Geocaching I-90 Eastbound

Derek's sister and his dad got a few free tickets to the WSU Cougars game against the Idaho State Bengals.  This was one of our games where we were suppose to blow out the other team.  We've been bad for over five years now so anything was possible.

I got up early, like I always do on Fridays, went to work and did a few chores afterwards.   We got home at a decent time so I continued to get my stuff ready and still had some time to make macaroni and cheese for me and my mom.  He wasn't able to get out of work as early as he liked so we left later than anticipated.  I drove up to Lacey and unloaded my car and put my stuff in his car and we were off.

Traffic was awful getting to Hwy 18.  It took us forever.  Once on Hwy 18, it was smooth sailing to I-90.  We tried to get some mileage behind us since we were going to get to Spokane really late as it was.  The first stop was after Vantage at the horses.  We wanted to do the challenge.  We had to write the date on a piece of paper and pretend like we were riding it.  It was a good time.  We already got the cache that was up here a few months back.  We walked back down to the car.

Our next stop was in George, Washington...a small town nestled along I-90.  We stopped and did the challenge there.  We were to take a picture with the George Washington head statue.

While we were there we decided to get a few caches that were in town.  One was called George, Washington (GC112N7).  It was dedicated to the 4th of July celebration that the small town had every year.  We found it inside a tiny park.  We had to be careful because there were some kids running around.  We found the small micro near a building.

From there, we went down the road to the next one on the list, Martha's Inn (GC28H2C).  The Inn was opened in 1958 for travelers who needed a pit stop.  It was torn down but never forgotten.  We found the green micro cache in the nearby tree.  It was hard to see in the dark but we prevailed!

And for the last one, because it was getting late and it was literally the last cache in town, The Sign (GC28T6T).  That one was tricky.  At that point I had only seen this kind of hide one other time.  We wandered around thinking it was a magnetic hide and then I got an idea.  The hose that was wrapped around it.  I unscrewed the two ends and there it was!

We got back in the car and our next stop was Moses Lake for some dinner.  Since it was late the only places open were the fast food restaurants amongst the gas stations.  We chose Burger King because it was cheap and near a cache.  We ate our food and then went and got Gemini One (GC2X99C).  It was hidden on a power line sheath.  

We got gas and back onto I-90 east towards Spokane.  We finally saw the lights of Spokane around 10:15.  We drove out to his mom and dad's house south of Spokane.  There, we unpacked the car, logged our finds and got ready for bed.  I got the bed downstairs in the basement.  I got my computer connected to the WiFi and logged my finds and challenges.  Then I passed out.  It was a long day.

Next Adventure:  WSU vs. Idaho State, Caching and Clarkston