My Adventures and Places Life Takes Me: Eatonville, Wash. and a FTF

Saturday, February 23

Eatonville, Wash. and a FTF

I got a wake up call around 8:30 from Bev asking if I wanted to go to Eatonville with them. There have been a few new ones pop up in the past few days. I said sure. She said they would be there between 9:30 and 9:45. That gave me about a half hour, forty five minutes more to sleep.

My alarm went off and I immediately ran a query, put my clothes on and found something to eat. They rolled up in the drive way and Bev came in wanting to see our baby chickens. "They are sooo cute!" Haha.

We drove off and headed to Eatonville. We really didn't have a plan so we just went with whichever one was closest.

We started off with A Quick Stop, one of the new ones that popped up last night. Bev found it easily. We moved further up the road and found a pull out to Green is My Favorite Color and started looking. The coords jumped all over the place. A few minutes into our search and a car pulls up behind us. I told Bev, I think that's hoppingcrow.

And it was. I always thought we would meet her in person some day.

We found the cache together, made some light conversation and then went on our separate ways.

We finally finished the Mario Toadstool caches. We did a few of them over a year ago (Jan '12) and now finishing the multi. The first wp gave us a hard time but we managed to find it. The second wp wasn't too bad, I finally made the grab and the final was pretty easy.

We tried looking for a multi nearby that hasn't been found in almost a year. We gave it a good search and had to abandon it for another time.

We went back towards town trying to figure out how to get to a cache we've had trouble with twice now. We couldn't figure it out and Bev had to go use the restroom. I got online to try and figure it out. Bev came back and one just published about 5 miles from here in the town of Alder. We had to hurry because we knew the locals would be on this like a fat kid on a cupcake.

We arrived to the site and saw hoppingcrow with the container. We were hoping she would let us CO-FTF it. A few seconds later another vehicle pulls up, it was K2D2 and Stupendous Man. We all CO-FTF'd it together. We chatted with them for a bit and asked them about the multi. They gave us some good insight. We went to the next few along the lake.

We went to the other new ones by Pioneer Woman. We found them pretty quickly and visited with everyone while searching. K2D2 and his son went to another one while hoppingcrow and our car headed to another one of the new caches. We found that one quickly and found out hoppingcrow used to live in Rainier next to the Coffee's Ranch. It's such a small world. We said our goodbye's and went to the next one on our way back into town. It was on a pullout next to where hillbillies and rednecks throw out their trash. Why can't they take the time to go to the effing dump! You still have to load it up and transport it, why not take it to the dump instead of ruining our environment with your garbage! Will twenty bucks really break you? You spend it on cigarettes and beer anyway? Geez.

We found the cache and went back into town. We asked K2D2 and Stupendous Man how to get to Mini Land Mayhem and they said it was up on the hill. That made sense. We were up there last time we were here looking for one of the Mario Toadstool caches. It was that new housing development that over looked the town. We drove up there, parked the car and found it quickly next to a large stump.

The next one was Tunneling to China, one I've had coords for in my notebook for a while. I am not sure who I got them from. I know I didn't solve them. We went to the coords and it took us to someone's front yard. We read the cache page again and saw that Ben and Jayme were the last people that found it. Bev had their phone number so we asked them for help. They were very nice and helped us out with what we did wrong. We actually weren't that far off. We just needed to go to a different road. We plugged them into the Nuvi and we were on our way. We parked the car nearby and Bev found it quickly. One more of our puzzles we can cross off the notebook list.

We didn't have anymore in town, well Bob and Bev didn't, so we headed back out of town to try that multi we failed on the first time again. We were equipt with a little bit more knowledge about it and we went for it again. It still took us to that same darn tree on the corner. The hint, shrub was so wrong. There were no shrubs around. No wonder everyone had a hard time with wp1. We kept at it until Bev said, I found it! We were shocked and felt stupid at the same time. We should have seen it there the first time. We wrote down the coords and trekked off towards the final. We knew it would be down the logging road, we just didn't know how far down. It was a little less than a half a mile. I saw there was another one along the way, Owl Be Seeing You.

We found the final to the multi and then grabbed the owl one in the woods off of the road. Bob and Bev had gotten the owl one about a year ago. We got into the woods and the coords were a bit jumpy. It saw us before we saw it. It was hard to get the container out of the owl.