10:45PM Wednesday February 3, 2010 (Preparing for Bug Hunt)
What is a single guy supposed to do on a Wednesday night? NIGHTTIME BUG HUNTING OF COURSE!!!
So once I got everything ready to go, yes I am still doing paper caches, my best friend gave me a serious guilt trip. Something like this...
"You suck Joe," says Demaster, "why do you always take off on the one night I don't have to work?"
"Well excuse me," I said, "I didn't know I was responsible for keeping you company."
"I guess I could do these caches first thing in the morning instead" I responded.
After waiting for him to finish his level on the computer game, we pulled up Hulu onto the projection screen. We decided to go old school and relive our teenage years by watching "21 Jump Street." Well, needless to say, he was asleep in 20 minutes, and I got to watch 3 episodes all by myself.
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10:45AM Thursday February 4, 2010 (Leaving for Bug Hunt)
Well so much for the "first thing in the morning" idea. But knowing that I had the whole day available I decided to add Menlo Park - San Mateo to the hunting grounds. I was finally ready to go at 11:30am. I had 16 cache sheets in hand and I was ready to hit the road. I would cross the Dumbarton, head North along the 101 corridor, cut across 92 to Hayward and Castro Valley, then South on 880 to Union City. What a better way to spend my day off.
I ended up headed towards Hayward around 4PM and I was tired of caching alone. So I called my brother WRITE SHOP ROBERT, and he decided to join me for the rest of the day. We met a Jack In The Box on Winton, where we had the unusual experience of placing our orders with a kiosk instead of a person. After that we hit the road and stayed out until the rains starting coming down real hard.
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10:45PM Thursday February 4, 2010 (Done with Bug Hunt).....
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NOW FOR THE DETAILS:
Many years ago my brother and I took a trip to Tennessee, on the way we stopped at a cache hidden right in front of the local police department. At the time I wondered...do they really know this is here, or did the CO just say that. Well there would be NO doubt with this cache, GZ had me searching directly in front of a big glass window where the officers inside could watch me wandering aimlessly around while I searched. I found the cache pretty quickly and removed it to a nearby sitting area. WOW, what a cache! There are lots of goodies for kids to enjoy. I took quite a few sig. items for my brother to add to his collection and a policemans badge (sticker) for Minic at home. I decided to leave two AA batteries, and a nice GW...hidden of course. I also picked up two bugs that were just itching to get away from the popo! Before I left I put on one of my CITO gloves and picked up a whole bag of trash from the bushes in front of the station.
When I left there were no other bugs in the cache. Maybe the cache owner can mark them as missing.
Todays Stats:
Stop Number: 8/14
Cache Number: 5/11
DNF Number: 0/2
TB Caught: 5/12 TB27JAX http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=c49ea26d-2326-43b0-a85b-27bb149dd064
6/12 TB2B0NG http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=97e67ba2-3d08-4954-8652-2eabd6ac945e
TB Released: 0/1
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[This entry was edited by joespaz on Sunday, February 07, 2010 at 2:08:18 AM.]