Christmas Micro Candy and Pink Dino

Welcome to London, the United Kingdom. All Covid PCRs came back negative, as did later follow ups. It’s great to be back to excellent free health care and fantastic public transport. Felt like I’ve been in captivity recently, always needing to ask for a ride. What luck that a FTF opportunity near my house appeared and what luck that jet lag meant I’m up at 4am to get ahead of the FTF hounds. GazRig came for a visit later in the day and we bagged another FTF. Now it’s time for you to have a rest until you are called back into service. 🇬🇧

A trip to Stanford University, California, to check it out for Geocachpro. Biggly impressive! Reminds me of Australia and my university, but that might just be all the huge eucalyptus trees. Amazing how massive they grow when nothing is eating them or burning them. The area just needs some wombats. Instead of worrying about a dorm, Geocachpro could just set his tent up amongst the trees. 🏕

After snowshoeing, you went up the mountain to the Utah Olympic Park, a dedicated training area for Winter sports athletes. The ski jumps look frightening. Checked out the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics Museum. Great to see Steven Bradbury and Alisa Campion mentioned. They won Australia’s first ever Winter Olympic gold medals as those games. Both are legends but it’s worth googling Steven Bradbury to see his win. Awesome. 🥇

Time for some outdoor gear shopping. Stopped in at this cache on the way to REI in Salt Lake City. 🥾

Happy New Year! Blue skies and no new snow today. Exhausted by all our powder skiing and New Year festivities, we headed away from Park City to see some more of the surrounding area. Very chilly today. Loving the red rock canyons mostly covered in snow. Some great mountains in this area which was once Mexican territory. The things you learn geocaching…. 🎇