Ok Thorny1, jgooose, Jazzmaster and myself are headed on a cache run to the New Orleans area. We will be doing caches in the French Quarter and some in the famous cemeteries. We will then do a run of 145 caches on a highway next to Lake Pontchartrain. Following that more caches along the route. We hope to get 250 caches this trip.
So what are you doing this Memorial Day weekend? Stop by and get this cache and in your log tell us what your planning or what you did.
When we get back we will look forward to reading your logs!!!!!!
We're back!!!!!!
We had a great time and saw a wonderful cache and did complete the power run.
We got 190 caches!
Nothing wrong with the number as we had a blast of a time. We also got a FTF in New Orleans. Replaced 6 caches and many log sheets.Only had the police talk to us once ( in Alabama) drove 1240 miles and spent to nights in a inexpensive hotel. Jgooose got to drive a WWII1943 Willis Jeep! I got #4000 Jgooose got #3000, Thorny1 broke 4200 and Fred got two new state and built his lead in cache numbers.
There was three things that burned up our clock time:
1) we spent too much time as tourists in the French Quarter but we loved that part. We spent almost 2 hours at one cache! That was View Carre'. GCE02C ! Every minute was worth it! We have a man named Dennis take us to the 33rd floor of an office building to get the cache. Then up to the roof and he walked us around 360 giving the history of what was at our feet. Wonderful time and wonderful guide. Honestly if this was the only cache we got the trip would have been well worth the time and money. On the way home we had BBQ at a place that the Food Network had visited. Great Q and the baked potato salad with sour cream sauce was super.
2) We had driving rain with close lightning! We watched the thermometer in jgooose's truck go from 100 degree down to 74 degrees in 10 minutes. Fred and I put on rain jackets and got a few more but the lightning made us wait. Then on the 2nd day we had torrents of rain again and Fred Steve and I got soaked to the skin. Dave drove so he stayed dry.
3) We should have set a time limit on how long we would search for a cache. We spent 30 minutes a few times trying to find a 1.5 - 1.5 cache.
So Fred summed the trip up:
As products of the 60s and 70’s our influences had acronyms. UNCLE, THRUSH, KAOS, and many military terms that affected our lives. This is the story of a band of brothers that through fate and Geocaching had ironically formed a group of merry men to form C.O.M.B. Many of you are members and agents of this organization and don’t even know it. It’s the highest level, and very “Top Secret”. Anytime you have gotten together with others to do a road trip, or just around your local area, you joined C.O.M.B. It’s being the highest level and most intriguing part of life experiences that will make memories for a lifetime. Watergate – well known term for exposing or bringing to light. C.O.M.B. – Cache On Merry Band. Charter members: Ga Cacher, Jgoose, The Jazzmaster, Thorny1.
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This is placed near where we will depart and it's the place Mike, an 18 wheeler cacher , parks when he stops in town.
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