I haven't blogged in a long time but am hoping to get busy on this site with lots of pictures of all the places we explore while out on day trips, weekend trips and vacations. We travel around on our motorcycle, in our jeep and with the motor home. We also love trains, airplanes and... Continue Reading →
Growing family
Our family is growing as we have added a dog to our mix. We started looking about a year ago and after meeting several that just didn't work for one reason or another we were asked to consider fostering by the rescue we had been working with. We both knew we would be horrible at... Continue Reading →
First 2018 Day Trip
Last weekend we headed out to the woods, just a day to escape and get dirty… no cell service and lots of puddles.. even some snow. Turned out to be a great reminder for us to be prepared. We had moved the “box” into the new truck and didn’t have anything extra in the jeep... Continue Reading →
Weekend Rides on the New Bike
This weekend we had amazing weather, in fact the weather has been pretty great for awhile now. Winter is coming .... the leaves are changing colors and falling onto the road and the spiders webs are glistening in the morning dew. Perfect weather for getting out there and riding. Lucky for us we have a... Continue Reading →
Washington State Parks Centennial GeoTour
Washington State parks is 100 years old and Washington State Geo Caching is helping to celebrate. There are 186 State parks in Washington (Here is a list of them) and now there are a 100 new geo caches hidden in 100 of these parks. So backing up a little bit... in case you do not... Continue Reading →
South West Washington Caching ~ Trip 1
Last weekend we learned about the geocaching tour to celebrate 100 years of state parks and decided we were going to do this.. The first 30 people to get all 100 caches will get a gold coin... we want one of those so are starting right away. We already had plans to visit Portland for... Continue Reading →
North East Caching ~ Trip 2
Our second trip out for the Washington state park caches headed us to the north east corner Lincoln Rock Had a late start on Friday, made it here just in time to set up the tent and then do some csi caching (in the dark with our flash lights) was able to grab this one... Continue Reading →
North West ~ Day Caching in Washington ~Trip 3
Grabbed a couple of the state park caches this weekend that were a bit closer to home and did not involve over nights Larrabee .. Mountains to Sea more local trails to explore... did not know these were here until this cache Bay View this was a quick park and grab, would not want to... Continue Reading →
South East Caching in Washington ~ Trip 4
Back over the mountains to hit the south east corner of the state.. starting with a couple on highway 90 Olallie nice little park that runs right along I-90 .. lots of water falls and old growth... can't wait to go back and explore some more. Iron Horse - Hyak love this cache and can't... Continue Reading →
Evening Caching ~ Trip 5
These caches were pretty close to home so we took two nights after work and ran after these.. thankfully it was summer with lots of day light as we managed to push the clock on these (as we did on all the caching adventures this summer) First we headed over to Whidbey Island to grab... Continue Reading →
Along the Coast Caching ~ Trip 6
We need to grab a couple caches that are inland and near family so we headed out Friday to grab a couple and spend the night with my parents. 7-19-13 to 7-21-13 SaltWater State Park This was a quick grab and allowed us some time to visit the mother in law before heading to... Continue Reading →
Center of the State ~ Trip 7
In our trips over the mountains we managed to run out of time and miss a few caches.. we did manage to arrange them so that we could head back over and easily (and not so easily) grab them in one weekend. 7-26-13 to 7-28-13 Got our swag ready to leave in the caches... Continue Reading →
Saturday Caching ~ Trip 8
This one gets its own post. We had a bike ride this morning with the Harley group .. rode from Skagit to the Canadain border.. with some friends, had lunch and rode back to Skagit. Brought the bike home and traded leathers for hiking boots I like this picture... we are in USA and the... Continue Reading →
Sunday Caching ~ Trip 9
Up early and out the door.... we have about 7 caches we want to grab today and maybe a visit with my sister in there. Squak Mountain Great trails in here.. was a fun cache to grab. Wish we had printed out the trail map or at least had a good look at it before... Continue Reading →
Caching After Work ~ Trip 10
Forks in the Sky This is in Index and to be honest last time I was up in this area it was a little scary. They have really been working on cleaning this town up in the last few years. We parked and headed out on the trail... you cross some train tracks... and... Continue Reading →
Caching Excuse to Visit Sequim ~ Trip 11
Last trip though Sequim we did not have time for the cache that involved a 4 miles hike.. so we scheduled a trip back and made reservations to stay at our favorite bed and breakfast The Red Caboose Getaway We stay here several times a year.. every time we find any excuse to need to... Continue Reading →
Last Trip ~ 12
Hoping to get to 100 today, though when we are getting ready to head out the door we notice that one cache that has had nothing but issues and has been disabled the last 3 times we tried to go this way... is once again disabled 😦 We will see what happens. Dash Point quick easy... Continue Reading →
100th Cache in the Challenge ~ Trip 13
Home at midnight last night and alarm set for 3:30 am We have 99 caches and need that last one. Last we heard there were only 7 coins left and you know we are not going to let this go until we have a gold coin in hand. Alarm went off way too early.. roll... Continue Reading →