Buzz Lightyear

My caching has been a little slow over the past month, but I hit it hard today in YYC (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

Wow, what a day. I had a 32 hour layover in downtown YYC. It was very sunny, but cool (as expected for some time to come in this part of the country) High of 37F (3C) very windy, 20 MPH gusting to 30 MPH. I came dressed for it. 9.5 miles of walking throughout and around this beautiful city. 22 Finds, 2 DNFs. Did I mention how nice this city is? Clean, great parks, GREAT walking/biking paths, good views, lots of restaurants, excellent public transportation. When it gets REALLY cold, the entire downtown is connected through a skyway system....similar to Minneapolis, MN. Also it is less then an hours drive from Banff National Park.

I was also very impressed with the high number of traditional sized geocaching containers. I fear that with so much of the grass/trees/brush dying back for the winter that a lot of these caches will be over exposed. But I do like those lock-n-lock containers....they make great caching containers.

I leave early tomorrow morning flying back to IAH, then overnight in DCA (too little time to cache there). Back to IAH Monday morning, IAH-TPA-IAH turn, then commute back to MSP

A week late in logging this caching trip. Took the family on a day-long bike ride on the new trail between the cities of St. Bonifacious and Spring Park, Minnesota. Stopped in Mound, MN to visit with family. There is a wonderful new bike trail between linking all these western Minneapolis suburb cities. The weather was absolute wonderful for a bike ride. Unfortunately the Fall weather will be leaving soon as winter is approaching. I guess I'll have to continue my winter caches in other "warmer" parts of the country.

Short layover in SLC. Hotel near the airport. Woke up, cloudy and rainy. No stopping me, out in the rain for a 5.2 miles walk around the hotel area in search of a few caches. Found 8 this morning. Hopefully next time I will have a longer layover, stay downtown and have some nicer weather for more caching.

Not too far from DCA to BWI, but we did it via IAH. Once again very few caches left in the area that I had not previously found. So, I went out for a nice walk to pick up only this one cache. Time permitting I hope to get out for a bunch of finds in SLC tomorrow.

Unfortunately it has been several weeks away from caching. Well I am back in the pilots seat (literally) While in DCA there were only 2 caches within walking distance. The first was a multi-phase puzzle. Solved phase 1, but phase 2 was more then 9 miles away....couldn't do that by foot today. (just another reason why I don't like multi-caches) The second cache was in a nice water park in Crystal City. Took me longer then it should have to find this one, but maybe because I've been away for two weeks. ;-)