Time to update my faithful few readers about my trip home from bash last Sunday. Got up, made scrambled eggs on my pocket rocket stove for breakfast. The only trouble was, I filled the pan too full (wanted to use up the egg beaters) and ended up tipping it when it was half cooked. Egg all over the camping table. Cleaned it up and thankfully was left with enough egg to have a decent breakfast. Next was time to pack up and head out. While packing up the table, discovered that egg had seeped down between the cracks and under the table. So even more of a mess, now partially dry....but got 'er done and everything packed.
Caching along the way was definitely on the agenda. Started out with a few cemetery caches in Fulton County, then a couple of bridge guard rail caches. Then went toward one called "Pebbles" and discovered an 11 cache series, Flintstones themed and all were hidden under rocks. They were pretty much a tenth of a mile apart on this little country road. Stop where you see the pull off (from so many people caching in the area over the weekend) and follow the geo-trail and make the quick find. Get back in the car and repeat. Once I was done with that, meandered my way back up to the Michigan border where there was a cache called "Welcome to Michigan?" hidden in the "Welcome to Ohio" sign! More cemetery caches and a few others along the way as I headed north on 127. Stopped at a McDonald's in Hudson to cool off for a while and use the wifi.
Had hoped to do a series in Mason (south of Lansing) that was fish themed - part of an event that happens every spring there. After two caches (and discovering that the park that many of the caches were in was being taken over by the upcoming county fair) I decided it was just too hot to go "fishing" and decided to just head for a cache in Ionia County that I'd been wanting to do. It was a historic caches challenge where I needed to find 5 out of 7 of the oldest caches in the county. I'd done six of them way back when I first started caching so easily qualified. Got that cache then decided to head north to Ionia and make another attempt at the failed FTF as it still hadn't been logged and the owners had given me info on its probable whereabouts.
Got there, started counting trees, got to the right tree and had to laugh as there was a wooden stake right in front of the right tree. And I found the cache pretty quickly. Someone had found the cache the day before but was giving me credit for the FTF still - so I gave him credit for a shared FTF.
Home about 7:00 - an 8 1/2 hour trip, 120 miles as the crow flies. Nobody home and all vehicles were there. Found out later that Steve and Eric had gone to a movie together.
So a nice weekend was had by all.
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