This was probably our last trip for the season, but if it stays 100 degrees much longer here in Sacto, it might not be! We also planned a totally awesome geocaching spree, with over 20 caches to locate!The picture above is one of the numerous bridges on the coast route of California, spanning a dramatic gulch, this one called Russian Gulch. We started our caching day at the points furthest south and worked our way up the coast. Here at Russian gulch we nailed two caches, one of which gave us great views of the wack-job abalone divers out in the kelp forest. See below.This particular cache is classified as a "micro", which usually means a film case, altoids can or something like that. They'll be stuck with magnets to guardrails, hung in trees with hooks or stuffed into nooks and crannies. These things are seriously ALL OVER THE PLACE. With my able co-cacher (pictured below) we started off the day with two easy finds and caught glorious views of the coast on this perfect early fall day!
Our next mission was to Point Cabrillo Lighthouse. We picked up a travel bug while home in Maine that we needed to deposit at a cache here. Travel bugs are these little tags attached to some random object that either have a specific mission (ie. travel to different lighthouses) or are just randomly traveling around the globe. This travel bug in particular was called the Pemaquid Point TB, after a lighthouse on the Maine coast. We snapped a picture of it with Point Cabrillo and deposited it for the next lucky cacher!

In the next post we'll get to the caching coup de gras, WHALE ROCK!!!!! This cache required, skillz, mad skillz. These last few shots are at the campground. They have a whale skeleton there, and of course Sarah just HAD to ham it up.
Finally, a few sunset pictures... these were taken at the seal watching station at the camp ground. We wandered down there for a couple of cache's just at the right time to catch the sun going down and to laugh as the poor seals got washed off the rocks. There are a FEW things about California I will miss, the north coast is one of them!

Sarah Palin : Bikini Godess

Okay, okay... enough already. Yes, she's not very bright, worldly, compassionate, or truthful. At least she looks good with some white trash chicks body pasted to her head.

To say Sarah Palin would be horrible for America is like saying the center of the sun is hot. Maybe she is not evil, maybe I am just a horrible person who thinks the Bush Doctrine (which I could explain in an interview if asked...) is an incredibly self-centered, short sighted, infantile view of the way the world works. Maybe it is me who is wrong for thinking that a rational approach to government management of our free market society would probably be a good discussion to have. She can see Russia from her house, which makes her a foreign policy expert. So far as I know she poops too, which makes her an authority on waste water treatment. I've had a piece of moose meat in the freezer longer than this right wing bible thumping weirdo has had her passport. Seriously.
Some of my coworkers complained that she was picked on by "Charlie" during his interview with her by asking her "hard questions". I haven't had a chance yet to ask them if Katie Couric (a real hard hitting news reporter if ever there was one) was picking on her when she asked Palin to list examples of McCain's ability to manage a serious economic concerns. Sarah Palin's astounding ability to sound like the dumbest person on earth has probably nothing to do with why we haven't seen her give any other interviews lately. McCain MUST be scratching his head at this point, wondering if the real definition of hockey mom is some crazy bitch who got hit in the head with a puck...