The final is near

Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013

After 5 long days and about 2500 cach finds and many many Km's on the road and many Km's of hiking we had arrived back in Vegas. It was an experience that we will all remember for ever. We visited many hotels, resturants and out of the way places. We encounter rain, snow, sun shine and heavy winds while driving and hiking. Our days were long and we went until exhaustion set in yet we laughed all the time. In the resturants we laughed so hard and long.
What a great group of people to spend 6 days cching with in this wondeerful place. We also bumped into a few cachers but not too many. Always nice to see other cachers while on the road.
This brought us to day 5 and after cleaning out the vans at a car wash that evening and a quick supper it was off to bed as we had to get up at 0345 hours for a 0400 hours start to California to start the Route 66. Three members of the team opted out so they could take in the sights of Vegas. So Postie Bear, Just Leafy and Shadowcaster enjoyed the day in Vegas.
The rest of the team all met, Paulboy, Cougar Kid, bigbluemarble, crkayker, JuRuu and seekandsail headed of to Califorina and arrived two hours later at the Bagdad Cafe. What can I say about this place, WOW,a whole different place but certainly fun and the food was great. A whole different place that goes way back in time. Really enjoyed all the old trivia and the people.
So we started out doing the Route 66 about 0740 hours and off went. We managed to find all the caches and only had one minor problem. JurRu turned over a rock to find a small radle snake coiled around the cache container. We took some pictures before helping it on it's way as we had caching to do. This part of the trip was so great with so many old businesses just left there to tor away. I suppose at some time they were all thriving businesses. The day was really sunny so it made it a pleasent day. We did encounter a snow storm on the pass out of Las Vegas towars California but it did not last long.
We completed the Route 66 at about 1700 hours and then drove to Arazona to grab 2 caches there before having supper at a local place near the border. It was a little bar and cafe in Oatman, CA and the food was great. We laughed so loud they thought we were all crazy Canadian, and we were..LOL
After eating we decide to head back to Vegas via Highhway 95 to Kingman then on to Highway 93 which took two hours. A nice pleasant drive back to Vegas arriving at in Vegas at 2100 hours. A very long had day but so wonderful to enjoy it with great company.
We managed to grab about 850 cache finds today. Our biggest day to date. In total we have found over 3300 caches in 6 days. The final numbers are yet to be dertermined..
This trip is the highlight of my Geocaching adventures and had a wonderful time with friends for Campbell River to Victoria and those that live in between.
Bigbluemarble, Postie Bear and crkayker are in the air and myself, JuRuu and Cougar Kid are at the airport leaving and Skadowcaster, Just Leafy and seekandsail leave later today. As we part, I thank all the team for such a great week and help in making my dream come true.

Geocaching My Way of Life...Paulboy