Bamboo the Panda Travel Tag

Well this is incredibly exciting! For the third day in a row (and the third day after being back in Asia), we managed to be the first to find a newly published cache! We took a rest day yesterday to catch up on sleep and finally unpack, but only to pack again for a short 4 day trip around the southern peninsula. We don’t have any grandiose plans, though we wanted to see a bit of the country before returning to work. And today we drove down further than we’ve been, heading to Malacca for two nights, and along the way stopped at this stash, which we were first to find, again! Awesome!

It’s that just the dopest? We arrived back to KL today, after a long long trip across the world, and after a brief nap and getting some unpacking done, we headed into town to meet up with our ex-colleagues and friends, so that we could meet their new daughter and reconnect after half a year of not seeing them since Myanmar. After saying goodbye, I checked the map and along the way home saw that we could very conveniently stop by this new stash, which was recently published. At GZ, Laura managed to find the tiny nano container quickly, and we could put our nickname first into the logbook. 

That’s a sweet ‘welcome home present’!

Landing once again at KLIA, we’re happy for the warm return to Asia where we’ll be roughly for the next 7 and a half months. Don’t worry, we’ll drop you off at a suitable cache sooner than that!

While this was a red-eye flight, I couldn’t get many nice photos of this TB along the way. But I’m including a photo from the journey, so that this TB’s gallery can continue to grow! Now let’s head home to get some rest!

Walking around, we had a nice winter walk, and our attention next set on this fourth out of five stashes visited today; we were ready to conclude our walk but I had just finished solving this easy stash while we were here and thought it would be a shame not to pick up the container itself. As such, Laura and the fam headed towards the car, and I ran towards GZ. I spotted the stash quickly, but had to wait a little while for muggles to pass by from the area (during which time I went to note down the answer to the adventure lab nearby). . This was a very straightforward and easy stash to solve; the logbook and container and prefab are all in fantastic condition, and the pencil in the stash is present. The hide itself was easy to take down and get back up. Exciting that this TB Was with us!

After our appointment concluded, we and the parental units stopped by for lunch in the city, which was just delightful. Such a nice sendoff! And with limited time left, we went for a very short walk as a final goodbye, as well as to pick up a few stashes. As we had another meetup with a friend in Prague at 5, we realized that we were running late and quickly hopped on the highway. Originally we wanted to stop at home first, but we had to go straight to Holesovice. I managed to trim 15 minutes off our ETA, and as such we arrived a little bit earlier to our Big Smokers dinner date. Laura was happy for the nap in the car, meanwhile I needed to stretch my legs. Seeing that we had a few minutes to spare, I decided to walk around the corner to this stash, which I was able to find relatively early, but then the problem occurred. Just before reaching down for the stash, a lady parked her car a foot away from me. And in this awkward position, I thought I would wait her out, but unfortunately the woman was there to stay, waited for a friend to come down and they started chatting. Oh lord, why this timing, why this location? It was so very awkward, but a few minutes of waiting and moving around, I managed to eventually get the stash, quickly ink in our nick, and quickly return it. While doing this, I was surprised at the good condition of the logbook considering that it is not directly sheltered from the elements. After adding our nick to the logbook, I snapped a photo and drafted this log, which made this our 8311th overall find, and today’s final of five visited caches. I then headed back to the venue, where it was perfect timing and I just met up with our friend as she approached. We had a nice evening, spending our last few hours in town, before the big packing day.