As the clock is ticking down, we are getting closer to arriving in Vegas to start our Adventure.
This past weekend, a milestone was reached by one of our CIA team members, Cougar Kid.
Princess! and I met him at Witchcraft Lake in Nanaimo to grab two new caches and on the first cache, he completed his Geocalander, there by allowing him to grab the 365/366 cache in the near future. Congats on your milestone. Cougar Kid has decided to wait on the finding 365/366 cache as this coming weekend, I will reach my milestone 365/366 Geocalander as well. Then when we get back from the CIA Adventure we will find this cache together.
A fellow cacher asked if we would be doing some night caching while we were there. I do not know if we will do any while driving yet, but it looks like we will be some at/near and around the hotels we are staying at in Alamo, Rachael, Tonopah and Vegas. How many will depand on how tired we are. Stay tuned for daily updates as we begin our adventure. Geocaching My Way of Life...Paulboy
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Monday, 21 January 2013
CIA Director
Now that we have our date for the CIA Adventure, I started with the itinerary for our 6 day road trip. All the team made their arrangements to get to Las Vegas, some travelling on their own and others in teams. We all arrive in Las Vegas on the 5th Feb. That seemed to be the easy part. Then I booked the hotels for all of us in Alamo, Racheal and Tonapah. Mini vans were rented.
The itinerary consisted of a list of what we all needed, what times we would leave in the morning and return to the hotels at night. From there I decided that we are so close and if time permits we will all drive to do Route 66 in California on the 6th day. This may prove to be our longest day but time will tell.
Once the vans are picked up at the airport, Cougar Kid will pick up some of the team while a few of us head out to buy extra gas cans and gas along with water, first aid, ice coolers and food for the team.
Once we have all arrived and in the hotel, Shadowcaster of The GO! Team has put on an event and to date many of the local cachers are attending as well as Clay4 who is the CO of the ET Highway. Looking forward to starting off our adventure with an event.
On Jan. 19, I hosted an event in Ladysmith where almost 60 cachers attended to meet and greet and chat about the CIA Adventure. Diraduck and Two Grands informed us of a fellow cacher and friend that was ill and needed our help so a fun raiser was very successful.
The big question was how many caches will we do per day. Well that will have to wait as we have no idea at this time but you can all read about it once the adventure begins.
As I emailed out different information to the team, I mentioned that I sounded like a General in the Army and I was reminded the by seekandsail that the head of the CIA is the Director, not a General.
It is always strange how these titles come about. Only 15 days to go. Paulboy
The itinerary consisted of a list of what we all needed, what times we would leave in the morning and return to the hotels at night. From there I decided that we are so close and if time permits we will all drive to do Route 66 in California on the 6th day. This may prove to be our longest day but time will tell.
Once the vans are picked up at the airport, Cougar Kid will pick up some of the team while a few of us head out to buy extra gas cans and gas along with water, first aid, ice coolers and food for the team.
Once we have all arrived and in the hotel, Shadowcaster of The GO! Team has put on an event and to date many of the local cachers are attending as well as Clay4 who is the CO of the ET Highway. Looking forward to starting off our adventure with an event.
On Jan. 19, I hosted an event in Ladysmith where almost 60 cachers attended to meet and greet and chat about the CIA Adventure. Diraduck and Two Grands informed us of a fellow cacher and friend that was ill and needed our help so a fun raiser was very successful.
The big question was how many caches will we do per day. Well that will have to wait as we have no idea at this time but you can all read about it once the adventure begins.
As I emailed out different information to the team, I mentioned that I sounded like a General in the Army and I was reminded the by seekandsail that the head of the CIA is the Director, not a General.
It is always strange how these titles come about. Only 15 days to go. Paulboy
Sunday, 20 January 2013
How the CIA came about
Since I started caching on July 27, 2010 I soon I begin to hear about the ET Highway and once I got my bearing, I started to look at the caches in that area and thought that I would do that Highway some day.
About 10 months ago I thought I would put a team together and see if I could make this a reality. I spoke to Cougar Kid and Shadowcaster of The GO! Team and then bigbluemarble and JuRuu and picked a date. I also had 4 other cachers that were interested but with new jobs and work, it was a problem for them so they decided to not go.
Now that we had a team, I came up with the name Canadian Island Aliens and then it all came together, Area 51- CIA and our name was born. We decided that it would be a great idea to have t-shirts made.
A week later I got and email from Shadowcaster that he had designed a pathtag for all of us and after a few emails back and forth, he had it all done and ordered. Now we also had a design for our t-shirts.
A fellow cacher told me seekandsail was interested in going and after a few emails, he was on board as well. I did some caching for a day in Campbell river with crkayker and after telling her what I was planning and a few more emails, she was on board. Now were were 8 but then Shadowcaster said that his dad just started caching and he was interested as well. Now we are a team of nine and we are complete.
This CIA adveture is now slated for begin on Feb.06 2013 in Vegas at 0600 hours.
More info about the prep and details will follow in a few days.
About 10 months ago I thought I would put a team together and see if I could make this a reality. I spoke to Cougar Kid and Shadowcaster of The GO! Team and then bigbluemarble and JuRuu and picked a date. I also had 4 other cachers that were interested but with new jobs and work, it was a problem for them so they decided to not go.
Now that we had a team, I came up with the name Canadian Island Aliens and then it all came together, Area 51- CIA and our name was born. We decided that it would be a great idea to have t-shirts made.
A week later I got and email from Shadowcaster that he had designed a pathtag for all of us and after a few emails back and forth, he had it all done and ordered. Now we also had a design for our t-shirts.
A fellow cacher told me seekandsail was interested in going and after a few emails, he was on board as well. I did some caching for a day in Campbell river with crkayker and after telling her what I was planning and a few more emails, she was on board. Now were were 8 but then Shadowcaster said that his dad just started caching and he was interested as well. Now we are a team of nine and we are complete.
This CIA adveture is now slated for begin on Feb.06 2013 in Vegas at 0600 hours.
More info about the prep and details will follow in a few days.
Introduction
This is my first attempt at setting up a blog and my first post. I will be posting a blog about our CIA adventure and how it came about in a few days with regular updates daily on our adventure.
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