This is day 5 of of 8 and we have now found a total of 995 caches. Today was all city drive ups and a few small drive up side roads Our total today was 95 caches. The temp was at 40 C at one point so lots of water again today. Some of the caches today were a bit tricky but managed to find most of them. After 5 day in Medicine Hat, most of which was great, it is time to move on to Lethbridge early in the morning caching along the way and going to Montana to grab a hundred caches or so.
We had a great supper tonight and now to clean up, pack and get ready for another great day. I am sure I will have a lot more to write tomorrow as we wiil be in so many different places.
My cache finds are now at 19,839, only 161 from 20,000. I suppose it will be Friday before I get to that number..More to come tomorrow..Geocaching My Way of Life Paulboy
Wednesday 31 August 2016
Tuesday 30 August 2016
Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Adventure Day 4
Day four proved to a little differnt than the last three for sure. It all started out great as we finished the last 50 of the Search series in about an hour and then on to complete the Bear Series. It was just after noon when we finished the 150 on that series so we moved to a different area to do the Heart and maple Leaf Series. We stopped at Heart# 30, found the cache and stopped for lunch.
We had been warned about a silver truck and the driver was following cachers around and not happy about any one being on the roads, legal driving roads. Here is my log from the cache.
LOG-( We started off a little late today and off we went to finish off the Search series, last 50, then we went to complete the Bear head series and completed that just after noon. It was rather a nice day and we looked forward to another great day. We drove to start the Maple leaf and Heart series and were parked at https://coord.info/GC5WR5V, when a lady in a silver Dodge stopped and asked if we were picking those things, I said yes. She drove off and then returned 10 minutes later as we had not moved. We were enjoying lunch, she got out of her truck and had a cache in hand screaming and yelling things I can not post here, threatened bodily harm, said she called the police, when we said we would wait for them she went nuts on us, up in our face and after 5 minutes of yelling, screaming and would not listen to reason. She went to her truck yelling we were on private property and roads and she was going to get a few more pissed off farmers and bring them back. Her face was so red and she was vibrating, we thought she was going to stroke out. At this point we made a decision to move on and lose those 150 caches, now that pisses me off. Please be careful if you are caching that way, you may get run off the road or worst. Did I mention that we will cause fires and take food from her family. There are homes for people like that.
We then did a bunch of caches on the main road and in town bit.
All the caches we found were in good shape. The caches in town were great to find and thank you all for the great caches. We have one more day here and plan to make the best of it, I am a bigger person that one phys-co bitch muggle. Thanks for all the caches and the work it takes to place and maintain them.
Over all we got 177 caches today and maybe a few more tonight.
Geocaching My Way of Geocaching, Paulboy)
So off we went for fear of a gang of pissed off cowboys and a pissed off DB. We cached in town until supper time and did our logs for the day.
At the event last night we got asked if we would like to have a shot at doing a sort of night cache and I would never pass up a chance for a good cache. This cache is called Hand Trap" https://coord.info/GC3TBR5" Look this one up and watch the video. We both found it and it was the best cache I have found to date. The CO and BurgessDidz set it all for us. This was so much fun and being on a time limit is like a pressure cooker. Such a great job, great craftsmenship and attention to detail, flashing lights, music. What a great group of cachers we met last night. Well worth the trip here. I am now at 19,750 cache finds. Thanks for reading and more tomorrow of our last day here.
Geocaching My way of Life Paulboy
We had been warned about a silver truck and the driver was following cachers around and not happy about any one being on the roads, legal driving roads. Here is my log from the cache.
LOG-( We started off a little late today and off we went to finish off the Search series, last 50, then we went to complete the Bear head series and completed that just after noon. It was rather a nice day and we looked forward to another great day. We drove to start the Maple leaf and Heart series and were parked at https://coord.info/GC5WR5V, when a lady in a silver Dodge stopped and asked if we were picking those things, I said yes. She drove off and then returned 10 minutes later as we had not moved. We were enjoying lunch, she got out of her truck and had a cache in hand screaming and yelling things I can not post here, threatened bodily harm, said she called the police, when we said we would wait for them she went nuts on us, up in our face and after 5 minutes of yelling, screaming and would not listen to reason. She went to her truck yelling we were on private property and roads and she was going to get a few more pissed off farmers and bring them back. Her face was so red and she was vibrating, we thought she was going to stroke out. At this point we made a decision to move on and lose those 150 caches, now that pisses me off. Please be careful if you are caching that way, you may get run off the road or worst. Did I mention that we will cause fires and take food from her family. There are homes for people like that.
We then did a bunch of caches on the main road and in town bit.
All the caches we found were in good shape. The caches in town were great to find and thank you all for the great caches. We have one more day here and plan to make the best of it, I am a bigger person that one phys-co bitch muggle. Thanks for all the caches and the work it takes to place and maintain them.
Over all we got 177 caches today and maybe a few more tonight.
Geocaching My Way of Geocaching, Paulboy)
So off we went for fear of a gang of pissed off cowboys and a pissed off DB. We cached in town until supper time and did our logs for the day.
At the event last night we got asked if we would like to have a shot at doing a sort of night cache and I would never pass up a chance for a good cache. This cache is called Hand Trap" https://coord.info/GC3TBR5" Look this one up and watch the video. We both found it and it was the best cache I have found to date. The CO and BurgessDidz set it all for us. This was so much fun and being on a time limit is like a pressure cooker. Such a great job, great craftsmenship and attention to detail, flashing lights, music. What a great group of cachers we met last night. Well worth the trip here. I am now at 19,750 cache finds. Thanks for reading and more tomorrow of our last day here.
Geocaching My way of Life Paulboy
Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Adventure Day 3
This morning was slightly different in that we did not hit the road until closer to 0730 and got our first cache at 0750 hours. Our goal was to complete the Jigsaw Power Trail of 253 caches. The weather was great and it promised to get to 28+ degrees.
It was Cougar kid's birthday today and he keeps telling me he is still young!
As were having breakfast, an older couple ( well they looked older) came into the small eating area and with the usual chit chat that travelers do at motels, began flowing. Then the question two men travelling what to here ":How long have you two been MARRIED". I guess because of Cougar Kid's moustache and my stud like body, I suppose I could see that. After setting them straight, we finished our breaky and hit the road for a day of gay caching.
The roads were long and dusty and the temp was rising. As Cougar Kid drove, I would jump out and run through the ditch to the fence line or post and grab the cache. A lot of the caches were pill bottles that were broken, wet logs and needed maintenance. There was a bit more traffic today but still fairly quite. At least most of the caches were on my side today.
Three deer ran in front of us on the road for a while and then jumped the fence and dissappeared in the rolling feilds. Not long after that, I got out of the car to get the next cache when I realized that the three calfs were not in the fenced fields and had got loose. You guessed it, they were standing at the cache but one hello and off they went down the fence line.
We finished the series by 1400 hours and moved along to the Search Power Trail and did 50 of those caches by 1600 hours. During the caching day we also pcked up a few other type caches along the way. The temp reach 30 at parts of the day, it was so hot on these flat lands. I must admit, we did see a tree!
Now we drove back to the hotel to clean up and get our GPS ready for Day 4 and headed out for our event, "Cougar Kid's Birthday Event".
It was a new Boston Pizza in town. Eight cachers showed up, T.D.M.22, DSK11, Slapshot, Navy People, BurgressKidz and BoBear. It was great to meet everyone and wish Cougar Kid a happy birthday and got some inside info of the area and several of the cache CO's were there. We are going to do a night cache tomorrow that we found out about.
Out total finds for the day was 316 cache finds. It is time to hit the sach to rest my legs and get some much needed sleep.
This adventure is a great one and more caching will continue. Day three is now at a close and in the morning the start of Day 4 is sure to be another adventure. My number of cache finds are now at 19,572and our total finds for the first three days is 637. More tomorrow and happy dreams.
It was Cougar kid's birthday today and he keeps telling me he is still young!
As were having breakfast, an older couple ( well they looked older) came into the small eating area and with the usual chit chat that travelers do at motels, began flowing. Then the question two men travelling what to here ":How long have you two been MARRIED". I guess because of Cougar Kid's moustache and my stud like body, I suppose I could see that. After setting them straight, we finished our breaky and hit the road for a day of gay caching.
The roads were long and dusty and the temp was rising. As Cougar Kid drove, I would jump out and run through the ditch to the fence line or post and grab the cache. A lot of the caches were pill bottles that were broken, wet logs and needed maintenance. There was a bit more traffic today but still fairly quite. At least most of the caches were on my side today.
Three deer ran in front of us on the road for a while and then jumped the fence and dissappeared in the rolling feilds. Not long after that, I got out of the car to get the next cache when I realized that the three calfs were not in the fenced fields and had got loose. You guessed it, they were standing at the cache but one hello and off they went down the fence line.
We finished the series by 1400 hours and moved along to the Search Power Trail and did 50 of those caches by 1600 hours. During the caching day we also pcked up a few other type caches along the way. The temp reach 30 at parts of the day, it was so hot on these flat lands. I must admit, we did see a tree!
Now we drove back to the hotel to clean up and get our GPS ready for Day 4 and headed out for our event, "Cougar Kid's Birthday Event".
It was a new Boston Pizza in town. Eight cachers showed up, T.D.M.22, DSK11, Slapshot, Navy People, BurgressKidz and BoBear. It was great to meet everyone and wish Cougar Kid a happy birthday and got some inside info of the area and several of the cache CO's were there. We are going to do a night cache tomorrow that we found out about.
Out total finds for the day was 316 cache finds. It is time to hit the sach to rest my legs and get some much needed sleep.
This adventure is a great one and more caching will continue. Day three is now at a close and in the morning the start of Day 4 is sure to be another adventure. My number of cache finds are now at 19,572and our total finds for the first three days is 637. More tomorrow and happy dreams.
Sunday 28 August 2016
Paulboy & Cougar kid's Adventure Day 2
Another day on the range, well a great day on the range, after our 0600 hours breaky at the Motel, gassed up got some ice and goodie and we were off to start our first power trail.
As we have no cooler, I did bring a few garabage bags and we got a box, lined it with the garbage bags and instance cooler for water and Cougar Kids frozen apple.
We drove to our first cache and found our first one @ 0650 hours, Cougar Kid is drive but not wake yet. We could see rain in the distance but we were saved! We managed to find our first 100 caches in two hours and 45 minutes. I am doing all the running, half of them on my side of the road and the rest on the other side of the road. At least there are no hills but did get lost a few times the tall grass. That is a lot of fence post to run to and back. The roads are all gravel but the best I have ever seen, not to much dust. We encountered no wild live, except cows for some reason, What is up with all the cows around here? We only saw two trucks all day and no people. Then there was the BUGS, a few times they had carried Cougar Kid out of the car and were fighting with them. The inside of the car is all red from dead bugs we had to kill.
We had a quick break for lunch and back on the raod for another power trail before going to supper at 1830 hours then a few local town caches around the motel before setting in for the night. After logging in all the caches, it looks like we found 267 caches in total with 3 DNFs. What a great day. I have now reached my 19,000 cache find and my total today is 19,256 cache finds.
It is time to clean up and hit the sac, big day tomorrow, it is Cougar Kid's birthday and we have an event at 1930 hours and we will be doing a another power trail that has 265 caches. We hope to break the 300 mark tomorrow but time will tell.
My last thing to do before bed is tuck Cougar Kid in and read him a bed time story to help him sleep. More to come tomorrow. Paulboy
As we have no cooler, I did bring a few garabage bags and we got a box, lined it with the garbage bags and instance cooler for water and Cougar Kids frozen apple.
We drove to our first cache and found our first one @ 0650 hours, Cougar Kid is drive but not wake yet. We could see rain in the distance but we were saved! We managed to find our first 100 caches in two hours and 45 minutes. I am doing all the running, half of them on my side of the road and the rest on the other side of the road. At least there are no hills but did get lost a few times the tall grass. That is a lot of fence post to run to and back. The roads are all gravel but the best I have ever seen, not to much dust. We encountered no wild live, except cows for some reason, What is up with all the cows around here? We only saw two trucks all day and no people. Then there was the BUGS, a few times they had carried Cougar Kid out of the car and were fighting with them. The inside of the car is all red from dead bugs we had to kill.
We had a quick break for lunch and back on the raod for another power trail before going to supper at 1830 hours then a few local town caches around the motel before setting in for the night. After logging in all the caches, it looks like we found 267 caches in total with 3 DNFs. What a great day. I have now reached my 19,000 cache find and my total today is 19,256 cache finds.
It is time to clean up and hit the sac, big day tomorrow, it is Cougar Kid's birthday and we have an event at 1930 hours and we will be doing a another power trail that has 265 caches. We hope to break the 300 mark tomorrow but time will tell.
My last thing to do before bed is tuck Cougar Kid in and read him a bed time story to help him sleep. More to come tomorrow. Paulboy
Saturday 27 August 2016
Paulboy & Cougar Kid's Adventure- Day 1
We got up pretty early and our wives drove us to the aiport in Nanaimo to catch the 0600 flight to Calgary, great flight and picked up the car ( Volvo XC60 SUV) , now this is a car. WOW. By the time we got everyting settled, stopped at Timmie's, it was 1002 hours before we got our first cache. The weather was great, not too sunny but warm. We cached along HWY 1 towards Medicine Hat until about 1800 hours. None of the caches stood out too much except for one and a lot of them were in need of maintence. The terran was very dry and it was easy to pick up the caches along the fence line. The drive was great and as most of you know flat. We managed to do the Geo Art 31 for the 31 days of August, it did not take long on these great country dirt roads.
We are now settled in for the night after supper at Joey's Only, love those fish taco's. We have logged in all our caches for today and getting ready to settle down for the night, big day tomorrow. We will start at 0600 hours and have a little catching up to do now, We are now short 144 caches to complete our 200+ a day. More to come tomorrow night, look forward to any and all comments. Paulboy
Thursday 25 August 2016
It has been a long time since I have done an entry. The geocaching has progressed to levels I never dreamed of. I have been to so many places and caches since March of 2014. Princess! and I went to New Brunswick, Quebec, Prince edward Island and on the way to Moncton, New Brunswick, drove about 40 KM's of our way to the New Brunswick/Nova Scotia border to grab one cache.
On the Island, I have coverd many areas in search of the elusive caches. We have been doing some great hikes, 4 X 4, boat and mountain bikes. I have also traved to Washington and Oregon to find the first plaque cache. I have been to the Vancouver and area to do a lot of the dyke caches on mountain bikes, such a beautiful area and way to cache.
This fall and winter I have plans to do a lot of the Sooke hills and area. I suppose this depends on how much snow there is. In November, Princess! and I are going to my childhood home in Campbellton, New Brunswick to visit my Mom. My Dad passed three and a half months ago at almost 94 years, so time with Mom is even more important now. After a week with Mom in Campbellton, New Brunswick, we are off to Halifax, Nova Scotia for a week. I Joined the Navy in 1969 and was posted to Halifax after basic training and was on the HMCS Terra Nova. I was then transfered to Esquiltmalt on the HMCS Terra Nova in 1971 and remained out here till now. I t will be nice to see this city again but this time, geocaching is on the agenda.
My intention is to start up this blog once every two to three weeks going forward and after each big adventure or during the adventure.
My Geocaching finds are at 18,926 and my goal for the year has been to reach 20,000 finds.
On August 27/16, I have organized a fild trip for Cougar Kid and I. At 0600 hours we fly out of Nanaimo Airport for Calgary, renting a car and caching to Medicine Hat, remaining there for 5 days caching all the Geo Art that has built up in this area. On the 6th day we will cache our way to Lethbridge for two days to cache some trails there as well as going to Montana if we can cross over with the rental car for a few trails in two small towns there. On the 8th day we will head back to Calgary, again caching along the way and then do the Flames Geo art and more if time permits.
I am having an event on August 28 to celebrate Couga Kid,s birthday. https://coord.info/GC6MF52
and one in Lethbridge on September 02, https://coord.info/GC6P1W6.
If anyone wishes to leave a birthday wish for Cougar Kid (AKA Bob), add a coment before the date and I will pass on your comments at the event.
This should be a great Geocaching Adventure for both of us, a much needed rest and our intention is to try and get about 200 caches a day.
I will blog each night about our days adventure and look forward to your comments.
Geocaching My way of Life Paulboy
On the Island, I have coverd many areas in search of the elusive caches. We have been doing some great hikes, 4 X 4, boat and mountain bikes. I have also traved to Washington and Oregon to find the first plaque cache. I have been to the Vancouver and area to do a lot of the dyke caches on mountain bikes, such a beautiful area and way to cache.
This fall and winter I have plans to do a lot of the Sooke hills and area. I suppose this depends on how much snow there is. In November, Princess! and I are going to my childhood home in Campbellton, New Brunswick to visit my Mom. My Dad passed three and a half months ago at almost 94 years, so time with Mom is even more important now. After a week with Mom in Campbellton, New Brunswick, we are off to Halifax, Nova Scotia for a week. I Joined the Navy in 1969 and was posted to Halifax after basic training and was on the HMCS Terra Nova. I was then transfered to Esquiltmalt on the HMCS Terra Nova in 1971 and remained out here till now. I t will be nice to see this city again but this time, geocaching is on the agenda.
My intention is to start up this blog once every two to three weeks going forward and after each big adventure or during the adventure.
My Geocaching finds are at 18,926 and my goal for the year has been to reach 20,000 finds.
On August 27/16, I have organized a fild trip for Cougar Kid and I. At 0600 hours we fly out of Nanaimo Airport for Calgary, renting a car and caching to Medicine Hat, remaining there for 5 days caching all the Geo Art that has built up in this area. On the 6th day we will cache our way to Lethbridge for two days to cache some trails there as well as going to Montana if we can cross over with the rental car for a few trails in two small towns there. On the 8th day we will head back to Calgary, again caching along the way and then do the Flames Geo art and more if time permits.
I am having an event on August 28 to celebrate Couga Kid,s birthday. https://coord.info/GC6MF52
and one in Lethbridge on September 02, https://coord.info/GC6P1W6.
If anyone wishes to leave a birthday wish for Cougar Kid (AKA Bob), add a coment before the date and I will pass on your comments at the event.
This should be a great Geocaching Adventure for both of us, a much needed rest and our intention is to try and get about 200 caches a day.
I will blog each night about our days adventure and look forward to your comments.
Geocaching My way of Life Paulboy
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